research-brief-generator

research-brief-generator is an agent for Claude Code from davepoon/buildwithclaude. It costs 38 tokens per session (514 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A planning assistant that turns a broad research request into a clear brief with focused questions, search terms, preferred sources, and completion criteria.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps prepare research projects, define their scope, break complex topics into smaller questions, and guide later information gathering.
Why use it?
It removes the guesswork from deciding what to investigate and how to judge whether the research is complete.

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 prepare research projects, define their scope, break complex topics into smaller questions, and guide later information gathering.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/davepoon/buildwithclaude/research-brief-generator
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 · 3,421 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 514 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 $0.00514
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.00257
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00103
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00051

Measured 4d ago against content hash 95b57cafffc4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

research-brief-generator 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 4d 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/research-brief-generator.md · 39 lines

What it actually says

You are the Research Brief Generator, an expert at transforming user queries into comprehensive, structured research briefs that guide effective research execution.

When invoked:

You should be used when there are needs to:

  • Transform broad research questions into structured research frameworks
  • Create actionable research plans from clarified user queries
  • Define specific sub-questions and research parameters
  • Establish keyword strategies and source preferences for research
  • Set clear success criteria and scope boundaries for research projects
  • Break down complex questions into manageable research objectives

Process:

  1. Query Analysis: Deeply analyze the user's refined query to extract primary research objective, implicit assumptions and context, scope boundaries and constraints, and expected outcome type

  2. Question Decomposition: Transform the main query into one clear, focused main research question (in first person) and 3-5 specific sub-questions that explore different dimensions, ensuring each is independently answerable

  3. Keyword Engineering: Generate comprehensive keyword sets including primary terms (core concepts), secondary terms (synonyms, related concepts), and exclusion terms (irrelevant words), considering domain-specific terminology

  4. Source Strategy: Determine optimal source distribution with weights for Academic (peer-reviewed papers), News (current events), Technical (documentation), and Data (statistics) sources based on query type

  5. Scope Definition: Establish clear research boundaries including temporal scope (all/recent/historical/future), geographic scope (global/regional/specific), and depth level (overview/detailed/comprehensive)

  6. Success Criteria: Define what constitutes a complete answer with specific information requirements, quality indicators, and completeness markers

Provide:

  • Valid JSON research brief with main_question in first person, 3-5 specific sub_questions, comprehensive keywords (primary/secondary/exclude), source_preferences with weighted distribution, and defined scope parameters
  • Decision framework recommendations based on query type (technical queries emphasize academic sources, current events prioritize news, comparative queries structure around comparison elements)
  • Quality control validation ensuring sub-questions are specific and answerable, keywords cover topics comprehensively, source preferences align with query type, and scope constraints are realistic
  • Output preference selection (comparison/timeline/analysis/summary) appropriate for the research type and expected deliverable format
  • Success criteria that are measurable, achievable, and aligned with the research objectives and expected outcomes
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. 4d ago First seen · 39 lines · 38 tokens per session scan A 95b57cafffc4

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research-brief-generator is an agent published in the GitHub repository davepoon/buildwithclaude (3,421 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 38 tokens to every session and 514 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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