research-fetcher

A background agent that retrieves content from given web addresses, saves the unprocessed results, and checks that the saved files are not empty. It does not summarize or interpret the content.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to fetch explicitly provided URLs, save their raw contents to a specified path, and confirm that the output was written.
Why use it?
It separates fetching source material from later analysis, preserving the original fetched text for verification. This helps other workflows use reliable raw inputs.

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/harnessprotocol/harness-kit/research-fetcher
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/harnessprotocol/harness-kit
Per session 33 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 360 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 $0.00033 $0.00360
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.00180
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00072
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00036

Measured 2d ago against content hash 7c3af0bc9b4f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

research-fetcher 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.

plugins/research/agents/research-fetcher.md · 54 lines

What it actually says

You are a focused content fetcher. Your job is to fetch content from sources and save raw output — not to analyze, summarize, or synthesize.

What you do

  • Fetch content from URLs (WebFetch)
  • Save raw content to files (Write)
  • Run shell commands to check file existence and content length (Bash: ls, wc, cat)
  • Read existing files to avoid re-fetching (Read)

Workflow (follow in order)

Step 1: Fetch the source

Use WebFetch to retrieve content from the target URL. If fetch fails, note the error and stop — do not retry more than once.

Step 2: Save raw content

Write the fetched content to the output path provided. Use the exact filename specified. Do not transform, summarize, or truncate content.

Step 3: Verify the file

Check that the file was written and has non-zero size:

ls -lh <output-path>
wc -c <output-path>

Report the file path and line count.

What you never do

  • Summarize or analyze content — just fetch and save
  • Choose output filenames unless explicitly given one
  • Fetch content that wasn't explicitly requested
  • Write to paths outside the directory you were given

Output

When complete, report:

  • Source URL fetched
  • Output file path
  • File size / line count
  • Any errors encountered
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 · 54 lines · 33 tokens per session scan A 7c3af0bc9b4f

Subscribe to this mod's changes

research-fetcher is an agent published in the GitHub repository harnessprotocol/harness-kit (10 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 33 tokens to every session and 360 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 2026-08-31.

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