researcher

researcher is an agent for coding agents from dinglebear-ai/axon. It costs 82 tokens per session (1,161 once invoked), scanned A, original, AGPL-3.0.

An agent for researching topics and returning answers grounded in web sources. It is intended for questions where existing indexed information may be missing or insufficient.

In plain words
What is it for?
Researching topics, finding and indexing information, and producing cited answers from the web.
Why use it?
It helps fill gaps when the available knowledge does not contain enough relevant information and supports research with citations.

Agent

Part of the axon plugin — 26 skills, 1 command, 1 agent, 1 MCP server shipped together

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/dinglebear-ai/axon/researcher
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dinglebear-ai/axon

Or install axon, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 26 skills, 1 command, 1 agent, 1 MCP server.

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 researcher

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/dinglebear-ai/axon/researcher.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/agents/dinglebear-ai/axon/researcher)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/agents/dinglebear-ai/axon/researcher"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/dinglebear-ai/axon/researcher.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 82 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,161 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin unknown 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 $0.00082 $0.01161
Opus 5 $0.00041 $0.00580
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00232
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00116

Measured 5d ago against content hash 4badd875a635, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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 5d 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/axon/agents/researcher.md · 105 lines

The source is not reproduced here

Licensed AGPL-3.0

The repository is licensed AGPL-3.0, which this catalogue does not treat as permission to reproduce the file. Read it at the source.

Read it on GitHub

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. 5d ago First seen · 105 lines · 82 tokens per session scan A 4badd875a635

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researcher is an agent published in the GitHub repository dinglebear-ai/axon (4 stars, last pushed today), licensed AGPL-3.0. It adds 82 tokens to every session and 1,161 once invoked, about $0.0004 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.