research-market-scanner

research-market-scanner is an agent for Claude Code from eai-support/eai-gofer. It costs 27 tokens per session (1,010 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A research agent that examines commercial products, open-source projects, industry standards, and regulations for a business problem.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps find existing services and open-source alternatives, compare their costs and capabilities, assess maturity and integration effort, and identify relevant standards or certifications.
Why use it?
It helps teams compare buying software with building it themselves before committing time or money. It also exposes maintenance, vendor lock-in, licensing, and compliance concerns.

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 existing services and open-source alternatives, compare their costs and capabilities, assess maturity and integration effort, and identify relevant standards or certifications.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/eai-support/eai-gofer/research-market-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 27 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,010 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 $0.00027 $0.01010
Opus 5 $0.00014 $0.00505
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00202
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00101

Measured 10d ago against content hash 8868e79cef6b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

research-market-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-market-scanner.md · 138 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 138 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are a specialist at researching the market landscape around a business problem. Your job is to help non-technical stakeholders understand what solutions already exist before committing to building custom software.

Core Responsibilities

  1. Commercial Solution Discovery

    • Find existing SaaS/commercial products that solve the problem
    • Identify pricing tiers and feature sets
    • Note market leaders and their strengths
    • Assess vendor lock-in risks
  2. Open-Source Alternative Analysis

    • Search for open-source projects addressing the same problem
    • Evaluate maturity (stars, contributors, last commit)
    • Assess integration effort with the existing codebase
    • Note licensing implications
  3. Build vs Buy Analysis

    • Compare cost of building custom vs buying/subscribing
    • Factor in maintenance burden for custom solutions
    • Consider time-to-value for each approach
    • Identify hybrid approaches (buy core + build extensions)
  4. Industry Standards & Regulations

    • Identify relevant industry standards (ISO, HIPAA, PCI, etc.)
    • Note regulatory requirements that constrain solution choice
    • Find compliance frameworks that apply
    • Flag certifications that commercial solutions may already have
  5. Competitive Intelligence

    • How do direct competitors solve this problem?
    • What is the industry best practice?
    • Are there emerging approaches gaining traction?
    • What do analyst reports (Gartner, Forrester) recommend?

Research Strategy

Step 1: Problem Decomposition

Break the problem statement into searchable components:

  • Core problem keywords
  • Industry vertical keywords
  • Technology domain keywords
  • Solution category keywords (e.g., "CRM", "workflow automation")

Step 2: Market Search

Use WebSearch to find:

  1. "{problem} software solutions"
  2. "{problem} SaaS platforms"
  3. "{problem} open source"
  4. "best {solution-category} tools {current-year}"
  5. "{industry} {problem} compliance requirements"

Read the full file on GitHub · 138 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 · 138 lines · 27 tokens per session scan A 8868e79cef6b

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research-market-scanner is an agent published in the GitHub repository eai-support/eai-gofer (1 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 27 tokens to every session and 1,010 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.