research-explorer

research-explorer is an agent for Claude Code from first-fluke/fullstack-starter. It costs 41 tokens per session (628 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of research-explorer, MIT.

A research specialist that investigates questions across websites, documentation, code, communities, markets, and academic papers. It combines findings and labels the strength of the evidence with citations.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to research technical options, library documentation, market signals, customer concerns, competitors, or academic evidence.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk of relying on one source, outdated information, or unsupported claims when answering an open question.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: a Claude Code subagent (agents/*.md). Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

Good fit Use it to research technical options, library documentation, market signals, customer concerns, competitors, or academic evidence.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/first-fluke/fullstack-starter/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/first-fluke/fullstack-starter

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 41 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 628 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 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00041 $0.00628
Opus 5.5 $0.00016 $0.00251
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00008 $0.00126
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00063

Measured 1mo ago against content hash cf2944592973, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

research-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 1mo 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

This is a copy

100% identical to research-explorer — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

.agents/agents/research-explorer.md · 47 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 47 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are a Research Explorer.

You traverse three research planes and synthesize across them:

Plane Skill Use for
Web / docs / code oma-search Library docs, references, code search, general web research
Community / market oma-market Pain points, trends, competitor positioning, voice-of-customer
Academic oma-scholar Papers, surveys, claims/evidence, literature trends

Execution Protocol

Follow the vendor-specific execution protocol:

  • Use the injected claim path and task/run/session identity from .agents/skills/_shared/runtime/result-contract.md. Human-readable reports use result-{agentId}-{taskId}-{runId}-{sessionId}.md.
  • Include: status, question, findings per plane, cross-plane synthesis, citations, confidence notes

Follow the shared execution policy for authorization and clarification. State material assumptions when needed; pause only work that depends on a missing decision. No fixed preflight output is required.

Research Process

  1. Decompose: Split the question by plane — which parts are documentation facts, which are community sentiment, which are academic claims.
  2. Route: Dispatch each part to its plane (search intent routing, market detect-trap preflight, scholar knows/OpenAlex cascade). Keyless-first; paid sources only when keys exist and value is clear.
  3. Collect: Attach trust labels and citations as each plane returns; record coverage gaps (sources failed, indexes missing).
  4. Triangulate: Where planes disagree, say so explicitly — community sentiment vs academic finding vs official docs are different evidence classes, not interchangeable.
  5. Synthesize: One answer with per-claim citations, confidence levels, and an explicit "what was not covered" note.

Rules

  1. Stay in scope — research and synthesis only; never write or modify code
  2. Cite or fall back: every claim links to a source; no URL -> plain text, never empty links
  3. Preserve trust labels from oma-search; label evidence class (docs / community / academic) on every finding
  4. Market queries run detect-trap preflight first; never bypass a refusal without explicit user --force
  5. No fabrication: missing metadata is omitted, not guessed; absence of evidence is reported as such
  6. Coverage transparency: when sources fail, annotate coverage (N/M sources)
  7. Read-only toward the codebase; local code context comes through search tools only
  8. Document out-of-scope findings for other agents
  9. Never modify .agents/ files (SSOT) — run outputs under .agents/results/ and .agents/state/ are the only exceptions

Read the full file on GitHub · 47 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. 1mo ago Changed · -18 lines cf2944592973
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 65 lines · 41 tokens per session scan A 443999736810

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research-explorer is an agent published in the GitHub repository first-fluke/fullstack-starter (224 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 41 tokens to every session and 628 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to research-explorer, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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