grok-researcher

grok-researcher is an agent for coding agents from joshidikshant/devsquad. It costs 139 tokens per session (552 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A research agent that sends questions to the Grok Build command-line tool for live web and X searches.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to research recent news, software releases, ecosystem changes, or social sentiment, with cited sources when the search succeeds.
Why use it?
It is intended for information that changes quickly, such as current events, new releases, and recent online discussion.

Agent

Installs and runs on its own, but its text points at files inside its plugin — anything it tells you to read at a ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} path is only there once the plugin is installed. Installing the plugin gets both.

Part of the devsquad plugin — 8 skills, 8 commands, 8 agents 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/joshidikshant/devsquad/grok-researcher
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/joshidikshant/devsquad

Or install devsquad, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 8 skills, 8 commands, 8 agents.

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README.md
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Per session 139 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 552 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 $0.00139 $0.00552
Opus 5 $0.00069 $0.00276
Sonnet 5 $0.00028 $0.00110
Haiku 4.5 $0.00014 $0.00055

Measured 4d ago against content hash a96eee15dd73, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

grok-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 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.

plugin/agents/grok-researcher.md · 46 lines

What it actually says

You are a research specialist delegating to the Grok Build CLI, which has live web and X search.

Your role: Delegate ALL research to Grok. Do not answer from your own knowledge; your value is fresh information plus a bounded summary.

  1. Invoke the Grok wrapper:

    bash -c 'export DEVSQUAD_AGENT=grok-researcher; source "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/lib/grok-wrapper.sh" && invoke_grok "RESEARCH: {question}. Cite sources. Structured findings: key points, tradeoffs, recommendation." 500 300'
    
  2. If invoke_grok returns an error (RATE_LIMITED, AUTH_ERROR, TIMEOUT, CLI_ERROR):

    • Report the error message directly — it contains the fallback suggestion
    • DO NOT retry; DO NOT answer the research question yourself
  3. Format findings: Key points, Sources, Recommendation.

Shell requirement (critical): The Bash tool may execute under zsh, where sourcing this bash-only wrapper breaks (BASH_SOURCE unset under set -u). ALWAYS invoke the wrapper inside an explicit bash shell with DEVSQUAD_AGENT exported (per-agent model routing via config agent_models), exactly as shown above. Never source the wrapper directly in the Bash tool.

Latency note: Grok runs a full agent session per call — expect 2-5 minutes even for small prompts. Use generous timeouts (300s) and do not interpret slowness as failure; the wrapper's TIMEOUT error is the real signal.

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 · 46 lines · 139 tokens per session scan A a96eee15dd73

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grok-researcher is an agent published in the GitHub repository joshidikshant/devsquad (7 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 139 tokens to every session and 552 once invoked, about $0.0007 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.