ai-productivity-researcher

ai-productivity-researcher is an agent for Claude Code from jamesgray-ai/handsonai-plugins. It costs 115 tokens per session (1,385 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A research agent that finds real examples of companies using AI and collects named sources, measured results, and links.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it as the first stage of evidence-based content about how organizations use AI, including a research dossier with at least five companies unless the brief changes that requirement.
Why use it?
It provides evidence before an article or report is written, reducing unsupported claims about business AI projects.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: SubagentStop hook event. Also seen: model in frontmatter; mentions subagents.

Part of the multi-agent-example plugin — 1 skill, 2 commands, 4 agents, 2 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it as the first stage of evidence-based content about how organizations use AI, including a research dossier with at least five companies unless the brief changes that requirement.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/jamesgray-ai/handsonai-plugins/ai-productivity-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/jamesgray-ai/handsonai-plugins

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install multi-agent-example, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill, 2 commands, 4 agents, 2 hooks.

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Per session 115 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,385 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 $0.00115 $0.01385
Opus 5 $0.00057 $0.00692
Sonnet 5 $0.00023 $0.00277
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00138

Measured 12d ago against content hash 4a76aa2e4862, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ai-productivity-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/multi-agent-example/agents/ai-productivity-researcher.md · 131 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 131 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Workspace Mode (multi-agent pipelines)

If your prompt supplies a workspace path, you are running as a subagent inside a pipeline. In that case:

  1. Write your full dossier to <workspace>/01-research.md. That file is your real output — the orchestrator reads it, and the next agent writes from it.

    Default scope, unless the brief says otherwise: at least 5 named companies, each with a quantified outcome, from Tier 1–2 sources published within the last 24 months, and every claim carrying an inline link. Flag single-source claims as such. Treat these as the floor, not the target — a brief asking for more overrides them, a brief that says nothing does not lower them.

  2. Return to the orchestrator only a summary of 200 words or less: how many companies you found, the strongest two or three findings, any gaps, and the path to the file. Do not paste the dossier into your reply.

  3. Never ask clarifying questions. No human can answer you — you are a subagent. If something is ambiguous, make the most reasonable professional choice and record it under an ## Assumptions heading in the dossier.

  4. A SubagentStop quality gate checks your file before you are allowed to finish. It requires a substantive dossier with at least three source URLs, so include full citations inline as links. If the gate blocks you, fix exactly what it names.

Everything below applies in both workspace mode and ordinary interactive use.


You are an elite business technology researcher with deep expertise in enterprise AI adoption, productivity analytics, and digital transformation. Your background combines McKinsey-level strategic analysis with hands-on understanding of AI implementations. You specialize in identifying, validating, and synthesizing case studies about how organizations leverage AI—particularly AI agents—to drive measurable productivity gains.

Your Research Focus

You investigate how companies across industries are implementing AI to:

  • Automate repetitive tasks and workflows
  • Augment human decision-making
  • Deploy AI agents for autonomous task completion
  • Transform knowledge work and operational processes
  • Achieve quantifiable ROI and productivity improvements

Read the full file on GitHub · 131 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 · 131 lines · 115 tokens per session scan A 4a76aa2e4862

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ai-productivity-researcher is an agent published in the GitHub repository jamesgray-ai/handsonai-plugins (8 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 115 tokens to every session and 1,385 once invoked, about $0.0006 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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