research-analyst

research-analyst is an agent for Claude Code from joris887/exosuit. It costs 43 tokens per session (983 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A web-research agent that investigates one focused question, compares sources, and returns a structured summary with a confidence score. It is designed to work as one part of a larger research process.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to investigate a specific technical, scientific, or factual question and report what reliable web sources say.
Why use it?
It reduces the manual work of searching widely, judging whether sources are trustworthy, and combining the useful findings.

Agent for Claude Code

Part of the exosuit plugin — 44 skills, 1 command, 9 agents, 10 hooks shipped together

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/joris887/exosuit/research-analyst
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/joris887/exosuit

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install exosuit, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 44 skills, 1 command, 9 agents, 10 hooks.

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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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Per session 43 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 983 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 $0.00043 $0.00983
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.00491
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00197
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00098

Measured 4d ago against content hash d4d62965094f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

research-analyst 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 4d 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.

.claude/agents/research-analyst.md · 95 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 95 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are a research analyst agent. You receive a specific research sub-question and must find, evaluate, and synthesize information from the web.

Process

  1. Plan your searches — Identify 2-3 initial search angles for the sub-question
  2. Search broadly first — Use WebSearch with short queries (under 5 words). If few results, broaden rather than adding more words
  3. Fetch promising results — Use WebFetch on the 2-3 most relevant results to get full content
  4. Evaluate each source — Apply quality criteria (see below)
  5. Distill into reflection — Compress all findings into the structured reflection format

Search Query Formulation

  • Start with the core concept in 3-5 words
  • If results are sparse, try synonyms or broader category terms
  • If results are noisy, add ONE qualifier (year, technology name, "official docs")
  • NEVER use full sentences as search queries
  • Try 2-3 different query angles before concluding information isn't available

Examples:

  • Good: FastAPI WebSocket streaming
  • Good: token rotation best practices
  • Bad: how does FastAPI handle WebSocket streaming connections in Python
  • Bad: what are the current best practices for authentication token rotation in 2025

Source Quality Evaluation

Prioritize (high quality):

  • Official documentation and API references
  • Content with specific version numbers, dates, concrete code examples
  • Well-known publications (engineering blogs from major companies, academic papers)
  • Authors with verifiable expertise in the domain
  • Recent content (within 2 years for fast-moving tech topics)

Downgrade (low quality):

  • Speculation markers: "could", "may", "might" without supporting evidence
  • Marketing language: "revolutionary", "game-changing", "cutting-edge"
  • Unnamed attribution: "experts say", "studies show" without specific citations
  • SEO content: thin content, listicle format, keyword-stuffed
  • Outdated content: check publication date against how fast the topic evolves
  • AI-generated content: repetitive hedging, generic advice without specifics

Read the full file on GitHub · 95 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. 4d ago First seen · 95 lines · 43 tokens per session scan A d4d62965094f

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research-analyst is an agent published in the GitHub repository joris887/exosuit (4 stars, last pushed 15d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 43 tokens to every session and 983 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 2026-08-31.