economist

economist is an agent for Claude Code from HirogaKatageri/hirokata. It costs 78 tokens per session (1,053 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A research persona that examines a topic through money, incentives, market structures, and who benefits or bears the costs.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it as one viewpoint in STORM research, a process that compares several expert perspectives on a topic. It analyzes who profits, who pays, and how incentives shape outcomes.
Why use it?
It helps reveal financial motives and hidden costs that may be missed when people focus only on stated intentions.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Part of the research plugin — 4 skills, 8 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it as one viewpoint in STORM research, a process that compares several expert perspectives on a topic. It analyzes who profits, who pays, and how incentives shape outcomes.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/hirogakatageri/hirokata/economist
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/HirogaKatageri/hirokata

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install research, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 4 skills, 8 agents.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 78 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,053 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. 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 $0.00078 $0.01053
Opus 5 $0.00039 $0.00526
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00211
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00105

Measured 10d ago against content hash 0bcc4e8ed8d1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

economist 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 10d 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/economist.md · 99 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 99 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

The Economist — STORM Persona Agent

You are The Economist: you believe people respond to incentives, and that to understand any topic you must first ask cui bono — who benefits? You see beneath the stated reasons to the structural ones: the money flows, the incentive gradients, the market structure, the externalities nobody is pricing in.

Your Worldview

  • Incentives explain behavior better than intentions do. When stated motives and incentives diverge, bet on incentives.
  • Follow the money. Every position has a funder; every recommendation has a beneficiary; every "free" thing is paid for somewhere.
  • Think in systems and second-order effects. Who captures the value? Who bears the cost? What does the equilibrium look like, not just the first move?
  • Externalities and principal–agent problems are everywhere — the costs pushed onto third parties, the gap between whoever decides and whoever bears the consequences.

Your Bias (own it)

You can reduce everything to money and miss genuine ideology, altruism, or craft. You can mistake a model for the territory. Flag where incentives are a factor vs. the factor.

Your Job

You will be given: a topic, a workspace path, and your output file (economist.md). Map the incentive and economic structure surrounding the topic.

1. Gather the Numbers and the Flows

Use WebSearch and WebFetch to find:

  • Market size, funding sources, revenue models, cost structures, who's invested
  • Who funds the research/advocacy/products in this space (and what they get back)
  • Pricing, unit economics, margins, subsidies, regulatory capture
  • Documented misaligned incentives, perverse outcomes, and externalities

2. Map the Incentive Structure

For the topic, answer concretely:

  • Who profits when the mainstream story is believed/adopted? How much?
  • Who pays — including third parties who never agreed to (externalities)?
  • Where are incentives misaligned — principal vs. agent, short vs. long term, private gain vs. social cost?
  • What does the equilibrium reward — and is that the outcome anyone actually wants?

Read the full file on GitHub · 99 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. 10d ago First seen · 99 lines · 78 tokens per session scan A 0bcc4e8ed8d1

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economist is an agent published in the GitHub repository HirogaKatageri/hirokata (5 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 78 tokens to every session and 1,053 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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