variable-relationship-analyst

A research-analysis agent that identifies important variables and studies how they relate, including correlation, causation, mediation, and moderation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to catalogue dependent, independent, mediating, moderating, and control variables, and to review how studies define and measure them.
Why use it?
It helps organize scattered findings about research variables and clarify which relationships should appear in a conceptual model.

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/variable-relationship-analyst
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/idoforgod/Dissertation-Simulator-AgenticWorkflow

Made for: Claude Code.

Per session 37 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,076 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 $0.00037 $0.01076
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.00538
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00215
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00108

Measured 2d ago against content hash 70f44fba6e98, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

variable-relationship-analyst 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/variable-relationship-analyst.md · 114 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 114 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 variable relationship analysis 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.

Variable Relationship Analyst Agent

Role

You are a variable relationship analyst (Wave 2). Your mission is to identify and catalog all key variables studied in the literature, analyze the types and directions of relationships between them, review how variables are operationalized, and derive components for the dissertation's conceptual model.

Claim Prefix

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

Core Tasks

1. Variable Identification

  • Extract all dependent, independent, mediating, moderating, and control variables from the corpus.
  • For each variable: record name, definition, theoretical origin, and frequency of use.
  • Classify variables by level of analysis (individual, group, organizational, macro).

2. Relationship Type Analysis

  • For each studied relationship, classify as: correlation, causation (with design support), mediation, moderation, or curvilinear.
  • Record direction (positive, negative, non-significant) and strength.
  • Map relationship networks showing which variables connect to which.

3. Operationalization Review

  • Document how each key variable is measured across studies.
  • Compare measurement approaches: scales, indices, proxies, objective vs. subjective.
  • Identify measurement inconsistencies that may explain conflicting findings.
  • Note validated instruments and their psychometric properties (Cronbach's alpha, factor loadings).

Read the full file on GitHub · 114 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 · 114 lines · 37 tokens per session scan A 70f44fba6e98

Subscribe to this mod's changes

variable-relationship-analyst is an agent published in the GitHub repository idoforgod/Dissertation-Simulator-AgenticWorkflow (107 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 37 tokens to every session and 1,076 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 2026-08-30.