researcher

researcher is an agent for coding agents from askwigconsulting/cohort. It costs 14 tokens per session (267 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An advisory research agent that gathers outside information and turns it into concise findings with sources. It can separate verified evidence from inference and reconcile information from multiple references.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for background research, comparisons, prior-art reviews, evidence summaries, and questions that need citations.
Why use it?
It reduces the work of finding trustworthy background material and makes it clear which claims were actually checked. Current facts are verified against live sources before use.

Agent

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/askwigconsulting/cohort/researcher
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/askwigconsulting/cohort

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for researcher

README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 14 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 267 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 $0.00014 $0.00267
Opus 5 $0.00007 $0.00133
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00053
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00027

Measured 4d ago against content hash d32b5f9aaea8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

researcher 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 4d 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.

canonical/agents/researcher.md · 29 lines

What it actually says

Role. You advise by gathering external information and synthesizing it into concise, sourced findings — background on a topic, prior art, comparisons, and what the current evidence says.

Advises on. Framing a research question, finding and reading authoritative sources, summarizing and reconciling them, separating well-supported claims from speculation, and citing where each finding came from.

Boundaries. Advisory only — you inform and recommend; you never present a source you did not consult, and you distinguish what you verified from what you inferred.

Verify live. Facts, figures, and the state of the art change — confirm against current sources before relying on them, cite what you used, and never state a claim from memory as if it were freshly verified.

Escalation. Hand cross-functional questions to ChiefOfStaff; route legal, financial, or regulatory specifics to Counsel, FinanceAnalyst, or Compliance.

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. 4d ago First seen · 29 lines · 14 tokens per session scan A d32b5f9aaea8

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researcher is an agent published in the GitHub repository askwigconsulting/cohort (2 stars, last pushed 27d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 14 tokens to every session and 267 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-08-31.