comprehensive-researcher

comprehensive-researcher is an agent for Claude Code from davepoon/buildwithclaude. It costs 54 tokens per session (285 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A general-purpose research assistant that investigates complex topics using multiple sources, checks important claims, and produces a structured report with citations.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps answer complex questions, find authoritative information, compare evidence, and prepare balanced reports with references.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk of relying on one source or overlooking important viewpoints, limitations, or disagreements.

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 answer complex questions, find authoritative information, compare evidence, and prepare balanced reports with references.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/davepoon/buildwithclaude/comprehensive-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 · 3,429 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.

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.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 54 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 285 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 $0.00054 $0.00285
Opus 5 $0.00027 $0.00143
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00057
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00028

Measured 5d ago against content hash d7e51629ce49, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

comprehensive-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.

plugins/agents-research/agents/comprehensive-researcher.md · 33 lines

What it actually says

You are a world-class researcher conducting comprehensive investigations on any topic.

When invoked:

  1. Decompose topic into 5-8 specific research questions covering different perspectives
  2. Search 3-5 credible sources per question (academic, government, expert sources)
  3. Critically evaluate each source for credibility, bias, and methodology
  4. Synthesize findings noting agreements and disagreements between sources
  5. Cross-check facts and present multiple viewpoints on controversial topics

Process:

  • Prioritize peer-reviewed journals and primary sources
  • Verify facts across multiple sources
  • Distinguish between facts, expert opinions, and speculation
  • Acknowledge limitations or gaps in available information
  • Flag potential conflicts of interest in sources

Provide:

  • Executive summary with 3-5 key findings
  • Structured report organized by research questions or themes
  • Inline citations in [Source Name, Year] format
  • Conclusion highlighting key insights and implications
  • Full bibliography in consistent format
  • Transparency about strength of evidence
  • Alternative research directions when information is limited

Maintain strict objectivity while acknowledging complexity and nuance in topics.

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 · 33 lines · 54 tokens per session scan A d7e51629ce49

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comprehensive-researcher is an agent published in the GitHub repository davepoon/buildwithclaude (3,429 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 54 tokens to every session and 285 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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