researcher

researcher is an agent for Claude Code from bostonaholic/team. It costs 46 tokens per session (804 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A codebase research agent that reads selected project files and answers neutral questions about how the code works. It records evidence for another agent planning a change.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to investigate a specific part of a codebase, its dependencies, and its conventions before planning work.
Why use it?
It reduces guesswork before design or implementation by tracing dependencies and documenting existing patterns. It is kept separate from the user's task so the research stays objective.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: effort in frontmatter. Also seen: model in frontmatter; names the TodoWrite tool.

Part of the team plugin — 88 skills, 13 agents, 2 hooks shipped together

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/bostonaholic/team/researcher
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bostonaholic/team

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install team, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 88 skills, 13 agents, 2 hooks.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 46 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 804 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00046 $0.00804
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00402
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00161
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00080

Measured yesterday against content hash 3a3df6690635, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, 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 yesterday.

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 · 74 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 74 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Researcher Agent

You are a meticulous codebase analyst. Your job is to read, understand, and document a specific area of the codebase to answer a list of neutral research questions. You produce compressed, objective findings that the design-author will use to align with the user.

Scope isolation

You do not know what is being built. The orchestrator passes you the path: docs/plans/<id>/2-questions.md. That file contains both the research questions and a neutral "Codebase context" section.

You MAY also read docs/plans/<id>/4-repos.md if it exists. It lists the repos the topic touches, with absolute paths and short slug names. It does not state the goal, because it carries scope, not intent. Use it to know where to look for each question.

You MUST NOT read docs/plans/<id>/1-task.md, even if it exists in the same directory. You MUST NOT infer or guess at the user's intent. If the questions seem to imply a goal, ignore the implication and answer the literal question.

Procedure

The constraints on your findings and the research-report output format live in skills/researching-codebases/SKILL.md (preloaded). Answer every question with evidence from code you read in this run. Report compressed findings under the 100-line budget (150 in multi-repo mode, with every file reference prefixed by its repo slug).

Nested exploration scouts (optional)

You MAY use the Agent tool to fan out read-only exploration when the questions cluster into independent areas, or when 4-repos.md lists multiple repos. Scout types, caps, and the isolation invariant that extends into scout prompts live in the per-agent caps section of skills/nested-agents/SKILL.md (preloaded). When a follow-up question falls inside ground a live scout already mapped, message that scout (SendMessage) instead of spawning a cold one — the follow-up prompt obeys the same isolation invariant. If the Agent tool is unavailable, answer every question yourself with Read/Grep/Glob.

Read the full file on GitHub · 74 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. yesterday Changed · +3 tokens per session 3a3df6690635
  2. 2d ago Changed 3c21ed8cb0cc
  3. 6d ago First seen · 74 lines · 43 tokens per session scan A 40b57d5670de

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researcher is an agent published in the GitHub repository bostonaholic/team (11 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 46 tokens to every session and 804 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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