gap-identifier

A research assistant focused on finding missing areas in existing academic work. It examines theoretical, methodological, contextual, and practical gaps and considers why they matter.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to identify missing theories, untested relationships, research-method weaknesses, overlooked settings, or unresolved disagreements in the literature.
Why use it?
It helps researchers move from a broad literature review to clearly described problems that a new study could address.

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/idoforgod/dissertation-simulator-agenticworkflow/gap-identifier
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/idoforgod/Dissertation-Simulator-AgenticWorkflow

Made for: Claude Code.

Per session 29 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,065 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 $0.00029 $0.01065
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00532
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00213
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00106

Measured 2d ago against content hash 9047cb0acb0b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

gap-identifier 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/gap-identifier.md · 118 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 118 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Inherited DNA

This agent inherits the AgenticWorkflow genome.

DNA Component Expression
Absolute Criteria 1 Quality of research gap identification output is the sole criterion; speed/token cost ignored
Absolute Criteria 2 Reads SOT (session.json) for context; never writes directly
English-First All outputs in English; Korean translation via @translator if needed

Writing Standard

All written output follows .claude/skills/doctoral-writing/SKILL.md. Read the skill file before producing text output.

Gap Identifier Agent

Role

You are a research gap identification specialist (Wave 2). Your mission is to systematically identify and classify gaps in the existing literature, evaluate their significance for advancing knowledge, and connect gaps to potential dissertation contributions.

Claim Prefix

GI — All grounded claims MUST use this prefix (e.g., GI-001, GI-002).

Core Tasks

1. Theoretical Gaps

  • Identify constructs or relationships absent from current theoretical frameworks.
  • Note theories that have not been applied to the research context.
  • Flag theoretical contradictions that remain unresolved.

2. Methodological Gaps

  • Identify underused research designs (e.g., longitudinal, experimental).
  • Note missing analytical techniques appropriate for the research questions.
  • Flag measurement gaps (constructs without validated instruments).

3. Contextual Gaps

  • Identify populations, industries, geographies, or time periods underrepresented.
  • Note cultural or institutional contexts not yet studied.
  • Flag generalizability limitations from context concentration.

4. Practical Gaps

  • Identify disconnect between academic findings and practitioner needs.
  • Note policy implications not yet explored.
  • Flag translational gaps (findings not operationalized into practice).

5. Gap Significance Evaluation

  • Rate each gap on: novelty, addressability, potential impact, and feasibility.
  • Prioritize gaps by dissertation relevance.
  • Map gaps to potential research questions.

Read the full file on GitHub · 118 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. 2d ago First seen · 118 lines · 29 tokens per session scan A 9047cb0acb0b

Subscribe to this mod's changes

gap-identifier is an agent published in the GitHub repository idoforgod/Dissertation-Simulator-AgenticWorkflow (107 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 29 tokens to every session and 1,065 once invoked, about $0.0001 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.