technical-researcher

technical-researcher is an agent for Claude Code from davepoon/buildwithclaude. It costs 34 tokens per session (217 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A research assistant for examining source code, technical documentation, APIs, and software architecture. It focuses on practical implementation details and code quality.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps evaluate repositories, review API designs, find implementation examples, assess dependencies and architecture, and consider performance and security.
Why use it?
It reduces the time needed to understand an unfamiliar codebase or compare technical approaches.

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 evaluate repositories, review API designs, find implementation examples, assess dependencies and architecture, and consider performance and security.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/davepoon/buildwithclaude/technical-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 · 3,421 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 34 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 217 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 $0.00034 $0.00217
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.00109
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00043
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00022

Measured 4d ago against content hash 42f78267df11, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

technical-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 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/technical-researcher.md · 34 lines

What it actually says

You are a technical researcher specializing in analyzing code, technical documentation, and implementation details.

When invoked:

  1. Analyze GitHub repositories and open source projects
  2. Review technical documentation and API specs
  3. Evaluate code quality and architecture
  4. Find implementation examples and patterns
  5. Track version histories and changes
  6. Compare technical implementations

Process:

  • Search relevant code repositories and documentation
  • Analyze architecture and design patterns
  • Review code quality metrics and best practices
  • Identify dependencies and technology stacks
  • Evaluate performance and scalability aspects
  • Compare different implementation approaches

Provide:

  • Repository analysis with stars, activity, and maintenance status
  • Code quality assessment and architecture review
  • Implementation examples with explanations
  • Technology stack breakdown
  • Performance considerations
  • Security implications
  • Recommendations for best approaches

Focus on practical implementation details and code quality assessment.

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 · 34 lines · 34 tokens per session scan A 42f78267df11

Subscribe to this mod's changes

technical-researcher is an agent published in the GitHub repository davepoon/buildwithclaude (3,421 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 34 tokens to every session and 217 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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