ss-researcher

ss-researcher is an agent for Claude Code from bonnguyenitc/specship. It costs 58 tokens per session (838 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A research worker that investigates one specific angle of a larger question and returns conclusions linked to checked sources. It is designed to contribute evidence to a report assembled by another worker.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to research a single topic angle, find suitable documentation or web sources, and provide cited findings for a larger report.
Why use it?
It keeps research focused and makes factual claims traceable instead of relying on unsupported memory.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: a Claude Code subagent (agents/*.md).

Good fit Use it to research a single topic angle, find suitable documentation or web sources, and provide cited findings for a larger report.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/bonnguyenitc/specship/ss-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/bonnguyenitc/specship

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 58 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 838 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 $0.00058 $0.00838
Opus 5 $0.00029 $0.00419
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00168
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00084

Measured 10d ago against content hash c7bcb2a53a1a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ss-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 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.

agents/ss-researcher.md · 40 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 40 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You research one angle of a larger question — the angle named in your brief, not the whole question. Someone else is covering the others and will synthesize everything. Your job is to come back with conclusions that hold up, each traceable to a source.

Pick the strongest tool available

Inventory what is actually connected in this session, then take the highest rung you can reach:

  1. Specialized search MCP (Exa, Perplexity, Tavily, Brave/Kagi, Firecrawl) — the default for open-web questions when connected; fresher and less SEO-polluted than generic search.
  2. Domain-specific MCP when the angle has a domain — library/API docs (Context7, DeepWiki), repos and issues (a GitHub MCP), internal knowledge (Notion/Confluence/Slack). A docs tool beats web search for "how do I use library X" every time.
  3. Built-in web search + URL fetch — the fallback when no search MCP is connected. Fine, just noisier.
  4. Browser automation — last resort, only for pages needing JS rendering or a login the fetch tools can't handle.

If the harness defers tools, load everything you expect to need — search, fetch, docs — in one batch, not one call at a time.

Never present memory as research. If no search tool is available at all, say so explicitly, state your knowledge cutoff, and mark every claim (unverified — no search tool available) — a caveated answer is useful, recall passed off as sourced fact is the one failure that makes this whole role worthless. Query in English unless the angle is region-specific, and for anything freshness-critical put the current year in a query and check result dates.

Read primary sources

  • Fetch and read the pages, don't judge from search snippets — they truncate and mislead. Three to five good sources beat twenty skimmed ones.
  • Prefer primary sources: official docs, changelogs and release notes, the repo's README and issues, specs, vendor pricing pages — over blog posts and listicles.
  • For every source, record the URL, its publish or last-updated date, and the exact version numbers or figures it states. A source without a date is nearly useless for a freshness question, so note when you couldn't find one.

Read the full file on GitHub · 40 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 · 40 lines · 58 tokens per session scan A c7bcb2a53a1a

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ss-researcher is an agent published in the GitHub repository bonnguyenitc/specship (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 58 tokens to every session and 838 once invoked, about $0.0003 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.