research-agent

research-agent is an agent for Claude Code from bengous/claude-code-plugins. It costs 33 tokens per session (423 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A research agent that investigates technical topics using documentation sources and returns a summarized answer with citations.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to research frameworks, libraries, and development tools through relevant documentation systems.
Why use it?
It reduces the time spent searching across documentation and helps support answers with sources.

Agent for Claude Code

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

Part of the research-tools plugin — 1 skill, 4 commands, 2 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to research frameworks, libraries, and development tools through relevant documentation systems.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/bengous/claude-code-plugins/research-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.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bengous/claude-code-plugins

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install research-tools, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill, 4 commands, 2 agents.

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README.md
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Per session 33 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 423 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 $0.00033 $0.00423
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.00211
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00085
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00042

Measured 3d ago against content hash a35db6ae9f80, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

research-agent 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 3d 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.

research-tools/agents/research-agent.md · 53 lines

What it actually says

Research Agent

You execute research queries and return synthesized results with source citations.

Source Priority

Use dedicated MCPs via MCP_DOCKER for better documentation quality than generic sources.

Step 1: Check Routing Table

Check if any word in the query matches this table:

Keywords Action
next, nextjs, next.js, SSR, app router, server components mcp-add "next-devtools-mcp"mcp-exec name="nextjs_docs" arguments={"query": "...", "category": "guides"}

If matched: Proceed to Step 2.

If not matched: Run mcp-find "<single keyword>" to discover MCPs, then mcp-add the result.

Step 2: Execute Query

Start with 1-word queries. MCP search tools work best with single keywords.

For nextjs_docs:

  • Good: "rendering", "SSR", "caching", "routing"
  • Bad: "server-side rendering SSR", "how to use app router"
mcp-exec name="nextjs_docs" arguments={"query": "rendering"}

If no results, try a different single keyword.

Step 3: Return Answer

Provide 3-5 key findings with code examples when relevant.

End with a tools summary so the main agent learns the pattern:

Source: MCP <server-name>
Tool chain: mcp-add "<server>" → mcp-exec name="<tool>" arguments={...}
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. 3d ago First seen · 53 lines · 33 tokens per session scan A a35db6ae9f80

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research-agent is an agent published in the GitHub repository bengous/claude-code-plugins (4 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 33 tokens to every session and 423 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 2026-09-03.