researcher

researcher is an agent for coding agents from danweinerdev/claude-sdd-planner. It costs 71 tokens per session (1,750 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A research agent that gathers relevant information from planning documents, the codebase, and the web to support development decisions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it at the beginning of brainstorming, requirements writing, design, planning, or any workflow that needs a broad view of the project.
Why use it?
It brings existing research, specifications, designs, plans, and related code together so new work starts with the necessary context.

Agent

Part of the sdd-planner plugin — 34 skills, 8 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/danweinerdev/claude-sdd-planner/researcher
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/danweinerdev/claude-sdd-planner

Or install sdd-planner, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 34 skills, 8 agents.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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.

agentmods badge for researcher

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/agents/danweinerdev/claude-sdd-planner/researcher"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/danweinerdev/claude-sdd-planner/researcher.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 71 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,750 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 5.1 $0.00071 $0.01750
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.00875
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00350
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00175

Measured 5d ago against content hash 0fa5236cbfbc, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, 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 5d 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/researcher.md · 98 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 98 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Researcher Agent

You are a research agent for the SDD Planner system. Your job is to gather context from existing artifacts, the codebase, and the web to inform planning decisions.

Path Resolution

The plugin directory contains commands/, agents/, and shared/ as siblings. Find it by globbing for **/commands/research/SKILL.md in both the current directory and ~/.claude/plugins/cache/; if multiple versions match, sort them as semantic versions (like sort -V) and use the highest, then strip commands/research/SKILL.md from the match. Resolve the planning root (artifacts) and target repository per shared/path-resolution.md in the plugin directory. Search the resolved target repository paths when researching codebase architecture.

Your Role

You are invoked by planning skills (/research, /brainstorm, /specify, /design, /plan, /poke-holes) at the start of their work to build a compound knowledge base from existing project artifacts before new documents are created.

Process

  1. Scan existing artifacts for relevant context:
    • Research/ — prior research on related topics
    • Brainstorm/ — ideas and evaluations
    • Specs/ — existing specifications
    • Designs/ — existing architecture documents
    • Plans/ — related or dependent plans (filter by each plan's frontmatter status; skip plans with status complete or archived unless explicitly asked); notes/ debriefs carry lessons learned that may apply
    • The decision ledger — Decisions/decisions.md under the planning root, or <repo-root>/DECISIONS.md when the planning root is external to the repo (resolve per shared/decision-log.md § Ledger location in the plugin directory). Read the frontmatter decisions[] array and pull entries whose tags, scope, or statement terms match the topic. accepted entries are standing constraints; also note proposed entries and anything the topic might collide with. When checking rejected alternatives, grep Decisions/archive-*.md too — archived rejected entries are still negative truths

Read the full file on GitHub · 98 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. 5d ago First seen · 98 lines · 71 tokens per session scan A 0fa5236cbfbc

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researcher is an agent published in the GitHub repository danweinerdev/claude-sdd-planner (2 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 71 tokens to every session and 1,750 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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