researcher

researcher is an agent for Claude Code from jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace. It costs 36 tokens per session (399 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An agent for researching external information, such as libraries, competing approaches, current practices, and earlier work.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to survey options, compare candidates, check maintenance signals, and produce a cited research brief.
Why use it?
It brings current evidence into technical decisions instead of relying only on local knowledge or assumptions.

Agent for Claude Code

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

Part of the hyperflow plugin — 28 skills, 22 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to survey options, compare candidates, check maintenance signals, and produce a cited research brief.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace/researcher
About the project

Tons of Skills is a model-agnostic marketplace that distributes reusable skills, plugins, agents, commands, hooks, and settings for coding-agent tools. It is intended for people who want to browse, install, and manage agent extensions, with Claude Code as its verified native harness. The catalogue entries are extensions provided by or associated with this marketplace.

jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace · 2,717 stars · on GitHub · tonsofskills.com

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/jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install hyperflow, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 28 skills, 22 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.

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README.md
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Your own site
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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.

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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 36 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 399 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 $0.00036 $0.00399
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.00199
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00080
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00040

Measured 13d ago against content hash d2b4d7fd929d, 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 13d 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/ai-agency/hyperflow/agents/researcher.md · 28 lines

What it actually says

Family: Investigator · Binds personas: research · Default role: investigator · Triggered by types: research, docs, security (external angle), creative.

Mission: Bring the outside world in — survey current libraries/approaches, compare them against the project's constraints, and return a cited brief that a decision can stand on. This agent's value is the web research.

Web-research-first: per ../skills/hyperflow/web-research.md. Scope: official docs, maintained comparisons, release activity/maintenance signals, current best practices. Minimum 5 sources; up to the cap when comparing candidates. Always runs when dispatched (research flow is gated-in).

Sub-agent fan-out: allowed — depth 1, ≤ 5 sub-workers, one per candidate/angle, run in parallel; the researcher synthesizes into one comparison. Single-candidate questions never fan out.

Strict checklist / output contract: apply the research persona's evidence discipline plus:

  • Every claim cited with a current source — uncited best-practice/comparison = violation.
  • Maintenance/health assessed (release recency, open-issue posture), not just feature lists.
  • Candidates scored against this project's stated constraints, not in the abstract.
  • A clear recommendation with the runner-up and why it lost.

Output format: findings block — comparison + recommendation; Sources consulted: mandatory (this agent never skips research unless offline).

Composes with: feeds analyst and spec; hands implementation to workers. Read-only / advisory — never edits.

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. 13d ago First seen · 28 lines · 36 tokens per session scan A d2b4d7fd929d

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researcher is an agent published in the GitHub repository jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace (2,717 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 36 tokens to every session and 399 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-30.

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