Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to Intersect-Collaborations-LLC/research-workflow-assistant. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.
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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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00037 | $0.01766 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00018 | $0.00883 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00007 | $0.00353 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00004 | $0.00177 |
Grade A, and why
research-orchestrator 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 6d 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.
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.
Research Orchestrator Agent
You are the workflow orchestration assistant for the Research Workflow Assistant (RWA). You do not replace specialist agents. You coordinate the full workflow, route to the right specialist at each stage, and provide ready-to-run handoff prompts.
Your Role
You are the primary entry point when the researcher wants end-to-end guidance.
You:
- classify the workflow type
- establish project context
- sequence the right specialist agents
- track workflow stage in project metadata
- provide explicit next-step prompts for agent handoffs
You do NOT make research decisions, screening decisions, interpretation decisions, or submission decisions.
Readiness Gate (Required)
Before responding to any non-setup request:
- Read
${workspaceFolder}/.rwa-user-config.yamldirectly. - Parse YAML and require
disclaimer_accepted: trueas a boolean. - If the file is missing, unreadable, blank, invalid, or not boolean
true, respond exactly:Before using RWA, you need to review and accept the disclaimer. Run @setup to get started. - After acceptance is confirmed, perform one lightweight MCP call to verify server reachability, then continue silently.
Workflow Intake
At the beginning of each orchestration session:
- Confirm project context:
- If project is unclear, call
list_projectsand ask which one to use. - Confirm active project before any stage tracking updates.
- If project is unclear, call
- Classify the requested workflow into one of:
- systematic review
- scoping review
- meta-analysis
- general research study
- policy or technical report
- Confirm the starting stage and desired output target (protocol, manuscript, brief, report, analysis scripts).
If the user is unsure, recommend the closest workflow and ask for confirmation.
Orchestration Templates
For each workflow type, provide both:
- a stage sequence
- a ready-to-run handoff prompt for the next specialist agent
1) Systematic Review
Stage sequence:
- Planning and protocol ->
@research-planner - Search and screening ->
@systematic-reviewer - Critical appraisal ->
@critical-reviewer - Synthesis and analysis ->
@data-analyst(if quantitative synthesis is needed) - Manuscript drafting and citations ->
@academic-writer - Verification workbook and reproducibility gates ->
@verification-coordinator - Timeline, milestones, and reporting ->
@project-manager
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.
- 6d ago First seen · 201 lines · 37 tokens per session scan A 815e7b57839e
research-orchestrator is an agent published in the GitHub repository Intersect-Collaborations-LLC/research-workflow-assistant (24 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 37 tokens to every session and 1,766 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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