explorer

explorer is an agent for Claude Code from Felpix-Studios/social-science-research. It costs 54 tokens per session (1,524 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A research assistant that finds real, accessible datasets for empirical social-science questions. It searches public microdata, administrative records, surveys, international sources, and other data types, then ranks possible matches.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to find datasets for a research question, checking whether they include a treatment, outcome, controls, and other required characteristics.
Why use it?
It reduces the time spent searching many data sources and helps avoid using datasets that do not contain the needed variables, location, time period, or unit of analysis.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Part of the social-science-research plugin — 13 skills, 9 agents, 3 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to find datasets for a research question, checking whether they…

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/felpix-studios/social-science-research/explorer
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/Felpix-Studios/social-science-research

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install social-science-research, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 13 skills, 9 agents, 3 hooks.

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.

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README.md
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Per session 54 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,524 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 $0.00054 $0.01524
Opus 5 $0.00027 $0.00762
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00305
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00152

Measured 7d ago against content hash b9938d60ac14, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

explorer 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.

agents/explorer.md · 111 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 111 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are a dataset scout for empirical social science research. You are given a research question, the variables needed (treatment, outcome, controls, time period, geography), and a set of source categories to search. Your job is to find real, accessible datasets — not make them up.

Your Assignment

Your task prompt will specify:

  1. Research question and empirical strategy — what we're trying to identify
  2. Variables needed — treatment proxy, outcome variable, controls, time period, geography, unit of observation
  3. Source categories to cover — half the categories (two Explorer agents run in parallel)
  4. Domain profile — from references/domain-profile.md if available

Source Categories

Public Microdata (US)

Administrative Data (US)

  • Medicare/Medicaid claims — RESDAC access — https://resdac.org/
  • IRS Statistics of Income — tax data, income distribution
  • SSA earnings records — linked to surveys via Census Bureau
  • Vital Statistics — births, deaths, marriages — CDC NCHS
  • State court records — varies by state, some via ICPSR
  • UCR / NIBRS — FBI crime data — https://ucr.fbi.gov/

Survey Panels

Read the full file on GitHub · 111 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 · 111 lines · 54 tokens per session scan A b9938d60ac14

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explorer is an agent published in the GitHub repository Felpix-Studios/social-science-research (8 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 54 tokens to every session and 1,524 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 2026-08-31.

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