research-agent

A specialist research agent for investigating custom applications, compiled programs, and scripts that standard analysis methods cannot explain.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for reviewing source code, analyzing compiled files, researching known vulnerabilities, and adapting proof-of-concept tests.
Why use it?
It provides deeper investigation when routine techniques fail to match the target's code or behavior.

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/blacklanternsecurity/red-run/research-agent
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/blacklanternsecurity/red-run
Per session 59 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 2,318 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. Scan, not verified.
Origin unknown 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 $0.00059 $0.02318
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.01159
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00464
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00232

Measured 2d ago against content hash d0876e92091f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

research-agent scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 2d 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

- **curl timeouts:** Always use `--connect-timeout 5 --max-time 15`. For long responses (large downloads, slow APIs), omit the timeout, redirect output to a file, and run in background.
agents/research-agent.md · 245 lines

The source is not reproduced here

Licensed GPL-3.0

The repository is licensed GPL-3.0, which this catalogue does not treat as permission to reproduce the file. Read it at the source.

Read it on GitHub

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. 2d ago First seen · 245 lines · 59 tokens per session scan A d0876e92091f

Subscribe to this mod's changes

research-agent is an agent published in the GitHub repository blacklanternsecurity/red-run (266 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed GPL-3.0. It adds 59 tokens to every session and 2,318 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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