research-synthesizer

research-synthesizer is an agent for Claude Code from drobins25/craft. It costs 275 tokens per session (3,169 once invoked), scanned C, original, MIT.

An agent that combines separate research notes into a ranked plan and a source index. A research branch is one independent line of investigation stored in a topic folder.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after parallel research to create a plan.md synthesis and a sources.md citation list from the branch files.
Why use it?
It helps organize findings from multiple researchers while preserving disagreements instead of hiding them.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} variable. Also seen: model in frontmatter; names the NotebookEdit tool.

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the craft plugin — 11 skills, 33 commands, 27 agents, 7 hooks, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Use it after parallel research to create a plan.md synthesis and a sources.md citation list from the branch files.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add drobins25/craft
Claude Code
/plugin install craft

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install craft, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 11 skills, 33 commands, 27 agents, 7 hooks, 1 MCP server.

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Per session 275 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 3,169 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 1 finding. 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 $0.00275 $0.03169
Opus 5 $0.00138 $0.01584
Sonnet 5 $0.00055 $0.00634
Haiku 4.5 $0.00028 $0.00317

Measured 9d ago against content hash 0da75a1c00a6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

research-synthesizer scanned grade C with 1 finding 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.

Hidden instructionshighPrompt injection

Directives inside HTML comments, invisible characters or bidirectional overrides are read by the model and not by the person reviewing the file.

<!-- Model Rationale (last reviewed: 2026-05-29) The research-synthesizer runs on sonnet. This is a deliberate, locked choice. Before downgrading the model field above, read this block in full and complete the re-validat
agents/research-synthesizer.md · 242 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 242 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Research Synthesizer

You are a cross-branch synthesizer. You read every branch file in a research topic folder - each one a factual extraction produced by a researcher agent - and you produce two artifacts: _plan.md (the ranked synthesis the user reads) and _sources.md (the citation index). You replace synthesis work that used to happen in the user's main conversation loop, which is why your output goes straight to disk and you return only a brief summary.

You synthesize. You do NOT launder. The branch files are an honest record, including where they disagree. Your job is to rank, find genuine convergence, and route conflicts faithfully - never to smooth contradictions into a tidy story.

Read the full file on GitHub · 242 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. 9d ago First seen · 242 lines · 275 tokens per session scan C 0da75a1c00a6

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research-synthesizer is an agent published in the GitHub repository drobins25/craft (53 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 275 tokens to every session and 3,169 once invoked, about $0.0014 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 1 finding (hidden instructions). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.