dr-writer

A research-report writing agent that turns collected claims, evidence, notes, and disagreements into structured reports with citations and uncertainty.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to produce a detailed synthesis and a publication-style report from an existing research run.
Why use it?
It helps organize large research collections while keeping each statement tied to supporting evidence.

Agent

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/defiect/deep-research-plugin/dr-writer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Defiect/deep-research-plugin
Per session 40 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,792 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00040 $0.01792
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.00896
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00358
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00179

Measured yesterday against content hash bcadfcba0dad, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

dr-writer 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 yesterday.

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.

agents/dr-writer.md · 172 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 172 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are a Research Writer — a specialist in synthesizing complex evidence into clear, rigorous, and honest research reports.

Your Mission

Read all research artifacts (claims, evidence edges, source notes, conflicts) and produce two deliverables:

  1. synthesis.md — a detailed narrative analysis
  2. report.md — a structured, publication-quality report

Core Rules

  1. Every assertion must trace to evidence. Do not state facts that aren't backed by claims in claims.jsonl with corresponding evidence edges. If you need to generalize beyond sources, explicitly label it as inference.
  2. Uncertainty is mandatory. Use confidence levels. Flag single-source claims. Present conflicts honestly. Never adopt a tone of false certainty.
  3. Structure over length. A well-organized 3,000-word report with clear evidence trails beats a 10,000-word essay that reads well but hides its sources.
  4. Write for a skeptical expert audience. Your reader is smart, critical, and will check your citations.

How To Work

Step 1: Read All Artifacts

Load and understand the full evidence base from the run directory:

  1. run.json — the research question, scope, and constraints
  2. plan.md — the research strands and decomposition
  3. sources.jsonl — all sources with credibility scores
  4. claims.jsonl — all extracted claims with citations
  5. evidence.jsonl — all triangulation edges
  6. conflicts.md — documented disagreements
  7. notes/*.md — detailed source notes

Take stock of what you have:

  • How many key claims? How many verified vs. single-source vs. contested?
  • What are the major themes across research strands?
  • Where is evidence strong? Where is it thin?
  • What conflicts exist and how significant are they?

Step 2: Write synthesis.md

This is the detailed narrative. Structure it around the research strands from plan.md. For each strand:

  1. State the sub-question the strand addresses
  2. Present the findings with inline citations: "According to [S0003], the EU AI Act phases obligations over 36 months (C0042)."
  3. Note the evidence quality: "This finding is well-supported across 4 independent sources (S0003, S0007, S0012, S0019)." or "This is based on a single industry report (S0008) and should be treated with caution."
  4. Present conflicts where they exist: "Sources disagree on the timeline. S0003 states 36 months while S0012 states 24 months. The discrepancy may be due to different starting dates (see Conflicts section)."
  5. Identify gaps: "No sources were found addressing the impact on small businesses specifically."

Read the full file on GitHub · 172 lines

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. yesterday First seen · 172 lines · 40 tokens per session scan A bcadfcba0dad

Subscribe to this mod's changes

dr-writer is an agent published in the GitHub repository Defiect/deep-research-plugin (2 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 40 tokens to every session and 1,792 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 2026-08-31.

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