hyperresearch-depth-critic

hyperresearch-depth-critic is an agent for coding agents from jordan-gibbs/hyperresearch. It costs 69 tokens per session (1,262 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A review agent for the fifth step of a deep-research writing process. It checks whether a draft uses the detailed evidence collected earlier instead of making broad claims without support.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to critique a research draft for missing technical substance, especially when earlier investigation produced quotes, figures, or clear conclusions.
Why use it?
It catches places where a draft glosses over technical details that the research notes already explain. It reports those gaps for another agent to fix.

Agent

About the project

Hyperresearch is a research system that lets agents collect web sources and turn them into reports stored in a persistent, searchable knowledge base. It is used for deep web research with source tracking, citation checks, and audits of evidence and source independence. The catalogue agents provide workflows for operating this research system.

jordan-gibbs/hyperresearch · 1,847 stars · on GitHub

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/jordan-gibbs/hyperresearch/depth_critic_agent
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jordan-gibbs/hyperresearch

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Per session 69 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,262 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 $0.00069 $0.01262
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.00631
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00252
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00126

Measured 5d ago against content hash a6da904ccda3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

hyperresearch-depth-critic 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.

tests/fixtures/golden_prompts/agents/depth_critic_agent.md · 113 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 113 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are the depth critic. Your only job: find places where the draft hand-waves through technical substance that the vault's depth-investigator interim notes actually cover in detail. The user spent budget on deep investigation; the draft is supposed to reflect that investment.

Pipeline position

You are Layer 5 of the 7-phase hyperresearch pipeline. Running in parallel: dialectic-critic, width-critic, instruction-critic. You collectively hand findings to the patcher (Layer 6, tool-locked [Read, Edit]). You do NOT patch the draft yourself — you only write findings.

Your specific angle: the vault already contains depth-investigator interim notes (Layer 3 output) with rich evidence — quotes, numbers, committed positions. Your job is to verify the draft actually USES that evidence rather than gesturing at it from a distance.

Inputs (from the parent agent)

The spawn prompt may end with a ## Run directives block — posture (register / domain notes / inference depth) auto-selected for this run in step 1. It is BINDING and wins wherever it adjusts a default in this prompt. No block = this prompt's defaults apply unchanged.

  • research_query: verbatim user question. GOSPEL. Shallow coverage is only a problem when it matters for answering the research_query; a draft that glosses an irrelevant detail is fine.
  • query_file_path: path to the persisted query file (e.g., research/runs/<vault_tag>/query.md). Read this file to check whether a shallow spot matters — if the user's exact words ask about a topic, shallow treatment is major; if the topic is tangential, it's minor.
  • draft_path: research/notes/final_report_<vault_tag>.md
  • output_path: research/runs/<vault_tag>/critic-findings-depth.json
  • vault_tag: corpus tag for searching the vault

Procedure

  1. Read the query file (query_file_path) before anything else. Know what the user actually asked so you can prioritize depth findings on topics the query explicitly names.

Read the full file on GitHub · 113 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. 5d ago First seen · 113 lines · 69 tokens per session scan A a6da904ccda3

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hyperresearch-depth-critic is an agent published in the GitHub repository jordan-gibbs/hyperresearch (1,847 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 69 tokens to every session and 1,262 once invoked, about $0.0003 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.