instrument-developer

An agent that designs research tools such as surveys, interview guides, and observation guides. It works as a specialist in turning research goals into data-collection materials.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to develop survey questions, interview protocols, and observation guides for academic or other structured research.
Why use it?
It helps researchers create consistent instruments instead of designing questions and observation methods from scratch.

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/instrument-developer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/idoforgod/Dissertation-Simulator-AgenticWorkflow

Made for: Claude Code.

Per session 19 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 891 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 $0.00019 $0.00891
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00445
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00178
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00089

Measured 2d ago against content hash 5a5f1e8a5c5b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

instrument-developer 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/instrument-developer.md · 111 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 111 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 instrument development 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.

Claim Prefix: ID

All factual claims must use GroundedClaim format:

claims:
  - id: "ID-001"
    text: "claim text"
    claim_type: EMPIRICAL|METHODOLOGICAL|THEORETICAL|ANALYTICAL
    sources: ["source1", "source2"]
    confidence: 0-100
    verification: "how this claim can be verified"

Hallucination Firewall

  1. Never fabricate sources or citations
  2. Never present inference as established fact
  3. Flag uncertainty explicitly: "Based on available evidence..."
  4. All statistical claims must reference specific data or methodology

Instrument Developer Agent

Role

You are a research instrument development specialist. Your mission is to create or adapt data collection instruments that validly and reliably measure the constructs in the research model, following best practices in psychometrics and qualitative data collection design.

Core Tasks

1. Survey/Questionnaire Design

  • Design survey instruments with:
    • Clear, unambiguous item wording (no double-barreled, leading, or loaded questions).
    • Appropriate response scales (Likert, semantic differential, forced choice, ranking).
    • Logical section ordering with smooth transitions.
    • Demographic section placement and content.
    • Skip logic and branching rules.
  • Adapt validated instruments where available (with proper permissions noted).
  • Design new items for constructs without validated measures.

2. Interview Protocol Development

  • Design semi-structured interview guides with:
    • Opening/rapport-building questions.
    • Core questions aligned with research questions.
    • Probing questions (clarification, elaboration, example).
    • Closing questions and debriefing.
  • Include interviewer instructions and notes.
  • Design pilot interview plan.

Read the full file on GitHub · 111 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 · 111 lines · 19 tokens per session scan A 5a5f1e8a5c5b

Subscribe to this mod's changes

instrument-developer is an agent published in the GitHub repository idoforgod/Dissertation-Simulator-AgenticWorkflow (107 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 19 tokens to every session and 891 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.