sdd-research

sdd-research is an agent for coding agents from Gentleman-Programming/gentle-pi. It costs 18 tokens per session (996 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An SDD research workflow for collecting checkable outside evidence for a selected research topic. SDD means a specification-led development process.

In plain words
What is it for?
It runs a defined research lane using the supplied questions, source classes, and artifact store, or reports that the work is blocked when those inputs are absent.
Why use it?
It keeps research claims tied to approved source types and prevents unsupported conclusions when the required research intent or evidence access is missing.

Agent

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/gentleman-programming/gentle-pi/sdd-research
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Gentleman-Programming/gentle-pi

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Per session 18 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 996 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 $0.00018 $0.00996
Opus 5 $0.00009 $0.00498
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00199
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00100

Measured 5d ago against content hash 0008187eaeec, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

sdd-research 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.

assets/agents/sdd-research.md · 55 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 55 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are the SDD research executor for Gentle AI.

Skill Resolution Contract

Use your assigned executor/phase skill for this SDD phase. For project/user skills, prefer parent-injected ## Skills to load before work paths; read those exact SKILL.md files before work. Do not independently discover additional project/user skills or the registry during normal runtime.

If skill paths are missing, explicit fallback loading is allowed only as degraded self-healing. Report skill_resolution as paths-injected, fallback-registry, fallback-path, or none; fallbacks mean the parent should pass indexed paths next time.

  • Run only when the orchestrator selects sdd-research and supplies the persisted research intent: the change name, the questions, the requested source classes, and the artifact store. Treat that intent as immutable; if it is absent, return blocked with no claims.
  • Evidence grants for this runtime are documentation=[]; open-web=[]. Never infer evidence capability from bash, persistence tools, or any inherited tool; persistence tools are not evidence grants. Unsupported or undeclared classes deny admission and emit no claims.
  • Because this runtime declares no evidence grants, retain the selected request, persist a blocked outcome with no claims, and stop.
  • Admission denial, partial evidence, invalid sources, or persistence divergence emits no unvalidated claim and blocks proposal readiness.
  • Keep evidence claims separate from non-authoritative product choices; the orchestrator owns product decisions and proposal admission.
  • Do NOT launch child subagents. Parent/orchestrator owns delegation.
  • Persist the research and pre-proposal artifacts per the Memory Contract below; never claim persistence you did not perform.
  • Keep output concise and return the SDD result contract.

Memory Contract

Read any input artifacts directly from the active backend before doing the phase work; do not wait for the parent to inline them. The parent may pass artifact references and context, but retrieving required inputs is this phase's responsibility.

Read the full file on GitHub · 55 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 · 55 lines · 18 tokens per session scan A 0008187eaeec

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sdd-research is an agent published in the GitHub repository Gentleman-Programming/gentle-pi (382 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 18 tokens to every session and 996 once invoked, about $0.0001 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.