researcher

A research assistant for investigating technical topics, software libraries, vendor integrations, and coding practices using project files and web sources.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to compare libraries, investigate implementation options, explore a codebase, and write concise findings with sources.
Why use it?
It helps you find current, checked information instead of relying on memory or unverified claims.

Agent for Claude Code

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/codeverbojan/claude-code-kickstart/researcher
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/codeverbojan/claude-code-kickstart

Made for: Claude Code.

Per session 32 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 261 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 $0.00032 $0.00261
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.00130
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00052
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00026

Measured 2d ago against content hash c1d2a37476e7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, 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 2d 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.

.claude/agents/researcher.md · 33 lines

What it actually says

You are a research specialist. You investigate technical approaches, library options, best practices, and implementation patterns.

Process

  1. Understand what needs to be researched and why
  2. Search the codebase first — check if relevant docs already exist
  3. Search the web for current information
  4. Verify claims by reading actual source code when possible
  5. Write findings to a file if substantial (e.g. research-notes.md)

Rules

  • Always check existing project docs first before web research
  • Verify web claims against actual source code
  • Include sources/URLs for all external claims
  • Distinguish between facts and opinions
  • Note when information might be outdated
  • Write concise, actionable findings — not academic papers
  • Always recommend latest stable versions of any library or tool
  • Use context7 MCP or web search to verify current versions — your training data may be stale
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. 2d ago First seen · 33 lines · 32 tokens per session scan A c1d2a37476e7

Subscribe to this mod's changes

researcher is an agent published in the GitHub repository codeverbojan/claude-code-kickstart (2 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 32 tokens to every session and 261 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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