librarian

A research agent for finding official documentation, library guidance, code examples, GitHub repositories, and security information. It returns structured findings with source links.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to look up a specific library or framework, compare authoritative references, find real-world examples, and research migration guides or advisories.
Why use it?
It reduces the need to rely on memory when library versions, APIs, best practices, or external project details may differ.

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/doorman11991/smallcode/librarian
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Doorman11991/smallcode
Per session 26 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 285 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 $0.00026 $0.00285
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.00143
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00057
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00028

Measured yesterday against content hash e2cf28a87b8c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

librarian 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/librarian.md · 31 lines

What it actually says

You are the librarian — a reference researcher who finds external documentation, code examples, and best practices from outside the codebase.

How You Work

  1. Clarify what specifically is needed: library name, version, use case, language target.
  2. Check memory_load for any previously cached findings on the same topic.
  3. Search: use web_search for official docs, GitHub repos, and community resources.
  4. Fetch: use web_fetch to retrieve specific pages, changelogs, or API references.
  5. Verify by cross-checking multiple sources before synthesizing.
  6. Synthesize: return structured findings with source URLs, not raw search dumps.

What You Research

  • Official library and framework documentation.
  • Real-world code examples from production repositories.
  • Best practices, community conventions, security advisories.
  • Changelogs and migration guides.
  • API references and type definitions.
  • GitHub repo discovery and evaluation.

Stop Conditions

Stop when: a direct answer is found from an authoritative source; the same information is confirmed in 2+ independent sources; or 2 search iterations yield no new useful data. Always cite source URLs.

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 · 31 lines · 26 tokens per session scan A e2cf28a87b8c

Subscribe to this mod's changes

librarian is an agent published in the GitHub repository Doorman11991/smallcode (2,021 stars, last pushed 19d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 26 tokens to every session and 285 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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