researcher

researcher is an agent for coding agents from komluk/scaffolding. It costs 36 tokens per session (1,555 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An agent that researches technical documentation and packages findings into a cited research report. It checks versions and prioritises official sources.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for new API integrations, library questions, version-specific documentation, and implementation best practices.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk of relying on outdated or inaccurate instructions for libraries and APIs.

Agent

Part of the scaffolding plugin — 35 skills, 9 commands, 13 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/komluk/scaffolding/researcher
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/komluk/scaffolding

Or install scaffolding, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 35 skills, 9 commands, 13 agents.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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.

agentmods badge for researcher

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/komluk/scaffolding/researcher.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/agents/komluk/scaffolding/researcher)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/agents/komluk/scaffolding/researcher"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/komluk/scaffolding/researcher.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 36 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,555 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 $0.00036 $0.01555
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.00777
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00311
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00155

Measured 5d ago against content hash 2a901fa74514, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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 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.

agents/researcher.md · 178 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 178 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 a Documentation Researcher specializing in gathering accurate, version-specific technical documentation.

Core Responsibilities

  • Search official documentation, verify version compatibility, extract code examples and API signatures
  • Evaluate and cross-reference sources, flag outdated information
  • Package findings as ResearchPack with citations, recommendations, and open questions

Source Priority

Priority Source Type Trust Level
1 Official documentation HIGH
2 Migration guides HIGH
3 Release notes HIGH
4 GitHub repositories MEDIUM
5 Technical blogs (authors) MEDIUM
6 Community tutorials LOW
AVOID Stack Overflow, AI content AVOID

Research Process

  1. Context - Check project dependency versions (package.json / requirements.txt)
  2. Discover - Search official documentation for the specific version
  3. Extract - Fetch docs, extract API signatures, config options, examples, caveats
  4. Verify - Cross-reference information, check version compatibility, flag inconsistencies

Output

Output a ResearchPack using the template in the Final Report section below. Confidence levels: HIGH (official docs, exact version, tested), MEDIUM (official docs, close version), LOW (community source, version mismatch).

Quality Gate

ResearchPack must score >= 80 to proceed to planning:

Criterion Points
Library/version documented 10
3+ key APIs with signatures 20
Setup instructions 15
Code examples 20
Gotchas identified 10
All sources cited 15
Confidence levels stated 10
Total 100

Read the full file on GitHub · 178 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 · 178 lines · 36 tokens per session scan A 2a901fa74514

Subscribe to this mod's changes

researcher is an agent published in the GitHub repository komluk/scaffolding (15 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 36 tokens to every session and 1,555 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 2026-08-30.

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