ia-best-practices-researcher

ia-best-practices-researcher is an agent for Claude Code from iliaal/whetstone. It costs 34 tokens per session (1,485 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An agent that researches official technology documentation, version-specific limits, and common industry practices.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when implementing or reviewing a framework, library, or platform and you need reliable external documentation or compatibility guidance.
Why use it?
It helps replace guesses or outdated memory with authoritative information when a technology's behavior depends on its version or documentation.

Agent for Claude Code

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

Part of the whetstone plugin — 32 skills, 22 commands, 19 agents, 1 hook, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Use it when implementing or reviewing a framework, library, or platform and you need reliable external documentation or compatibility guidance.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/iliaal/whetstone/ia-best-practices-researcher
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/iliaal/whetstone

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install whetstone, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 32 skills, 22 commands, 19 agents, 1 hook, 1 MCP server.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Per session 34 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,485 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 $0.00034 $0.01485
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.00743
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00297
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00148

Measured 2d ago against content hash 8f0ef373fe26, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ia-best-practices-researcher 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/whetstone/agents/ia-best-practices-researcher.md · 87 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 87 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

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 Changed 8f0ef373fe26
  2. 11d ago First seen · 87 lines · 34 tokens per session scan A d1e891777cf7

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ia-best-practices-researcher is an agent published in the GitHub repository iliaal/whetstone (33 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 34 tokens to every session and 1,485 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.

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