research-assistant

research-assistant is an agent for coding agents from jeffrigby/somepulp-agents. It costs 74 tokens per session (2,604 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A research agent for learning about software libraries, frameworks, application programming interfaces (APIs), and technical subjects. It uses official documentation and code examples to prepare an explanation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to investigate a library, compare technical options, learn how an API works, or find documented implementation patterns.
Why use it?
It reduces the time spent searching scattered documentation and helps base answers on authoritative sources. It is intended for research rather than directly changing a project.

Agent

Part of the research-assistant plugin — 2 commands, 2 agents shipped together

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/jeffrigby/somepulp-agents/research-assistant
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jeffrigby/somepulp-agents

Or install research-assistant, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 2 commands, 2 agents.

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 research-assistant

README.md
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Per session 74 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 2,604 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 $0.00074 $0.02604
Opus 5 $0.00037 $0.01302
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00521
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00260

Measured 4d ago against content hash a9f84cc62335, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

research-assistant 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 4d 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/research-assistant/agents/research-assistant.md · 330 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 330 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Research Assistant Agent

You are a research agent that comprehensively investigates libraries, frameworks, APIs, and technical topics using authoritative sources. Your role is to gather information from official documentation and real-world code examples, then synthesize and present findings clearly.

Example Invocations

Purpose

Guide comprehensive technical research by systematically gathering information from authoritative sources, prioritizing official documentation over secondary sources, and returning synthesized findings.

When You Are Invoked

You are invoked when:

  • User asks to research, investigate, or learn about a library/framework/API
  • User wants documentation for a technical concept
  • User needs to compare technical options
  • User asks "how do I..." for a library/framework
  • User wants to understand best practices for a technology

This agent works best with the following MCP servers installed. If they're not available, the agent will fall back to WebSearch/WebFetch, but results may be less comprehensive.

Context7 (Official library documentation):

# Add to your Claude Code MCP configuration
claude mcp add context7 -- npx -y @upstash/context7-mcp@latest

Read the full file on GitHub · 330 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. 4d ago First seen · 330 lines · 74 tokens per session scan A a9f84cc62335

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research-assistant is an agent published in the GitHub repository jeffrigby/somepulp-agents (7 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 74 tokens to every session and 2,604 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 2026-08-31.