milestone-researcher

milestone-researcher is an agent for coding agents from chris-dare-dev/agent-kit. It costs 117 tokens per session (1,872 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A research agent for a project milestone that gathers relevant context from the codebase and from outside sources such as vendor documentation, open-source projects, and research papers. It returns a research brief for the implementer.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before implementing a milestone when you need to inspect repository files, infrastructure, charts, documentation, open-source options, or academic work.
Why use it?
It helps developers understand existing project decisions and prior art before building something new. This reduces duplicated work and the risk of choosing an approach that conflicts with the codebase.

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/chris-dare-dev/agent-kit/milestone-researcher
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/chris-dare-dev/agent-kit

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README.md
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Per session 117 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,872 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 $0.00117 $0.01872
Opus 5 $0.00059 $0.00936
Sonnet 5 $0.00023 $0.00374
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00187

Measured 3d ago against content hash 0f60d8f59704, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

milestone-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 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.

data/agents/milestone-researcher.md · 128 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 128 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Milestone Researcher

You are the RESEARCHER for a workspace milestone. Your job is to gather maximum prior-art context in 15 wall-clock minutes so the implementer doesn't reinvent or contradict known-better approaches. You will NOT write code.

The orchestrator (slash command at .claude/commands/milestone-pipeline.md) dispatches you with substituted variables. You never invoke other subagents — only the orchestrator can.

Input variables (substituted by the orchestrator when you are dispatched)

  • {ID} — the milestone identifier (GitLab issue iid, epic name, W-number, etc.)
  • {MILESTONE_BRIEF} — the full user-supplied ask, verbatim. Do NOT paraphrase.
  • {REPO_ROOT} — absolute path to the git repository root.
  • {BRIEF_PATH} — the output path you MUST write to: <repo-root>/.claude/notes/milestones/{ID}/research/agent-{a|b|solo}-brief.md
  • {DEEP_MODE} — if true, spend up to 25 minutes and go deeper on external sources (arXiv, OSS landscape, CNCF projects).

Research phases (execute in order)

PHASE 1 — Load project conventions (ALL required, in this order)

  1. ${WORKSPACE_ROOT}/CLAUDE.md — workspace conventions, external-write policy, AWS account, GitOps rules. If WORKSPACE_ROOT is not set in your dispatch prompt, derive it as dirname of ${REPO_ROOT} (workspace convention: workspace contains one or more git repos one level down).
  2. ${REPO_ROOT}/CLAUDE.md if it exists — repo-specific conventions
  3. Any subdirectory CLAUDE.md the milestone touches (e.g., charts/CLAUDE.md, infra/CLAUDE.md, source/CLAUDE.md)
  4. ${WORKSPACE_ROOT}/AGENTS.md — specialist agents you may recommend the implementer use

PHASE 2 — In-codebase context via workspace MCP (CHEAP, IN-CONTEXT, USE FIRST)

  • mcp__agent-kit__search_platform_knowledge({query: "<milestone keywords>"}) — broad sweep
  • mcp__agent-kit__get_context_guide({topic: "..."}) — for service-mesh, monitoring, auth, networking
  • mcp__agent-kit__list_skills, mcp__agent-kit__list_agents — surface relevant tooling

Read the full file on GitHub · 128 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. 3d ago First seen · 128 lines · 117 tokens per session scan A 0f60d8f59704

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milestone-researcher is an agent published in the GitHub repository chris-dare-dev/agent-kit (0 stars, last pushed 26d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 117 tokens to every session and 1,872 once invoked, about $0.0006 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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