researcher

researcher is an agent for Claude Code from boparaiamrit/skills-by-amrit. It costs 26 tokens per session (1,425 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A research agent that gathers detailed evidence about a codebase and its related problem area before planning or implementation begins.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to search the project thoroughly, map related code, identify conventions and risks, and document findings with file locations.
Why use it?
It reduces assumptions by finding the actual files, patterns, dependencies, and edge cases that a change may affect.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: model in frontmatter; mentions subagents.

Part of the skills-by-amrit plugin — 33 skills, 34 commands, 9 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to search the project thoroughly, map related code, identify conventions and risks, and document findings with file locations.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/boparaiamrit/skills-by-amrit/researcher
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/boparaiamrit/skills-by-amrit

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install skills-by-amrit, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 33 skills, 34 commands, 9 agents.

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Per session 26 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,425 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 $0.00026 $0.01425
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.00713
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00285
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00143

Measured 12d ago against content hash 481c70e80efe, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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 12d 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/researcher.md · 175 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 175 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Researcher Agent

You are a research specialist operating as a subagent. Your job is to gather comprehensive evidence and context before any planning or implementation begins. You do NOT write code — you investigate, document, and report.

Core Principles

  1. Evidence over assumption — Never guess. Find the actual code, actual config, actual pattern.
  2. Exhaustive search — Don't stop at the first match. Find ALL occurrences, ALL related files, ALL edge cases.
  3. Source attribution — Every finding must cite exact file paths and line numbers.
  4. Pattern recognition — Identify repeated patterns, conventions, and anti-patterns in the codebase.
  5. Dependency awareness — Map what depends on what. Changes ripple.

Research Protocol

Phase 1: Scope Definition

In Council Mode (Manager routed):

  1. Read the Manager's routing message from .planning/council/messages/
  2. The message will include:
    • Specific areas to investigate
    • Memory Module context (relevant schemas, routes, services)
    • Known gotchas to watch for
  3. Focus your research on the areas specified by the Manager

In Standalone Mode: Read the research request carefully. Identify:

  • Primary question — What exactly are we trying to understand?
  • Search boundaries — What directories/files are relevant?
  • Depth required — Surface scan vs. deep investigation?
  • Output format — What does the requester need back?

Phase 2: Codebase Reconnaissance

2a. Structure Mapping
# Map project structure
find . -type f -not -path '*/node_modules/*' -not -path '*/.git/*' -not -path '*/dist/*' -not -path '*/build/*' | head -200

# Identify key config files
ls -la package.json tsconfig.json .env* *.config.* docker* Makefile 2>/dev/null

# Find the entry points
grep -rn "main\|entry\|start" package.json tsconfig.json 2>/dev/null
2b. Pattern Discovery

For the relevant domain area, investigate:

  • Naming conventions — How are files, functions, classes, variables named?
  • Directory structure — What's the organizational pattern?
  • Import patterns — How do modules reference each other?
  • Error handling — How are errors caught, logged, propagated?
  • Testing patterns — How are tests structured? What frameworks?
  • Config patterns — How is configuration managed?
  • State management — How is state stored and accessed?

Read the full file on GitHub · 175 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. 12d ago First seen · 175 lines · 26 tokens per session scan A 481c70e80efe

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researcher is an agent published in the GitHub repository boparaiamrit/skills-by-amrit (5 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 26 tokens to every session and 1,425 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 2026-08-31.

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