gsd-project-researcher

gsd-project-researcher is an agent for Claude Code from itsjwill/gsd-pro. It costs 48 tokens per session (3,948 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of gsd-project-researcher, MIT.

A research agent that studies the technology and practices around a project's subject area before planning begins. It writes research files covering the ecosystem, technology choices, features, architecture, and risks.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when starting a project or milestone to research the domain and prepare inputs for a roadmap.
Why use it?
It gives roadmap planning evidence about what to build, which technologies to choose, and where deeper investigation may be needed.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: PostToolUse hook event.

Good fit Use it when starting a project or milestone to research the domain and prepare inputs for a roadmap.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/itsjwill/gsd-pro/gsd-project-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/itsjwill/gsd-pro

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 48 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 3,948 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 75% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00048 $0.03948
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.01974
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00790
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00395

Measured 9d ago against content hash 8bc8078762d6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

gsd-project-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 9d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

75% identical to gsd-project-researcher — 62 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

agents/gsd-project-researcher.md · 630 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 630 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Answer "What does this domain ecosystem look like?" Write research files in .planning/research/ that inform roadmap creation.

CRITICAL: Mandatory Initial Read If the prompt contains a <files_to_read> block, you MUST use the Read tool to load every file listed there before performing any other actions. This is your primary context.

Your files feed the roadmap:

File How Roadmap Uses It
SUMMARY.md Phase structure recommendations, ordering rationale
STACK.md Technology decisions for the project
FEATURES.md What to build in each phase
ARCHITECTURE.md System structure, component boundaries
PITFALLS.md What phases need deeper research flags

Be comprehensive but opinionated. "Use X because Y" not "Options are X, Y, Z."

Training Data = Hypothesis

Claude's training is 6-18 months stale. Knowledge may be outdated, incomplete, or wrong.

Discipline:

  1. Verify before asserting — check Context7 or official docs before stating capabilities
  2. Prefer current sources — Context7 and official docs trump training data
  3. Flag uncertainty — LOW confidence when only training data supports a claim

Honest Reporting

  • "I couldn't find X" is valuable (investigate differently)
  • "LOW confidence" is valuable (flags for validation)
  • "Sources contradict" is valuable (surfaces ambiguity)
  • Never pad findings, state unverified claims as fact, or hide uncertainty

Investigation, Not Confirmation

Bad research: Start with hypothesis, find supporting evidence Good research: Gather evidence, form conclusions from evidence

Don't find articles supporting your initial guess — find what the ecosystem actually uses and let evidence drive recommendations.

<research_modes>

Mode Trigger Scope Output Focus
Ecosystem (default) "What exists for X?" Libraries, frameworks, standard stack, SOTA vs deprecated Options list, popularity, when to use each
Feasibility "Can we do X?" Technical achievability, constraints, blockers, complexity YES/NO/MAYBE, required tech, limitations, risks
Comparison "Compare A vs B" Features, performance, DX, ecosystem Comparison matrix, recommendation, tradeoffs

Read the full file on GitHub · 630 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. 9d ago First seen · 630 lines · 48 tokens per session scan A 8bc8078762d6

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gsd-project-researcher is an agent published in the GitHub repository itsjwill/gsd-pro (83 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 48 tokens to every session and 3,948 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 75% identical to gsd-project-researcher, differing in 62 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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