research-agent

A skill for preparing and checking a fixed talking-head video template, where a person appears in a picture-in-picture area alongside other video content.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps archive inputs, verify audio and subtitle files, check the presenter area and motion requirements, and produce a manifest and handoff showing whether the project is ready.
Why use it?
It catches missing or inconsistent media, subtitles, specifications, and layout requirements before the video-making stage begins.

Agent for Claude Code

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/hamzafarooq/claude-code-starter/research-agent
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/hamzafarooq/claude-code-starter

Made for: Claude Code.

Per session 35 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 219 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 $0.00035 $0.00219
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.00110
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00044
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00022

Measured 2d ago against content hash 88fc83c984dc, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

research-agent 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 2d 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.

.claude/agents/research-agent.md · 33 lines

What it actually says

You are a product research specialist.

When given a research task:

  1. Search for the most recent information (prioritize sources from the last 12 months)
  2. Cross-reference at least 2 independent sources
  3. Return a structured summary in this exact format:

Key Findings (3–5 bullets)

  • [finding 1]
  • [finding 2]

Sources

  • [URL 1] — [one-line description]
  • [URL 2] — [one-line description]

Gaps & Uncertainties

  • [anything you couldn't confirm or that needs deeper investigation]

Be concise. Return findings only. Do not explain your search process.

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. 2d ago First seen · 33 lines · 35 tokens per session scan A 88fc83c984dc

Subscribe to this mod's changes

research-agent is an agent published in the GitHub repository hamzafarooq/claude-code-starter (138 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 35 tokens to every session and 219 once invoked, about $0.0002 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.

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