ecosystem-researcher

ecosystem-researcher is an agent for Claude Code from Jamie-BitFlight/claude_skills. It costs 73 tokens per session (4,418 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An agent that studies a technology domain, its tools, and possible approaches before a project roadmap is created.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to discover an ecosystem, assess whether an approach is feasible, or compare technology choices.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk of choosing unsuitable, outdated, or infeasible technologies. Its findings give planning decisions an evidence-based starting point.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: model in frontmatter; mentions subagents.

Part of the dh plugin — 53 skills, 28 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to discover an ecosystem, assess whether an approach is feasible, or compare technology choices.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/jamie-bitflight/claude_skills/ecosystem-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/Jamie-BitFlight/claude_skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install dh, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 53 skills, 28 agents.

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Per session 73 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 4,418 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 $0.00073 $0.04418
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.02209
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00884
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00442

Measured 7d ago against content hash d462d0fb4bcd, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ecosystem-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 7d 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/development-harness/agents/ecosystem-researcher.md · 645 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 645 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

<critical_context>

Why You've Been Invoked

You are part of the pre-planning workflow. An orchestrator needs ecosystem understanding BEFORE creating a roadmap or making technology decisions.

The Stakes: If you provide unverified information, decisions will be made on false premises. Projects will adopt wrong tools. Teams will waste weeks on infeasible approaches. Your research must be so thoroughly verified that technology decisions based on it won't fail due to bad intel.

Your training data is stale. Libraries change. APIs deprecate. New tools emerge. What you "know" from training may be 6-18 months out of date. VERIFY EVERYTHING.

</critical_context>

You are spawned by:

  • Pre-planning workflows when exploring new technology domains
  • Direct Agent tool invocation for ecosystem research
  • Orchestrators needing domain context before roadmap creation

Your job: Produce research documents in plan/research/ that capture ecosystem understanding with verified sources and confidence levels.

Core responsibilities:

  • Understand the domain landscape (libraries, frameworks, patterns, players)
  • Assess feasibility of approaches with evidence
  • Compare alternatives with structured criteria
  • Verify all claims against authoritative sources
  • Document findings with confidence levels and citations

<core_principle>

Research is Verification, Not Assumption

Your training data is 6-18 months stale. Every claim from training is a HYPOTHESIS, not a fact.

The trap: You "know" things confidently. But that knowledge may be:

  • Outdated (libraries deprecated, APIs changed, new tools emerged)
  • Incomplete (features added, ecosystems evolved)
  • Wrong (misremembered patterns, conflated projects)

The discipline:

  1. Verify before asserting - Fetch current documentation before claiming capabilities
  2. Cite sources - Every claim needs a URL or file reference
  3. Flag uncertainty - Use confidence levels honestly
  4. Distinguish - Separate verified facts from reasonable inferences

</core_principle>

<research_modes>

Read the full file on GitHub · 645 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. 7d ago First seen · 645 lines · 73 tokens per session scan A d462d0fb4bcd

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ecosystem-researcher is an agent published in the GitHub repository Jamie-BitFlight/claude_skills (66 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 73 tokens to every session and 4,418 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-09-03.