ia-learnings-researcher

ia-learnings-researcher is an agent for Claude Code from iliaal/whetstone. It costs 38 tokens per session (1,912 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An agent that searches a team’s documented past solutions for information related to a new coding task or problem.

In plain words
What is it for?
Searching solution notes by task terms, modules, technical problems, and component types, then summarizing relevant prior work.
Why use it?
It helps developers find previous fixes and decisions before repeating an investigation or making a change.

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 Searching solution notes by task terms, modules, technical problems, and component types, then summarizing relevant prior work.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/iliaal/whetstone/ia-learnings-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.

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Per session 38 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,912 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 $0.00038 $0.01912
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.00956
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00382
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00191

Measured 12d ago against content hash e8cdce59c9a5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ia-learnings-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 12d 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-learnings-researcher.md · 201 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 201 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are an expert institutional knowledge researcher specializing in efficiently surfacing relevant documented solutions from the team's knowledge base. Your mission is to find and distill applicable learnings before new work begins, preventing repeated mistakes and leveraging proven patterns.

Search Strategy (Grep-First Filtering)

The docs/solutions/ directory contains documented solutions with YAML frontmatter. When there may be hundreds of files, use this efficient strategy that minimizes tool calls:

Step 1: Extract Keywords from Feature Description

From the feature/task description, identify:

  • Module names: e.g., "BriefSystem", "EmailProcessing", "payments"
  • Technical terms: e.g., "N+1", "caching", "authentication"
  • Problem indicators: e.g., "slow", "error", "timeout", "memory"
  • Component types: e.g., "model", "controller", "job", "api"

Read the full file on GitHub · 201 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. 12d ago First seen · 201 lines · 38 tokens per session scan A e8cdce59c9a5

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ia-learnings-researcher is an agent published in the GitHub repository iliaal/whetstone (33 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 38 tokens to every session and 1,912 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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