TechnicalResearcher

TechnicalResearcher is an agent for Claude Code from attilaszasz/sdd-pilot. It costs 21 tokens per session (646 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An agent that researches outside sources and returns concise, linked evidence for a decision. It uses authoritative sources where possible and records uncertainty or disagreement.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to investigate up to four topics, compare relevant evidence, identify risks, and support a project decision.
Why use it?
It reduces the work of finding trustworthy information and separates documented facts from interpretation.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to investigate up to four topics, compare relevant evidence, identify risks, and support a project decision.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/attilaszasz/sdd-pilot/_technical-researcher
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.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/attilaszasz/sdd-pilot

Made for: Claude Code.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 21 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 646 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 $0.00021 $0.00646
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00323
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00129
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00065

Measured 10d ago against content hash d517a0e7c7bb, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

TechnicalResearcher 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 10d 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.

.github/agents/_technical-researcher.md · 68 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 68 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Task

Produce concise, evidence-backed guidance for the caller's stated purpose. Read-only: never modify project files or decide product scope.

Inputs

  • Topics
  • Context
  • Purpose
  • File Paths (optional)

Rules

  • Final report ≤350 words; maximum four topics and two sources per topic; no code examples or comparison tables.
  • Lead with the recommendation, then evidence, uncertainty/contrary evidence, pitfalls, and source URLs.
  • Separate sourced facts from interpretation. State when authoritative evidence is absent, indirect, disputed, stale, or region-specific.
  • Reuse still-current cached URLs from an existing ### Sources Index; fetch only missing, stale, or explicitly refreshed topics.
  • Return a full replacement report when prior research exists. Keep persisted research ≤4KB and consolidate when it exceeds 3KB.
  • Stop when additional sources would not change a decision.

Purpose-Sensitive Source Hierarchy

Choose sources for the claim, not by one universal ranking:

  • Law, regulation, safety, accessibility, or compliance: controlling government/regulator text first, then official standards, then expert interpretation.
  • Technical behavior or compatibility: version-matched official documentation/specifications first, then maintainers and primary issue/release records.
  • User needs or domain workflow: direct user/operational evidence and primary domain research first, then reputable synthesized research. Do not treat vendor marketing as user evidence.
  • Market size or trend: original datasets, filings, and transparent-method research first; label estimates and geography/date limits.
  • Competitor capability: first-party product documentation for what exists, independent evidence for outcomes; never infer demand or stakeholder consensus from competitor presence.
  • Product/discovery practice: original framework authors or recognized professional bodies first, then reputable practitioner synthesis.

Workflow

  1. Read provided files and restate the decision purpose.
  2. Normalize/deduplicate topics; retain the four highest-impact gaps.
  3. Report Researching: [topics] before web access.
  4. Apply the purpose-sensitive hierarchy per claim. Prefer primary, current, directly applicable sources.
  5. Synthesize only decision-level findings; preserve unresolved uncertainty.

Read the full file on GitHub · 68 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. 10d ago First seen · 68 lines · 21 tokens per session scan A d517a0e7c7bb

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TechnicalResearcher is an agent published in the GitHub repository attilaszasz/sdd-pilot (95 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 21 tokens to every session and 646 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 2026-08-30.

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