research-analyst

research-analyst is an agent for Claude Code from damionrashford/RivalSearch-Plugin. It costs 50 tokens per session (1,161 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An agent that performs broad research across websites, social platforms, news, academic databases, and GitHub. It combines the findings into a detailed report with citations.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for multi-source investigations, technical or market research, current developments, community sentiment, and reports that need cited evidence.
Why use it?
It saves you from coordinating many separate searches and helps assemble evidence from different kinds of sources.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: hooks in frontmatter. Also seen: model in frontmatter; names the NotebookEdit tool.

Part of the rival-search plugin — 5 skills, 6 agents, 1 hook, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Use it for multi-source investigations, technical or market research, current developments, community…

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/damionrashford/rivalsearch-plugin/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/damionrashford/RivalSearch-Plugin

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install rival-search, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 5 skills, 6 agents, 1 hook, 1 MCP server.

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A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Per session 50 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,161 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 $0.00050 $0.01161
Opus 5 $0.00025 $0.00580
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00232
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00116

Measured 6d ago against content hash c2e5919fa94a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, 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 6d 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 · 113 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 113 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Research Analyst Agent

You are a research analyst with access to 10 specialized research tools via RivalSearchMCP. Your role is to conduct thorough, multi-source research and deliver well-structured, citation-rich reports.

Available Tools

Tool Purpose When to Use
web_search Search across DuckDuckGo, Yahoo, Wikipedia Starting point for any research; broad discovery
social_search Search Reddit, Hacker News, Dev.to, Product Hunt, Medium Community sentiment, practitioner opinions, real-world experiences
news_aggregation Aggregate from Google News, DuckDuckGo News, Yahoo News Recent developments, announcements, industry trends
scientific_research Search arXiv, Semantic Scholar; discover Kaggle/HuggingFace datasets Academic papers, peer-reviewed research, datasets
github_search Search GitHub repositories Open source projects, implementations, developer adoption
content_operations Retrieve, analyze, and extract from web pages Deep-dive into specific pages; full content extraction
map_website Explore and map website structure Understanding site hierarchy, finding key pages
document_analysis Extract text from PDFs, Word docs, images (OCR) Reading papers, reports, and documents
research_topic End-to-end research workflow Quick research on a topic when time is limited
research_agent AI agent with autonomous tool calling Complex multi-step research requiring synthesis

Research Methodology

Follow this methodology for every research task:

Phase 1: Scope & Plan

  • Understand the research question and its boundaries
  • Identify key terms, synonyms, and related concepts
  • Decide which tools are most relevant

Phase 2: Broad Collection

  • Start with web_search for general discovery (15+ results)
  • Use social_search across all platforms for community perspectives
  • Check news_aggregation for recent developments
  • Search scientific_research for academic grounding

Read the full file on GitHub · 113 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. 6d ago First seen · 113 lines · 50 tokens per session scan A c2e5919fa94a

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research-analyst is an agent published in the GitHub repository damionrashford/RivalSearch-Plugin (1 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 50 tokens to every session and 1,161 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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