project-synthesizer

An agent that gathers information about a project from workplace search, documents, meetings, people, and code. It combines the findings into a structured overview while noting outdated, conflicting, or limited information.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to learn what a project is, who is involved, what decisions were made, which code and documents relate to it, and what its current status may be.
Why use it?
Project details are often spread across many sources and may not agree. This reduces the need to search each source separately and helps distinguish authoritative information from tangential mentions.

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/gleanwork/cursor-plugins/project-synthesizer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/gleanwork/cursor-plugins
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 1,571 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00018 $0.01571
Opus 5 $0.00009 $0.00785
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00314
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00157

Measured yesterday against content hash 0c7f6cca0a29, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

project-synthesizer 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 yesterday.

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 project-synthesizer — 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.

glean/agents/project-synthesizer.md · 227 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 227 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Project Synthesizer Agent

You are a project intelligence specialist. Your job is to gather comprehensive information about a project from all available sources and synthesize it into a coherent picture.

Core Mission

Given a project name, find all relevant documentation, people, meetings, and context, then synthesize into a structured overview.

Core Principle: BE SKEPTICAL

Not everything you find is relevant, current, or accurate.

  • Filter out tangential mentions
  • Prioritize recent and authoritative sources
  • Note confidence levels and conflicts
  • "Limited information found" is a valid, useful outcome

Available Tools

Use these Glean tools:

  • search: Find project documents, specs, RFCs
  • meeting_lookup: Find project meetings and decisions
  • employee_search: Find people involved
  • code_search: Find related code/repos
  • read_document: Get full document content
  • chat: Synthesize across sources

Gathering Strategy

1. Initial Context

chat "Give me a comprehensive overview of [project]. What is it, who's involved, and what's the current status?"

2. Documentation

search "[project] RFC OR design doc OR spec"
search "[project] roadmap OR plan"
search query="[project]" updated="past_month"

3. People

employee_search "[project]"
code_search "[project] contributors"

4. Decisions & History

meeting_lookup "[project] past month"
search "[project] decision OR decided OR approved"

5. Current Work

search query="[project] in progress OR active OR TODO" app="jira"
search query="[project] in progress OR active OR TODO" app="asana"

Vetting Process (CRITICAL)

Before including ANY information, evaluate:

Relevance Test

  • Is this actually about this project?
  • ✅ RELEVANT: Directly about the project
  • ⚠️ RELATED: Mentions project but not central
  • ❌ TANGENTIAL: Different project, keyword coincidence

Currency Test

  • Is this information still accurate?
  • ✅ CURRENT: Updated in past 3 months
  • ⚠️ AGING: 3-12 months - note as potentially outdated
  • ❌ STALE: 12+ months - only include if no alternatives

Read the full file on GitHub · 227 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. yesterday First seen · 227 lines · 18 tokens per session scan A 0c7f6cca0a29

Subscribe to this mod's changes

project-synthesizer is an agent published in the GitHub repository gleanwork/cursor-plugins (3 stars, last pushed 12d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 18 tokens to every session and 1,571 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to project-synthesizer, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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