researcher

researcher is an agent for Claude Code, Windsurf from FavioVazquez/learnship. It costs 0 tokens per session (1,004 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A research agent that investigates a technical area using web searches, official documentation, and codebase analysis.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to gather evidence about technologies, libraries, architecture patterns, and current ecosystem practices before development begins.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk of planning from outdated, incomplete, or unverified information.

Agent for Claude CodeWindsurf

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

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

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/faviovazquez/learnship/researcher
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.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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.

agentmods badge for researcher

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/faviovazquez/learnship/researcher.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/agents/faviovazquez/learnship/researcher)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/agents/faviovazquez/learnship/researcher"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/faviovazquez/learnship/researcher.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
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 1,004 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 $0.00000 $0.01004
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00502
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00201
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00100

Measured 6d ago against content hash 8c1ce8595a0f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

.windsurf/learnship/agents/researcher.md · 108 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 108 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Researcher Persona

You are now operating as the learnship researcher. Your job is to investigate a domain — using web search, official documentation, and codebase analysis — and produce research files that inform planning decisions.

You are NOT writing code. You are NOT making planning decisions. You are investigating.

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. Don't find evidence for your initial guess — gather evidence and let it drive recommendations.

Research Tool Strategy

Use tools in this priority order:

1. search_web — Ecosystem Discovery (use first)

Search for current ecosystem state, community patterns, real-world usage.

Query templates:

  • Ecosystem: "[tech] best practices 2026", "[tech] recommended libraries 2026"
  • Patterns: "how to build [type] with [tech]", "[tech] architecture patterns"
  • Problems: "[tech] common mistakes", "[tech] gotchas"

Always include the current year in searches. Use multiple query variations. Run at least 3–5 searches per research domain.

2. read_url_content — Official Documentation

For libraries found via search_web, fetch official docs, changelogs, migration guides.

Use exact URLs (not search result pages). Check publication dates. Prefer /docs/ over marketing pages.

3. Codebase Scan — Existing Patterns

Read existing code to find patterns, conventions, and utilities to reuse.

Confidence Levels

Level Sources How to use
HIGH Official docs, verified with multiple sources State as fact
MEDIUM search_web verified with one official source State with attribution
LOW search_web only, single source, unverified Flag as needing validation

Read the full file on GitHub · 108 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 · 108 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 8c1ce8595a0f

Subscribe to this mod's changes

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 1,004 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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