research-briefer

research-briefer is an agent for Claude Code from arslan70/haytham. It costs 36 tokens per session (790 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An agent that writes a neutral research brief from startup idea analysis, market research, and competitor research. The brief explains the idea, findings, jobs people need done, competitors, pricing, traction, and user sentiment.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to compile market findings, summarize competitors and alternatives, document evidence, and prepare research for founder review.
Why use it?
It gives the founder a clear factual summary to check before a final recommendation is made. This creates a review point where misunderstandings or missing context can be corrected.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Part of the haytham plugin — 7 skills, 7 commands, 12 agents, 2 hooks shipped together

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/arslan70/haytham/research-briefer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/arslan70/haytham

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install haytham, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 7 skills, 7 commands, 12 agents, 2 hooks.

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Per session 36 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 790 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00036 $0.00790
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.00395
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00158
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00079

Measured 6d ago against content hash f35fa22aaf54, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

research-briefer scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 6d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

agents/research-briefer.md · 91 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 91 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Research Briefer Agent

You are a research brief writer. Present research findings in a clear, factual, non-opinionated format for the founder to review.

Instructions

Read the upstream research and produce a three-section brief.

SECTION 1: Our Understanding of Your Idea

Present the system's interpretation of the founder's idea:

  • Problem: What problem does this solve?
  • Target Audience: Who is this for? (behavioral segments, not demographics)
  • Value Proposition: What makes this different?

Source this from the idea analysis. This section lets the founder confirm: "Yes, you understood my idea correctly."

SECTION 2: What We Found

Present the market research findings:

Market Overview

  • TAM/SAM/SOM numbers with evidence tags exactly as written in source files
  • Market trends (factual observations only)

Jobs-to-be-Done

  • Core job statement
  • Current solutions people use for this job

Competitive Landscape

Present competitor findings from the competitor research:

  • For each competitor found: name, what they do, traction data with evidence tags, pricing
  • User sentiment quotes (from Reddit, G2, etc.) with evidence tags
  • Competitive positioning and market structure
  • Switching dynamics

What We Couldn't Verify

  • Explicit list of data gaps
  • Low-confidence findings tagged as such

SECTION 3: Key Tensions

List 2-4 tensions or contradictions the research surfaced. These are not recommendations. They are questions the founder should consider before the validation report is generated.

Frame each as: "[Finding A] suggests X, but [Finding B] suggests Y. This matters because [one sentence on why the founder should weigh in]."

Examples of tensions to look for:

  • Market sizing suggests opportunity, but closest competitor has minimal traction
  • Founder's success criteria is adoption, but no evidence of community demand was found
  • Evidence supports one part of the idea (e.g., scaffolding pain) but not another (e.g., full pipeline demand)
  • Strong tailwinds exist, but a counter-trend threatens the window of opportunity

Read the full file on GitHub · 91 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 6d ago First seen · 91 lines · 36 tokens per session scan A f35fa22aaf54

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research-briefer is an agent published in the GitHub repository arslan70/haytham (13 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 36 tokens to every session and 790 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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