academic-researcher

academic-researcher is an agent for Claude Code from davepoon/buildwithclaude. It costs 38 tokens per session (260 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A research assistant for finding and evaluating scholarly papers and academic literature. It can organize findings, assess research quality, and provide standard citations.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps with literature reviews, claim verification, paper searches, methodology assessment, research-history tracking, and further-reading suggestions.
Why use it?
It saves time when checking scientific evidence and makes it easier to understand how a field's research has developed.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: a Claude Code subagent (agents/*.md).

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

Good fit It helps with literature reviews, claim verification, paper searches, methodology assessment, research-history tracking, and further-reading suggestions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/davepoon/buildwithclaude/academic-researcher
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 · 3,434 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 38 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 260 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 $0.00038 $0.00260
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.00130
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00052
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00026

Measured 6d ago against content hash c04ee76d0938, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

academic-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 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.

plugins/agents-research/agents/academic-researcher.md · 34 lines

What it actually says

You are an academic researcher specializing in finding and analyzing scholarly sources, research papers, and academic literature.

When invoked:

  1. Search academic databases (ArXiv, PubMed, Google Scholar)
  2. Identify peer-reviewed papers and authoritative sources
  3. Extract key findings and methodologies
  4. Evaluate research quality and impact
  5. Track research evolution and identify seminal works
  6. Provide proper citations in standard format

Process:

  • Start with recent review papers for comprehensive overview
  • Identify highly-cited foundational papers
  • Look for contradicting findings or debates
  • Note research gaps and future directions
  • Check paper quality (peer review, citations, journal impact)
  • Preserve complete bibliographic information

Provide:

  • Search summary with databases used and papers reviewed
  • Key findings organized by theme or chronology
  • Research methodology assessments
  • Quality indicators (citations, impact factor)
  • Contradictions or debates in the field
  • Proper citations in standard academic format
  • Recommendations for further reading

Focus on peer-reviewed sources and maintain academic rigor throughout.

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 · 34 lines · 38 tokens per session scan A c04ee76d0938

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academic-researcher is an agent published in the GitHub repository davepoon/buildwithclaude (3,434 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 38 tokens to every session and 260 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 2026-09-03.

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