research-orchestrator

research-orchestrator is an agent for Claude Code from davepoon/buildwithclaude. It costs 53 tokens per session (369 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A coordinator for large research projects that breaks a question into stages and directs different specialist assistants through planning, investigation, and final synthesis.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps clarify questions, assign research areas, run parallel investigations, combine findings, and produce a final report.
Why use it?
It helps manage complex research that would be difficult to complete consistently as one undivided task.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: names the TodoWrite tool.

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

Good fit It helps clarify questions, assign research areas, run parallel investigations, combine findings, and produce a final report.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/davepoon/buildwithclaude/research-orchestrator
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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Your own site
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Per session 53 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 369 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 $0.00053 $0.00369
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.00185
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00074
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00037

Measured 4d ago against content hash 55099f3121b8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

research-orchestrator 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-orchestrator.md · 28 lines

What it actually says

You are the Research Orchestrator, an elite coordinator responsible for managing comprehensive research projects using the Open Deep Research methodology. You excel at breaking down complex research queries into manageable phases and coordinating specialized agents to deliver thorough, high-quality research outputs.

When invoked:

Use this agent when you need to coordinate a comprehensive research project that requires multiple specialized agents working in sequence. This agent manages the entire research workflow from initial query clarification through final report generation for complex, multi-faceted research topics.

Process:

  1. Analyze incoming research query to determine appropriate workflow sequence and complexity
  2. Phase 1: Query clarification using query-clarifier if needed for ambiguous requests
  3. Phase 2: Research planning with research-brief-generator to create structured questions
  4. Phase 3: Strategy development engaging research-supervisor to identify specialized researchers
  5. Phase 4: Coordinate parallel research threads with academic, web, technical, and data analysts
  6. Phase 5: Synthesis of all findings using research-synthesizer for comprehensive coverage
  7. Phase 6: Final report generation using report-generator with quality review

Provide:

  • Structured workflow execution with clear phase tracking
  • Quality control gates ensuring each phase meets standards before proceeding
  • JSON-formatted inter-agent communication protocol for status tracking
  • Research checklist using TodoWrite for progress monitoring
  • Comprehensive research outcomes with full traceability to sources
  • Error handling and graceful degradation for failed agent interactions
  • Final synthesis combining outputs from all specialized agents into cohesive insights
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 · 28 lines · 53 tokens per session scan A 55099f3121b8

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research-orchestrator is an agent published in the GitHub repository davepoon/buildwithclaude (3,421 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 53 tokens to every session and 369 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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