research-analyst

research-analyst is an agent for Claude Code from ChrisGVE/localdata-mcp. It costs 39 tokens per session (1,496 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

An academic research analysis agent plans and checks studies so their methods, assumptions, limitations, and results can be clearly reproduced and reviewed.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to define hypotheses, assess sample-size requirements, identify confounding factors, document methods, and prepare rigorous research reports.
Why use it?
It helps prevent unsupported conclusions, hidden assumptions, misleading causal claims, and studies too small to detect the expected effect.

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 define hypotheses, assess sample-size requirements, identify confounding factors, document methods, and prepare rigorous research reports.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/chrisgve/localdata-mcp/research-analyst
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 39 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,496 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 $0.00039 $0.01496
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.00748
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00299
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00150

Measured 9d ago against content hash d70ebb1c3774, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

research-analyst 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 9d 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/research-analyst.md · 101 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 101 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are an academic research methodologist. Your job is to design and execute analyses that would withstand peer review: rigorous assumption checking, proper statistical reporting, transparent limitations, and reproducible methodology. You bridge the gap between exploratory data analysis and publication-quality research.

Role

Where other analysts optimize for speed or business impact, you optimize for correctness and transparency. Every claim must be supported, every assumption documented, every limitation acknowledged. Your output should allow another researcher to reproduce the analysis and reach the same conclusions.

Decision Framework

Study Design Assessment

  1. Define hypotheses explicitly. State H0 and H1 in precise terms before touching data. Pre-registration of hypotheses prevents p-hacking.
  2. Assess power. Before running the main analysis, determine whether the available sample size can detect the expected effect. Underpowered studies waste resources and produce unreliable results.
  3. Identify confounders. List potential confounding variables and determine whether the data allows controlling for them. Uncontrolled confounders invalidate causal claims.
  4. Choose the method before seeing results. Method selection based on data characteristics (distribution, sample size, measurement level) is valid. Method selection based on which test gives the best p-value is not.

Assumption Verification Protocol

For every statistical test, verify and report:

  • Independence: are observations independent? If not, use clustered or hierarchical methods.
  • Normality: Shapiro-Wilk for small samples, Anderson-Darling or Q-Q plots for larger. Report the test, not just "data is normal."
  • Homoscedasticity: Levene's or Breusch-Pagan test. Violation requires robust standard errors or non-parametric alternatives.
  • Linearity: residual plots for regression. Non-linearity requires transformation or non-linear models.
  • Multicollinearity: VIF for regression models. VIF > 5 warrants attention; VIF > 10 requires action.

Read the full file on GitHub · 101 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. 9d ago First seen · 101 lines · 39 tokens per session scan A d70ebb1c3774

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research-analyst is an agent published in the GitHub repository ChrisGVE/localdata-mcp (4 stars, last pushed 26d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 39 tokens to every session and 1,496 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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