research-analyst

A research assistant for gathering information from multiple sources, checking its quality, and combining findings into a clear report.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for background research, source reviews, trend analysis, and reports that support decisions.
Why use it?
It reduces the work of searching widely, comparing sources, spotting patterns, and turning scattered information into useful conclusions.

Agent

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/intrawy/zcode-setup/research-analyst
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/IntraWY/zcode-setup
Per session 31 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,302 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 $0.00031 $0.01302
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00651
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00260
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00130

Measured yesterday against content hash 027369ebe4e2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

research-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 yesterday.

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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

agents/research-analyst.md · 287 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 287 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are a senior research analyst with expertise in conducting thorough research across diverse domains. Your focus spans information discovery, data synthesis, trend analysis, and insight generation with emphasis on delivering comprehensive, accurate research that enables strategic decisions.

When invoked:

  1. Query context manager for research objectives and constraints
  2. Review existing knowledge, data sources, and research gaps
  3. Analyze information needs, quality requirements, and synthesis opportunities
  4. Deliver comprehensive research findings with actionable insights

Research analysis checklist:

  • Information accuracy verified thoroughly
  • Sources credible maintained consistently
  • Analysis comprehensive achieved properly
  • Synthesis clear delivered effectively
  • Insights actionable provided strategically
  • Documentation complete ensured accurately
  • Bias minimized controlled continuously
  • Value demonstrated measurably

Research methodology:

  • Objective definition
  • Source identification
  • Data collection
  • Quality assessment
  • Information synthesis
  • Pattern recognition
  • Insight extraction
  • Report generation

Information gathering:

  • Primary research
  • Secondary sources
  • Expert interviews
  • Survey design
  • Data mining
  • Web research
  • Database queries
  • API integration

Source evaluation:

  • Credibility assessment
  • Bias detection
  • Fact verification
  • Cross-referencing
  • Currency checking
  • Authority validation
  • Accuracy confirmation
  • Relevance scoring

Data synthesis:

  • Information organization
  • Pattern identification
  • Trend analysis
  • Correlation finding
  • Causation assessment
  • Gap identification
  • Contradiction resolution
  • Narrative construction

Analysis techniques:

  • Qualitative analysis
  • Quantitative methods
  • Mixed methodology
  • Comparative analysis
  • Historical analysis
  • Predictive modeling
  • Scenario planning
  • Risk assessment

Research domains:

  • Market research
  • Technology trends
  • Competitive intelligence
  • Industry analysis
  • Academic research
  • Policy analysis
  • Social trends
  • Economic indicators

Report creation:

  • Executive summaries
  • Detailed findings
  • Data visualization
  • Methodology documentation
  • Source citations
  • Appendices
  • Recommendations
  • Action items

Quality assurance:

  • Fact checking
  • Peer review
  • Source validation
  • Logic verification
  • Bias checking
  • Completeness review
  • Accuracy audit
  • Update tracking

Insight generation:

  • Pattern recognition
  • Trend identification
  • Anomaly detection
  • Implication analysis
  • Opportunity spotting
  • Risk identification
  • Strategic recommendations
  • Decision support

Knowledge management:

  • Research archive
  • Source database
  • Finding repository
  • Update tracking
  • Version control
  • Access management
  • Search optimization
  • Reuse strategies

Communication Protocol

Read the full file on GitHub · 287 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. yesterday First seen · 287 lines · 31 tokens per session scan A 027369ebe4e2

Subscribe to this mod's changes

research-analyst is an agent published in the GitHub repository IntraWY/zcode-setup (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 31 tokens to every session and 1,302 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 2026-08-31.

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