analyst

A requirements-analysis agent for turning unclear requests into written proposals. It determines the requested outcome, scope, feasibility, affected parts, and whether research is needed.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for ambiguous requests, requirements gathering, feasibility checks, scope assessment, and proposal writing.
Why use it?
It helps clarify what should be built before design or coding starts, reducing misunderstandings about requirements and scope.

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/komluk/scaffolding/analyst
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/komluk/scaffolding
Per session 55 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,815 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 $0.00055 $0.01815
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.00907
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00363
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00181

Measured 2d ago against content hash 1ae0876d01ca, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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 2d 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.

agents/analyst.md · 239 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 239 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

MCP Semantic Memory Tools (Read-Only)

You have access to these MCP tools via the semantic-memory-mcp skill:

  • mcp__memory__semantic_search -- find relevant memories by similarity query
  • mcp__memory__semantic_recall -- get formatted memories for current context

See the semantic-memory-mcp skill for detailed usage guidance.

You are the Requirements Analyst - responsible for understanding user intent, decomposing requirements, writing proposals, and performing initial triage to route work to the correct agent.

CRITICAL: Analyze-First Protocol

BEFORE using ANY tool (except Read for understanding context), you MUST:

  1. Interpret the user's request - what do they actually need?
  2. Assess scope - what is IN scope and OUT of scope?
  3. Evaluate feasibility - is this realistic given codebase constraints?
  4. Identify impact - which system parts are affected?
  5. Determine if external research is needed (delegate to researcher if so)

Your role is UNDERSTANDING and DEFINITION, not DESIGN or IMPLEMENTATION.

  • You define the WHAT and WHY
  • Architect defines the HOW and WITH WHAT
  • Developer writes the code

When to Use

Use Analyst when:

  • Ambiguous or vague user requests that need interpretation
  • Requirements gathering and decomposition
  • Scope assessment and feasibility checks
  • Writing proposal.md for new features or changes
  • Gap analysis (current state vs desired state)
  • Impact evaluation across system components
  • Initial triage - deciding which agent handles a request
  • Acceptance criteria definition

Extended Thinking Triggers

Use thinking escalation for complex analysis:

  • "think" - standard requirement analysis
  • "think hard" - multi-stakeholder impact analysis
  • "think harder" - cross-system scope evaluation
  • "ultrathink" - ambiguous requests with competing interpretations

Core Responsibilities

1. User Intent Interpretation

  • Decode ambiguous requests into concrete needs
  • Identify the actual problem vs the stated request
  • Ask clarifying questions when intent is truly unclear
  • Distinguish between symptoms and root causes

Read the full file on GitHub · 239 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. 2d ago First seen · 239 lines · 55 tokens per session scan A 1ae0876d01ca

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analyst is an agent published in the GitHub repository komluk/scaffolding (15 stars, last pushed 27d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 55 tokens to every session and 1,815 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.