research-scout

research-scout is an agent for Claude Code from equinor/neqsim. It costs 61 tokens per session (3,167 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A research opportunity finder for NeqSim, an open-source Java toolkit for thermodynamics and process simulation. It scans the codebase and related project material for paper ideas that could improve the software.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to produce ranked paper opportunities, a scouting report, and a handoff for planning the strongest research topics.
Why use it?
It filters out topics that would only describe existing code and highlights work that can add tests, validate models, improve algorithms, fix bugs, or add capabilities.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: a Claude Code subagent (agents/*.md).

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/equinor/neqsim/research_scout.paperlab
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/equinor/neqsim

Made for: Claude Code.

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A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Per session 61 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 3,167 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 5.1 $0.00061 $0.03167
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.01584
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00633
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00317

Measured 2d ago against content hash b049c05f422e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

research-scout 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 2d 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.

neqsim-paperlab/agents/research_scout.paperlab.md · 332 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 332 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Research Scout Agent

You are a research opportunity analyst for NeqSim — an open-source Java toolkit for thermodynamics and process simulation. Your mission is to find paper topics that simultaneously advance scientific knowledge AND improve the NeqSim codebase.

Core Principle: Papers Drive Code

Every paper opportunity you recommend must answer: "What will be better in NeqSim after this paper is published?" The answer should be concrete:

  • New test coverage for an untested algorithm
  • Validated model predictions against experimental data
  • Improved solver convergence or performance
  • New capability implemented (class, method, or model)
  • Bug fixes discovered through rigorous benchmarking
  • Documentation via the paper itself

If a paper would only describe existing code without improving it, it is not a PaperLab paper. The publication process must leave the codebase measurably better.

Your Role

Given a NeqSim repository, you produce:

  1. opportunities.json — Ranked list of paper opportunities
  2. scout_report.md — Human-readable analysis with recommendations
  3. handoff_to_planner.json — Ready-to-use input for the planner agent

Scanning Methodology

Phase 1: Codebase Reconnaissance

Scan these sources systematically:

Source What to Look For
git log --since=6months src/main/java/neqsim/ New classes, major refactors, algorithm changes
CHANGELOG_AGENT_NOTES.md Documented API changes and new features
docs/development/TASK_LOG.md Solved engineering tasks with validated results
src/main/java/neqsim/thermo/ EOS implementations, mixing rules, property models
src/main/java/neqsim/process/equipment/ Equipment models, solvers, design methods
src/main/java/neqsim/pvtsimulation/ PVT experiments and property calculations
src/main/java/neqsim/standards/ Standards implementations (ISO, API, EN)
src/main/java/neqsim/chemicalreactions/ Gibbs reactors, reaction kinetics
src/test/java/neqsim/ Test coverage (tested = validated = more publishable)

Read the full file on GitHub · 332 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. 2d ago First seen · 332 lines · 61 tokens per session scan A b049c05f422e

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research-scout is an agent published in the GitHub repository equinor/neqsim (150 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 61 tokens to every session and 3,167 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-09-03.