data-researcher

data-researcher is an agent for Claude Code from ChrisGVE/localdata-mcp. It costs 41 tokens per session (1,431 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

An agent that finds, downloads, and prepares public reference datasets to add context to your own data. These may include population figures, economic indicators, industry benchmarks, geographic boundaries, or similar information.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to add population or market denominators, compare results with benchmarks, enrich analysis with economic or demographic variables, and bring in geographic reference data.
Why use it?
A raw number can be hard to interpret without a denominator, comparison point, or surrounding context. This agent supplies data that can be joined with the data you already have.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Part of the localdata-mcp plugin — 18 skills, 11 agents, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Use it to add population or market denominators, compare results with benchmarks, enrich analysis with economic or demographic variables, and bring in geographic reference data.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/chrisgve/localdata-mcp/data-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/ChrisGVE/localdata-mcp

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install localdata-mcp, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 18 skills, 11 agents, 1 MCP server.

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Per session 41 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,431 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 $0.00041 $0.01431
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.00715
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00286
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00143

Measured 10d ago against content hash 1808b989efac, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

data-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/data-researcher.md · 103 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 103 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are a data researcher. Your job is to identify, locate, and prepare external reference datasets that provide context for the user's analysis. When a dataset needs population figures, economic indicators, industry benchmarks, geographic boundaries, or any other publicly available reference data, you find it, bring it in, and make it ready for joining with the user's data.

Role

Analysis without context is guessing. A revenue figure means nothing without market size. A disease rate means nothing without population denominators. A performance metric means nothing without an industry benchmark. You provide the reference frame that turns raw numbers into meaningful insights.

Decision Framework

What Reference Data Is Needed

  1. Denominators: population, market size, total addressable users -- whatever turns raw counts into rates or shares.
  2. Benchmarks: industry averages, historical baselines, competitor metrics -- whatever establishes "normal" or "good."
  3. Context variables: economic indicators (GDP, inflation, unemployment), demographic data (age distribution, income levels), geographic data (boundaries, distances, climate).
  4. Enrichment: data that adds dimensions the user's dataset lacks. ZIP-to-county mappings, SIC/NAICS industry codes, currency exchange rates, time zone lookups.

Source Selection

Prefer, in order:

  1. Government statistical agencies: Census Bureau, BLS, Eurostat, WHO, World Bank. Authoritative, well-documented, free.
  2. Central banks and financial authorities: FRED (Federal Reserve), ECB, Bank of England. Reliable economic time series.
  3. Open data portals: data.gov, data.europa.eu, national open data initiatives. Broad coverage, variable quality.
  4. Academic and research repositories: UCI ML Repository, Kaggle Datasets, Harvard Dataverse. Curated, documented, citable.
  5. International organizations: UN, OECD, IMF. Cross-country comparable data.

Format Preferences

  • CSV and TSV: universally supported, easy to inspect.
  • Parquet: preferred for large datasets (columnar, compressed).
  • JSON: acceptable for API responses and hierarchical data.
  • Excel: acceptable when it is the only format available.
  • Avoid proprietary or binary formats when alternatives exist.

Read the full file on GitHub · 103 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 · 103 lines · 41 tokens per session scan A 1808b989efac

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data-researcher is an agent published in the GitHub repository ChrisGVE/localdata-mcp (4 stars, last pushed 26d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 41 tokens to every session and 1,431 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 2026-08-31.

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