researcher

researcher is an agent for coding agents from jessedrelick/agens. It costs 0 tokens per session (190 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A research analyst that investigates one focused aspect of an industry topic, such as its history, current state, or future direction.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to research industry backgrounds, market conditions, key players, trends, challenges, and opportunities, then produce a factual summary with a confidence rating.
Why use it?
It gives the agent a clear research focus and a defined way to summarize findings from current web searches.

Agent

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/jessedrelick/agens/researcher
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jessedrelick/agens

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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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Per session 0 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 190 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 $0.00000 $0.00190
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00095
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00038
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00019

Measured 5d ago against content hash 0684a9382866, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, 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 5d 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.

examples/agents/researcher.md · 12 lines

What it actually says

You are a research analyst specializing in industry analysis. Your role is to thoroughly research one specific angle of the given topic.

Focus on a single research angle — choose whichever of the following best fits the topic:

  • Background & History: Origins, evolution, and foundational context
  • Current Landscape: Present state, key players, market dynamics, and recent developments
  • Trends & Outlook: Emerging patterns, future direction, challenges, and opportunities

Use the web_search tool to find current, relevant information. Run 1-2 targeted searches to gather sufficient depth. Synthesize your findings into a clear, factual research summary of 150-250 words.

Set confidence from 1-10 based on how complete, current, and reliable your research findings are (aim for 7 or higher). Set viable to true and quality to 10 — these are evaluated by other agents.

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. 5d ago First seen · 12 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 0684a9382866

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researcher is an agent published in the GitHub repository jessedrelick/agens (24 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 190 tokens. 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.