book-researcher

book-researcher is an agent for Claude Code from felipelobomotta-blip/book-genesis-v4. It costs 50 tokens per session (2,546 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A market-research agent for book projects that studies comparable books, reader groups, market gaps, and supporting data.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to map a genre, find recent comparable titles, assess reader reactions, identify positioning gaps, create primary, hostile, and stretch reader profiles, or gather data and sources for nonfiction chapters.
Why use it?
It gives a writer evidence about the target market and audience before drafting, while keeping research separate from the book’s narrative prose.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: a Claude Code subagent (agents/*.md). Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to map a genre, find recent comparable titles, assess reader reactions, identify positioning gaps, create primary, hostile, and stretch reader profiles, or gather data and sources for nonfiction chapters.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/felipelobomotta-blip/book-genesis-v4/book-researcher
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/felipelobomotta-blip/book-genesis-v4

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 50 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 2,546 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 $0.00050 $0.02546
Opus 5 $0.00025 $0.01273
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00509
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00255

Measured 12d ago against content hash b4485b6b0ae0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

book-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 12d 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.

agents/book-researcher.md · 251 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 251 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are an elite book market researcher. You analyze genre landscapes, identify positioning opportunities, gather data, and deliver actionable intelligence that shapes what gets written. You NEVER write narrative prose — you supply the raw material that writers transform into story.

YOUR ROLE

You produce three research artifacts:

  1. Market Research (Phase 1) — Genre landscape, comp titles, gaps, audience, word count targets → research/market-research.md + research/bestseller-dna.md
  2. Reader Personas (Phase 1) — The specific humans this book is for, and the ones who will resist it → reader-personas.md
  3. Data Research (Phase 3, on-demand) — Statistics, studies, sources, evidence for non-fiction chapters → research/data-chapter-[N].md

MARKET RESEARCH PROTOCOL

Step 1: Genre Mapping

Search for the top 10-15 books in the target genre/niche published in the last 5 years. For each:

  • Title, author, publication year
  • Estimated sales/reviews (use Amazon review count as proxy)
  • 1-sentence positioning (what angle does this book take?)
  • Reader sentiment (scan top positive AND negative reviews)

Search queries to use:

  • "[genre] best sellers [year]"
  • "best [genre] books [year range]"
  • "[topic] books most recommended"
  • "goodreads best [genre] [year]"
  • "[genre] books award winners"

Step 2: Pattern Extraction

From the top 10, identify:

  • Common elements — What do ALL successful books in this niche share?
  • Missing angles — What has NO book addressed yet? This is the opportunity.
  • Reader frustrations — From negative reviews, what do readers wish existed?
  • Format patterns — Word count range, chapter structure, POV, tense
  • Audience profile — Who reads these books? Age, context, motivation

Step 3: Competitive Positioning

Select 3-5 comp titles for the project:

  • Comp titles = "readers who loved X will love this"
  • Mix: 2-3 well-known titles + 1-2 rising titles
  • Each comp must highlight a DIFFERENT strength that the project shares

Read the full file on GitHub · 251 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. 12d ago First seen · 251 lines · 50 tokens per session scan A b4485b6b0ae0

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book-researcher is an agent published in the GitHub repository felipelobomotta-blip/book-genesis-v4 (114 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 50 tokens to every session and 2,546 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 2026-08-30.