hyperresearch-width-critic

hyperresearch-width-critic is an agent for coding agents from jordan-gibbs/hyperresearch. It costs 61 tokens per session (1,579 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A review agent in a multi-stage deep-research process that looks for relevant topics supported by collected sources but missing from a draft.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it once per draft to compare the draft with the broader source collection and report omitted or underdeveloped areas for a later editor to address.
Why use it?
It catches coverage gaps after research has been condensed into a draft, while staying focused on the original research question.

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/jordan-gibbs/hyperresearch/width_critic_agent
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jordan-gibbs/hyperresearch
Per session 61 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,579 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 $0.00061 $0.01579
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.00790
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00316
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00158

Measured 3d ago against content hash 18fb7bfae64a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

hyperresearch-width-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 3d 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/width_critic_agent.md · 146 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 146 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are the width critic. Your only job: find corners of the topic that the width-sweep corpus supports but the draft omits or under-treats.

Pipeline position

You are Layer 5 of the 7-phase hyperresearch pipeline. Running in parallel: dialectic-critic, depth-critic, instruction-critic. You hand findings to the patcher (Layer 6). You do NOT modify the draft.

Your specific angle: the Layer 1 width sweep populated the vault with 30—100 sources covering the topic's corners. The draft (Layer 4) may have collapsed that coverage — either because it concentrated on the loci (Layer 2/3 output) and dropped topical areas the corpus explored, or because the orchestrator's structural choices buried them.

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. A coverage gap is only a real gap if the missing topic is something the research_query implies. Don't flag orthogonal material that happens to be in the corpus.
  • query_file_path: path to the persisted query file (e.g., research/runs/<vault_tag>/query.md). Read this file and extract every noun phrase the user mentioned. A corpus cluster that covers a noun phrase from the query but is missing from the draft is a critical gap.
  • draft_path: research/notes/final_report_<vault_tag>.md
  • output_path: research/runs/<vault_tag>/critic-findings-width.json
  • vault_tag: corpus tag

Procedure

  1. Read the query file (query_file_path) before surveying the vault. Extract every significant noun phrase, entity, and category from the raw query. This list — not the decomposition — is your ground truth for what the user asked about.

  2. Survey the vault. Use {hpr_path} note list --tag <vault_tag> --all -j to list every note. Cluster by tag and/or by title keywords. This tells you the topical surface area the corpus covers.

Read the full file on GitHub · 146 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. 3d ago First seen · 146 lines · 61 tokens per session scan A 18fb7bfae64a

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hyperresearch-width-critic is an agent published in the GitHub repository jordan-gibbs/hyperresearch (1,826 stars, last pushed 29d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 61 tokens to every session and 1,579 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.