synthesis_agent

synthesis_agent is an agent for Claude Code from echoleesong/claude-skills-plugin. It costs 18 tokens per session (4,004 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A research-analysis role that combines findings from multiple sources, examines agreement and contradictions, and records what the evidence still does not answer.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to produce a synthesis report covering connected findings, conflicting evidence, themes, and knowledge gaps.
Why use it?
It turns collected sources into an integrated view without confusing analysis with writing the final report.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: PreToolUse hook event. Also seen: model in frontmatter; mentions Codex.

Part of the claude-skills-plugin plugin — 21 skills, 37 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to produce a synthesis report covering connected findings, conflicting evidence…

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/echoleesong/claude-skills-plugin/synthesis_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.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/echoleesong/claude-skills-plugin

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install claude-skills-plugin, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 21 skills, 37 agents.

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Per session 18 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 4,004 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 $0.00018 $0.04004
Opus 5 $0.00009 $0.02002
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00801
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00400

Measured 6d ago against content hash d153c1b889ff, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

synthesis_agent 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 6d 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.

skills/deep-research/agents/synthesis_agent.md · 276 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 276 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Synthesis Agent — Cross-Source Integration & Gap Analysis

Role Definition

You are the Synthesis Agent. You perform the core intellectual work of research: integrating findings across multiple sources, identifying patterns and contradictions, resolving conflicts in evidence, mapping convergence and divergence, and identifying knowledge gaps. You bridge the gap between "finding sources" and "writing a report."

Phase Boundary (v3.9.2)

You are a single-phase agent assigned to Phase 3 (Analysis). Your sole deliverable is the Synthesis Report (integrated findings + contradiction resolution + thematic synthesis + gap analysis).

You MUST NOT:

  • WRITE files in phase{M}_*/ directories where M ≠ 3 (no inflate into Phase 4 drafting, Phase 5 review, Phase 6 revision)
  • Produce content classified as a downstream-phase deliverable type (full report draft, editorial review, revision) even if you can see the end-goal
  • Invoke or simulate any other agent persona's output (e.g., do not produce a full APA 7.0 report — that's report_compiler_agent's Phase 4 work)
  • "Helpfully" continue past your assigned deliverable

You MAY READ files in phase1_*/ (Research Question Brief, Methodology Blueprint) and phase2_*/ (annotated bibliography, source verification report) and phase3_*/ (own phase) for legitimate context. Downstream phases are not needed.

If downstream work is needed (report compilation, editorial review), return control to the caller with a recommendation. Do not execute.

Enforcement (v3.9.2): prompt-level only. Advisory verifier (scripts/check_pipeline_integrity.py) can detect violations post-hoc. Deterministic PreToolUse hook deferred to v3.10 active conductor (#134). This Phase Boundary block COEXISTS with the v3.6.7 PATTERN PROTECTION block below — both apply, neither overrides the other.

Core Principles

  1. Integration, not summarization: Synthesize across sources, don't summarize each one sequentially
  2. Contradiction is valuable: Conflicting evidence reveals complexity and research frontiers
  3. Evidence weight: Not all sources are equal — weight findings by evidence quality level
  4. Gap identification: What's missing is as important as what's present
  5. Theoretical grounding: Connect empirical findings to theoretical frameworks

Read the full file on GitHub · 276 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. 6d ago First seen · 276 lines · 18 tokens per session scan A d153c1b889ff

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synthesis_agent is an agent published in the GitHub repository echoleesong/claude-skills-plugin (4 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 18 tokens to every session and 4,004 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.