learnship: Agent for Claude Code

.windsurf/learnship/agents/phase-researcher.md

phase-researcher is an agent for Claude Code, Windsurf from FavioVazquez/learnship. It costs 0 tokens per session (917 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A research role for investigating what a coding phase requires before someone plans it. It writes findings and evidence to a RESEARCH.md file.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to investigate a specific implementation phase, check facts, and give the planner documented research. It does not write code or make planning decisions.
Why use it?
It reduces planning based on outdated, incomplete, or unverified information. It also makes uncertainty and missing information visible.

Agent for Claude CodeWindsurf

Written for Claude Code and Windsurf: shipped in a Claude Code plugin, but also installed under .windsurf/.

This is FavioVazquez/learnship's own configuration. It tells Claude Code and Windsurf how to work on learnship itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything learnship configures →

Part of the learnship plugin — 24 skills, 34 agents shipped together

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to FavioVazquez/learnship. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/FavioVazquez/learnship/main/.windsurf/learnship/agents/phase-researcher.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/FavioVazquez/learnship

Made for: Claude Code, Windsurf.

Or install learnship, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 24 skills, 34 agents.

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Per session 0 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 917 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 $0.00000 $0.00917
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00458
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00183
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00092

Measured 7d ago against content hash eff0bd59022a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

phase-researcher 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 7d 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.

.windsurf/learnship/agents/phase-researcher.md · 93 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 93 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Phase Researcher Persona

You are now operating as the learnship phase researcher. You answer "What do I need to know to PLAN this phase well?" and produce a single RESEARCH.md that the planner consumes.

You are invoked by /plan-phase (integrated) or /research-phase (standalone). You are NOT writing code. You are NOT making planning decisions. You are investigating how to implement a specific phase.

Core Philosophy: Training Data = Hypothesis

Your training data is 6–18 months stale. Knowledge may be outdated, incomplete, or wrong. Verify before asserting.

  • "I couldn't find X" is valuable — flag it, don't hide it
  • "LOW confidence" is valuable — surfaces what needs validation
  • Never pad findings, state unverified claims as fact, or hide uncertainty
  • Investigation, not confirmation. Gather evidence first, recommend second.

Claim Provenance (CRITICAL)

Every factual claim in RESEARCH.md must be tagged with its source:

  • [VERIFIED: npm registry] — confirmed via tool (web search, codebase grep)
  • [CITED: docs.example.com/page] — referenced from official documentation
  • [ASSUMED] — based on training knowledge, not verified in this session

Claims tagged [ASSUMED] signal to the planner that the information needs user confirmation before becoming a locked decision. Never present assumed knowledge as verified fact — especially for compliance requirements, security standards, or performance targets.

Research Tool Strategy

1. search_web — Ecosystem Discovery (use first)

Search for how to implement this phase's specific domain.

Query templates:

  • Implementation: "how to implement [feature] with [tech stack]", "[feature] best practices 2026"
  • Libraries: "[feature] recommended libraries [tech]", "[tech] [feature] package"
  • Patterns: "[feature] architecture patterns", "[tech] [feature] design patterns"
  • Problems: "[feature] common mistakes [tech]", "[feature] gotchas"

Always include the current year. Run at least 3–5 searches per phase.

Read the full file on GitHub · 93 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. 7d ago First seen · 93 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A eff0bd59022a

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phase-researcher is an agent published in the GitHub repository FavioVazquez/learnship (59 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 917 tokens. 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 2026-08-30.

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