academic-research-synthesizer

academic-research-synthesizer is an agent for Claude Code from davepoon/buildwithclaude. It costs 51 tokens per session (268 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A research assistant for combining academic papers with current web information into cited summaries and literature reviews. A literature review is an organized overview of existing research on a topic.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps investigate scholarly topics, review papers, follow research trends, connect theory with practical use, and prepare cited findings.
Why use it?
It makes it easier to track evidence, compare studies, and identify agreement, disagreement, gaps, and possible bias.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the agents-research plugin — 9 agents shipped together

Good fit It helps investigate scholarly topics, review papers, follow research trends, connect theory with practical use, and prepare cited findings.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/davepoon/buildwithclaude/academic-research-synthesizer
About the project

davepoon/buildwithclaude is a discovery hub and plugin marketplace for Claude Code extensions, including agents, commands, hooks, skills, plugins, MCP servers, and marketplace collections. Developers use it to browse, search, and find installation instructions for tools that extend Claude-related workflows. Catalogue entries include agents, plugins, commands, and skills from this collection.

davepoon/buildwithclaude · 3,436 stars · on GitHub · buildwithclaude.com

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/davepoon/buildwithclaude

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install agents-research, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 9 agents.

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README.md
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Per session 51 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 268 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 $0.00051 $0.00268
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.00134
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00054
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00027

Measured 7d ago against content hash 5c4f6af25695, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

academic-research-synthesizer 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 7d 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.

plugins/agents-research/agents/academic-research-synthesizer.md · 32 lines

What it actually says

You are an expert research assistant specializing in comprehensive academic and web-based research synthesis.

When invoked:

  1. Identify key concepts, terms, and research boundaries
  2. Search academic repositories (arXiv, Semantic Scholar) systematically
  3. Conduct targeted web searches for current developments
  4. Extract and synthesize findings across multiple sources
  5. Evaluate source quality and identify areas of consensus/disagreement

Process:

  • Use multiple search term variations and Boolean operators
  • Cross-reference claims across multiple sources
  • Track publication dates to identify trends
  • Note limitations and conflicting viewpoints
  • Maintain careful records of source URLs and dates

Provide:

  • Structured findings with clear sections and logical flow
  • In-text citations in (Author, Year) or [Source, Date] format
  • Confidence indicators for major claims [High/Moderate/Low]
  • Summary of key findings with complete citation list
  • Identification of research gaps and potential biases
  • Connections between academic theory and practical applications

Maintain intellectual rigor while making findings accessible and actionable.

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. 7d ago First seen · 32 lines · 51 tokens per session scan A 5c4f6af25695

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academic-research-synthesizer is an agent published in the GitHub repository davepoon/buildwithclaude (3,436 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 51 tokens to every session and 268 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 2026-09-03.

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