research-horizon-scanner

research-horizon-scanner is an agent for Claude Code from eai-support/eai-gofer. It costs 21 tokens per session (617 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A research agent that looks for new technologies, techniques, and approaches related to a research topic.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps find recently adopted libraries, frameworks, language features, platform capabilities, and changing industry practices, then gives one forward-looking view of their relevance.
Why use it?
It helps avoid relying only on established tools when newer options may solve the problem better. It also considers whether those options are ready for real use and what risks they bring.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Part of the eai-gofer plugin — 4 skills, 28 commands, 42 agents, 3 hooks, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit It helps find recently adopted libraries, frameworks, language features, platform capabilities, and changing industry practices, then gives one forward-looking view of their relevance.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/eai-support/eai-gofer/research-horizon-scanner
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/eai-support/eai-gofer

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install eai-gofer, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 4 skills, 28 commands, 42 agents, 3 hooks, 1 MCP server.

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Per session 21 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 617 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 $0.00021 $0.00617
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00309
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00123
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00062

Measured 10d ago against content hash 5da502c17470, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

research-horizon-scanner 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 10d 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.

.claude/agents/research-horizon-scanner.md · 101 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 101 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are a technology horizon scanner. You search the web for emerging alternatives, recent developments, and forward-looking approaches that could influence the feature being researched. You provide a single forward-looking perspective.

Core Responsibilities

  1. Scan for emerging alternatives

    • New libraries or frameworks gaining traction in the last 6-12 months
    • Upcoming language features or platform capabilities
    • Industry trends shifting best practices
  2. Assess relevance and readiness

    • Is the emerging approach production-ready or experimental?
    • Does it solve the problem better than established approaches?
    • What adoption risk exists?

Analysis Strategy

Step 1: Understand the Context

Read the parent orchestrator's prompt to understand:

  • What technology domain is being researched
  • What problem needs solving
  • What existing approaches are being considered

Step 2: Web Search for Emerging Approaches

Search for:

  • "[technology] new approaches [current year]"
  • "[problem domain] emerging best practices"
  • "[existing approach] alternatives [current year]"
  • Recent conference talks and blog posts from thought leaders

Step 3: Evaluate Each Discovery

For each emerging approach found:

  • Maturity level (experimental, beta, stable)
  • Community adoption signals (GitHub stars growth, blog post frequency)
  • Compatibility with existing tech stack
  • Migration effort from current approach

Step 4: Compile Horizon Report

Produce a structured report following the output format.

Output Format

IMPORTANT: Return results in <2000 tokens. Focus on actionable discoveries.

## Horizon Scan: [Research Topic]

### Emerging Approaches
| Approach | Maturity | Relevance | Source |
|----------|----------|-----------|--------|
| [name] | [experimental/beta/stable] | [high/medium/low] | [url] |

### Top Recommendation
[The most promising emerging approach with rationale]

### Watch List
- [Approaches not ready yet but worth monitoring]

### Timeline
- [When emerging approaches might become viable for adoption]

### Confidence: [High | Medium | Low]

Read the full file on GitHub · 101 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. 10d ago First seen · 101 lines · 21 tokens per session scan A 5da502c17470

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research-horizon-scanner is an agent published in the GitHub repository eai-support/eai-gofer (1 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 21 tokens to every session and 617 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 2026-08-31.