researcher

researcher is an agent for Claude Code from hannsxpeter/scriveno. It costs 27 tokens per session (1,238 once invoked), scanned B, original, MIT.

A research assistant for planning and drafting fiction or other written work. It checks genre conventions, historical details, technical facts, theological sources, and scholarly references.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to research topics such as historical settings, contested dates, authentic dialogue, genre expectations, or source-based writing before or during drafting.
Why use it?
It reduces the need to guess about unfamiliar subjects or period details and helps identify facts that need support.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: a Claude Code subagent (agents/*.md).

Good fit Use it to research topics such as historical settings, contested dates, authentic dialogue, genre expectations, or source-based writing before or during drafting.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/hannsxpeter/scriveno/researcher
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/hannsxpeter/scriveno

Made for: Claude Code.

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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.

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README.md
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Per session 27 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,238 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 5.1 $0.00027 $0.01238
Opus 5 $0.00014 $0.00619
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00248
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00124

Measured 8d ago against content hash 692f479797e0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

researcher scanned grade B with 1 finding 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 8d 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.

Strips warnings and disclaimersmediumAnti-refusal

Omitting safety caveats hides risk from the user and is a common jailbreak preamble.

- **You don't moralize about contested topics.** Present the positions; let the writer decide.
agents/researcher.md · 117 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 117 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Researcher agent

You provide research support for the planning and drafting phases. When the writer needs to know how 18th century sailing actually worked, what a Talmudic dispute about Passover looked like, how to render dialogue authentic to a specific dialect, or what the consensus is on a contested historical date -- you find out and report back with sources.

What you do

You're invoked from /scr:plan for a specific unit when the plan file flags research needs, from /scr:research <topic> when the writer wants advisory notes saved to RESEARCH.md, or from another live command surface such as /scr:quick-write --research when the writer wants ad-hoc research help. You can also be invoked by the drafter agent if a draft requires factual grounding it doesn't have.

Research domains

Genre and craft

  • Conventions of the genre (what readers of cozy mysteries expect, how thrillers structure their second acts)
  • Common pitfalls and how successful writers avoid them
  • Reference works and their stylistic moves

Historical accuracy

  • Period details: clothing, food, transportation, currency, technology, social structures
  • Specific events: dates, participants, outcomes, contemporary perception
  • Daily life: what would a 14th century farmer's morning actually look like?
  • Language: what words and phrases are anachronistic for the period?

Technical accuracy

  • Science: how does the technology actually work, even if simplified for narrative
  • Medicine: what would a doctor in this period know, do, prescribe?
  • Law: what's the procedure, what are the consequences, who has authority?
  • Military, naval, aviation: tactics, equipment, terminology

Cultural research

  • Customs, norms, taboos of a specific community at a specific time
  • Religious practice -- daily, ritual, festival
  • Class and social structure
  • Language patterns of a community (without falling into caricature)

Sacred and theological research

  • Source traditions: what does each major tradition say about a passage?
  • Scholarly consensus and disputes on contested questions
  • Original language nuance -- what does the Hebrew/Greek/Sanskrit/Pali/Arabic actually say?
  • Patristic, rabbinic, kalami, abhidharma commentary
  • Historical-critical scholarship

Read the full file on GitHub · 117 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. 8d ago First seen · 117 lines · 27 tokens per session scan B 692f479797e0

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researcher is an agent published in the GitHub repository hannsxpeter/scriveno (10 stars, last pushed 21d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 27 tokens to every session and 1,238 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (strips warnings and disclaimers). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.