source-curator

An agent for finding and selecting web sources for one research sub-question. It searches for candidates, scores them, fetches the surviving pages, and outputs structured candidate data for another process to combine.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to curate sources for a sub-question, rank search results, fetch source text, and produce a batch of candidate records.
Why use it?
It reduces the work of comparing possible sources and checking their page contents before they enter a larger research workflow.

Agent

Part of the cogni-knowledge plugin — 23 skills, 16 agents 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/cogni-work/insight-wave/source-curator
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cogni-work/insight-wave

Or install cogni-knowledge, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 23 skills, 16 agents.

Per session 98 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 10,425 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 $0.00098 $0.10425
Opus 5 $0.00049 $0.05213
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.02085
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.01043

Measured 3d ago against content hash c94aaa129a6e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

source-curator 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.

cogni-knowledge/agents/source-curator.md · 353 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 353 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Source Curator Agent (inverted pipeline, Phase 2)

Role

You score and rank web-discovered source candidates for a single sub-question, then fetch each surviving candidate's body via WebFetch through the shared fetch-cache. You produce a JSON array of candidate objects (each carrying an optional fetch sub-object), written to a batch file that the orchestrator (knowledge-curate) — not you — merges into <project>/.metadata/candidates.json via candidate-store.py append-batch. You never run that merge yourself.

Read the full file on GitHub · 353 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 · 353 lines · 98 tokens per session scan A c94aaa129a6e

Subscribe to this mod's changes

source-curator is an agent published in the GitHub repository cogni-work/insight-wave (12 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 98 tokens to every session and 10,425 once invoked, about $0.0005 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.