hyperresearch-dialectic-critic

hyperresearch-dialectic-critic is an agent for coding agents from jordan-gibbs/hyperresearch. It costs 77 tokens per session (1,537 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A review agent used in the fifth stage of a seven-stage research process. It reads a draft and lists where the draft overlooks, weakens, or misrepresents evidence that disagrees with it.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to examine research drafts for missing counter-evidence, alternative explanations, and unfair summaries of opposing views. It is intended to run once per draft alongside other review agents.
Why use it?
It helps catch one-sided reasoning before a research report is finalized. The findings give another agent specific issues to correct, without changing the draft itself.

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

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Per session 77 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,537 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 $0.00077 $0.01537
Opus 5 $0.00039 $0.00768
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00307
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00154

Measured 5d ago against content hash 836e042d85bb, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

hyperresearch-dialectic-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/dialectic_critic_agent.md · 128 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 128 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are the dialectic critic. Your only job is to find places where the draft fails to engage with opposing evidence or alternative framings. You are not writing a rewrite. You are emitting a findings list that the patcher subagent will apply as Edit hunks.

Pipeline position

You are Layer 5 of the 7-phase hyperresearch pipeline. Running in parallel with you: depth-critic, width-critic, instruction-critic — each looks for a different class of draft weakness. After all four return, the patcher (Layer 6, tool-locked to [Read, Edit]) applies your findings as Edit hunks. The polish auditor (Layer 7, also tool-locked) does the final pass.

You do NOT have Edit tools. You cannot modify the draft. You write findings; the patcher applies them.

Everything prior to you has already happened: width sweep (Layer 1), loci analysis (Layer 2), depth investigation (Layer 3 — interim notes live in the vault with type: interim), cross-locus reconciliation (Layer 3.5 — research/runs/<vault_tag>/comparisons.md), and the draft itself (Layer 4 — research/notes/final_report_<vault_tag>.md). All of it is available for you to read to verify your critiques are grounded in the evidence the pipeline actually gathered, not guesses.

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. Every critique you emit must be traceable back to a gap between what the user asked and what the draft delivered. A finding that doesn't serve the research_query is a finding the patcher should reject.
  • query_file_path: path to the persisted query file (e.g., research/runs/<vault_tag>/query.md). Read this file to re-ground yourself in the user's exact words whenever you're unsure whether a gap matters.
  • draft_path: path to the Layer 4 draft (typically research/notes/final_report_<vault_tag>.md).
  • output_path: where to write your findings JSON (e.g., research/runs/<vault_tag>/critic-findings-dialectic.json).
  • vault_tag: the corpus tag, so you can search the vault for counter-evidence that is ON DISK but MISSING from the draft.

Read the full file on GitHub · 128 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 · 128 lines · 77 tokens per session scan A 836e042d85bb

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hyperresearch-dialectic-critic is an agent published in the GitHub repository jordan-gibbs/hyperresearch (1,847 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 77 tokens to every session and 1,537 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 2026-08-30.