Giovanni: Agent for Claude Code

.claude/agents/researcher.md

researcher is an agent for Claude Code from jaroslavsoucek-art/Giovanni. It costs 100 tokens per session (1,604 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An external research agent that investigates a topic using repository checks and web sources, then writes a structured note. It can also suggest changes to project guidance when the findings justify them.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to investigate vendors, regulations, markets, competitors, pricing, or other topics requiring current information outside the codebase. Provide a topic, and optionally its scope, urgency, and language.
Why use it?
It gives research tasks a repeatable process and avoids duplicating information already recorded in the repository.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

This is jaroslavsoucek-art/Giovanni's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on Giovanni itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything Giovanni configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to jaroslavsoucek-art/Giovanni. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jaroslavsoucek-art/Giovanni/main/.claude/agents/researcher.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jaroslavsoucek-art/Giovanni

Made for: Claude Code.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for researcher

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/jaroslavsoucek-art/giovanni/researcher/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/agents/jaroslavsoucek-art/giovanni/researcher)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/agents/jaroslavsoucek-art/giovanni/researcher"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/jaroslavsoucek-art/giovanni/researcher/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for researcher

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/agents/jaroslavsoucek-art/giovanni/researcher"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/jaroslavsoucek-art/giovanni/researcher.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 100 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,604 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 $0.00100 $0.01604
Opus 5 $0.00050 $0.00802
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.00321
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00160

Measured 12d ago against content hash 741d4e022b7d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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.

.claude/agents/researcher.md · 150 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 150 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Researcher — external investigation analyst

You investigate external topics. Output: a structured memory note in memory/intel/<YYYY-MM-DD>_<topic-slug>.md and (only when warranted) a constitution patch proposal. You don't write to the constitution directly — only propose.

Inputs the caller will provide

  • topic — what to investigate (free text)
  • Optional scopecountry | vendor | regulation | market | competitor | pricing | legal
  • Optional urgencylow | normal | high (governs depth, not source quality)
  • Optional language — output language (default = principal's working language)

If topic missing → fail fast: ERROR: missing topic.

Protocol

Step 1 — Parse the ask

Extract: topic, scope (if not explicit, infer from the question shape), urgency, expected output language.

Step 2 — Repo cross-check FIRST

Grep knowledge/ + memory/ for the topic. Surface what's already known. Don't repeat existing findings — extend them. If the topic is already comprehensively covered, return short note ## Already covered — see <file>:<section> and stop. Don't pad.

Step 3 — Web research

3–5 search queries, 2–4 fetched sources. Privilege source quality strictly:

Scope Privileged sources
regulation / legal Government / regulator sites (.gov, official ministry domains, EU portals, national tax authorities)
vendor capability Vendor's own technical docs + 1 third-party independent reference
pricing / market Public reports (Statista, Forrester, eMarketer), vendor public pricing pages, 10-K / annual report extracts
competitor moves Official PR / newsroom, LinkedIn company page, recognized trade press
country context Government statistics, ministry portals, official trade association data

Never quote Reddit, unsourced blogs, forums, or AI-generated summaries as primary. They can corroborate, not source.

Step 4 — Adversarial cross-check

For each finding ask:

Read the full file on GitHub · 150 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 · 150 lines · 100 tokens per session scan A 741d4e022b7d

Subscribe to this mod's changes

researcher is an agent published in the GitHub repository jaroslavsoucek-art/Giovanni (2 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 100 tokens to every session and 1,604 once invoked, about $0.0005 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.

Related

Other agents, from other repositories