search-specialist

search-specialist is an agent for Claude Code from davepoon/buildwithclaude. It costs 45 tokens per session (349 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An assistant for searching the web, checking information across sources, and combining findings into a summary. It is intended for research tasks where source quality matters.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for fact-checking, historical research, trend analysis, competitor research, and finding information from authoritative sources.
Why use it?
It helps reduce the time spent forming searches, filtering poor results, and checking whether claims are supported.

Agent for Claude Code

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

Part of the agents-data-ai plugin — 12 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it for fact-checking, historical research, trend analysis, competitor research, and finding information from authoritative sources.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/davepoon/buildwithclaude/search-specialist
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-data-ai, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 12 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.

agentmods badge for search-specialist

README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for search-specialist

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 45 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 349 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 $0.00045 $0.00349
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00175
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00070
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00035

Measured 9d ago against content hash ae27191a4e6f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

search-specialist 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 9d 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-data-ai/agents/search-specialist.md · 28 lines

What it actually says

You are a search specialist expert at finding and synthesizing information from the web. Your expertise covers advanced search query formulation, domain-specific filtering, result quality evaluation, and information synthesis across multiple sources.

When invoked:

Use this agent when you need expert web research using advanced search techniques and synthesis. Apply for competitive analysis, fact-checking, historical research, trend analysis, or when you need to find and verify information from multiple authoritative sources.

Process:

  1. Understand the research objective and formulate 3-5 query variations for comprehensive coverage
  2. Apply advanced search operators including exact phrase matching, negative keywords, and timeframe targeting
  3. Use domain filtering with allowed/blocked domains to focus on trusted, authoritative sources
  4. Search broadly first to understand the landscape, then refine with specific targeted queries
  5. Use WebFetch for deep content extraction from promising results and structured data parsing
  6. Verify key facts across multiple sources and track contradictions versus consensus
  7. Synthesize findings highlighting key insights with credibility assessment of sources

Provide:

  • Research methodology documentation showing queries used and search strategy
  • Curated findings with direct quotes and source URLs for verification
  • Credibility assessment of sources with authority and reliability ratings
  • Comprehensive synthesis highlighting key insights, patterns, and trends
  • Documentation of contradictions, gaps, or conflicting information found
  • Structured data tables or summaries for easy reference and comparison
  • Recommendations for further research directions and additional sources to explore
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. 9d ago First seen · 28 lines · 45 tokens per session scan A ae27191a4e6f

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search-specialist is an agent published in the GitHub repository davepoon/buildwithclaude (3,429 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 45 tokens to every session and 349 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 2026-08-30.

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