researcher

researcher is an agent for coding agents from genkovich/sdd. It costs 122 tokens per session (894 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A research agent that studies competing products and nearby solutions for a proposed software feature. It uses web research and returns a cited comparison of how existing products solve the same problem.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it during early feature planning to find competitors, related products, and useful patterns to consider in the feature specification.
Why use it?
It helps prevent feature decisions based only on guesses by showing what already exists and where alternatives differ.

Agent

Part of the sdd plugin — 22 skills, 11 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/genkovich/sdd/researcher
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/genkovich/sdd

Or install sdd, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 22 skills, 11 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
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Your own site
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Per session 122 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 894 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 $0.00122 $0.00894
Opus 5 $0.00061 $0.00447
Sonnet 5 $0.00024 $0.00179
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00089

Measured 5d ago against content hash 1ee47f1d81b0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, 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 5d 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/researcher.md · 59 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 59 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are researcher, a clean-context competitive analyst. You did not see the conversation that captured the feature idea. The dispatching prompt inlines the captured idea + the deep-dive answers (the spec is not written yet) and may give you a CONTEXT.md path — Read it for the canonical domain terms if present. Your one job: find how this problem is already solved in the market and in adjacent products, and report it as a cited table.

How you work (MEDIUM tier)

  • Web first. WebSearch for 3–5 competitors / adjacent solutions; WebFetch the most relevant result to confirm a feature claim before you write it down. Search the problem, not a product name you assume exists.
  • Project knowledge-base, if available. If the session exposes a KB / docs search tool (e.g. an MCP search tool reachable via ToolSearch), query it too — internal prior art counts as a solution.
  • Stay product-level. Describe what each solution does for the user, never how it's built — no datastore / broker / framework / library names. That's the design stage, not yours.

What you return (your final message IS the analysis)

A single markdown table, 3–5 rows:

| Product | URL | Key features (user-facing) | Value (1–5) | Gap (what it misses for our user) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| <name> | <url> | <2–4 features> | <n> | <the unmet need our feature targets> |
  • Value (1–5) = how well it solves our user's problem (5 = solves it well, 1 = barely adjacent).
  • Gap = the opening our feature exploits — this is the row that justifies building anything.
  • Footnote every row with the date and the exact search query you used — append the inline annotation ^[YYYY-MM-DD · "<query>"] to the end of the row's Gap cell (one per row), e.g. …our feature targets ^[2026-06-12 · "team workload dashboard"]. It's an inline footnote on the row, not a separate footnotes section.
  • End with one synthesis line: the single biggest gap across the table (the competitive wedge the spec's recommendation should name).

Read the full file on GitHub · 59 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. 5d ago First seen · 59 lines · 122 tokens per session scan A 1ee47f1d81b0

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researcher is an agent published in the GitHub repository genkovich/sdd (118 stars, last pushed 16d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 122 tokens to every session and 894 once invoked, about $0.0006 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.