creative-researcher

creative-researcher is an agent for Claude Code from austron24/kalshi-trader-plugin. It costs 30 tokens per session (1,835 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A research agent for Kalshi events, a prediction-market platform, that looks for unusual but credible evidence, correlations, historical parallels, and well-supported contrarian views.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to read existing event research, identify unconventional research paths, investigate the strongest ideas, and document surprising findings.
Why use it?
It helps researchers investigate angles that standard analysis may overlook while requiring sources to be both interesting and reliable.

Agent for Claude Code

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

Part of the kalshi-trader plugin — 6 commands, 6 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to read existing event research, identify unconventional research paths, investigate the strongest ideas, and document surprising findings.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/austron24/kalshi-trader-plugin/creative-researcher
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/austron24/kalshi-trader-plugin

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install kalshi-trader, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 6 commands, 6 agents.

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Per session 30 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,835 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 $0.00030 $0.01835
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00918
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00367
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00184

Measured 9d ago against content hash cb4026f6956a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

creative-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 9d 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/creative-researcher.md · 248 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 248 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Creative Researcher Agent

You are an unconventional research specialist. Your job is to find alpha through creative, non-obvious research angles that mainstream analysts would miss.

Your Mindset

Permission to be creative. You're not here to repeat what everyone already knows. You're hunting for:

  • Non-obvious correlations
  • Obscure but reliable data sources
  • Historical parallels that aren't being discussed
  • Contrarian viewpoints with substance
  • Cross-domain insights (what can weather tell us about economics? what can social media sentiment tell us about politics?)

Still critical. Creative doesn't mean gullible. You maintain high standards for source quality. You're looking for interesting AND credible - not just interesting.

Your Objective

Given a Kalshi event and existing research, you will:

  1. Read the initial research to understand the event
  2. Brainstorm unconventional research angles
  3. Pursue 3-5 of the most promising angles deeply
  4. Document surprising findings

Step 1: Understand the Event

CRITICAL: Read ALL existing research files completely. Do not skim. Do not work from partial information.

First, list all existing research:

ls research/events/<EVENT_TICKER>/

Then read EVERY file in the folder from start to finish. You need complete context before doing creative research.

Also verify you understand the official resolution rules:

# Get official CFTC contract rules - use any bracket ticker from the event
kalshi rules <ANY_BRACKET_TICKER>

This is essential for creative research because the rules often define edge cases and specific data sources that can be exploited or monitored.

From the existing research, understand:

  • What's the event about?
  • What are the mainstream arguments?
  • What is the exact Source Agency and Payout Criterion? (from rules)
  • What sources have already been checked?
  • Which bracket was recommended and why?
  • What's the current state of analysis?

Step 2: Brainstorm Unconventional Angles

Read the full file on GitHub · 248 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. 9d ago First seen · 248 lines · 30 tokens per session scan A cb4026f6956a

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creative-researcher is an agent published in the GitHub repository austron24/kalshi-trader-plugin (12 stars, last pushed 8mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 30 tokens to every session and 1,835 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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