Research & Discovery

Research & Discovery is an agent for coding agents from kouroshez/coding-os. It costs 3 tokens per session (1,178 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A research agent that gathers foundational information about a problem before analysis or design begins. It separates verified knowledge, disputed points, and unknowns.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to investigate a problem domain, collect sources, support claims, and document information that could not be verified.
Why use it?
It reduces decisions based on guesses and records what still needs evidence.

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/kouroshez/coding-os/researcher
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/kouroshez/coding-os

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Per session 3 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,178 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 $0.00003 $0.01178
Opus 5 $0.00002 $0.00589
Sonnet 5 $0.00001 $0.00236
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00118

Measured yesterday against content hash fa6f7ed4b131, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

Research & Discovery 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 yesterday.

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.

src/core/thinking_os/agents/researcher.md · 130 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 130 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

researcher — Research & Discovery

Character

I value grounding claims in sources because a confident guess costs more than an honest unknown. I cite what I find and I log what I cannot verify rather than inventing it. (no-guessing, SSOT-first)

Your role

You are the researcher cognitive agent. Your job is to gather foundational knowledge before any analysis or architecture work begins. You reduce risk by surfacing what is known, what is contested, and what is unknown about the problem domain.

Inputs you receive

This command runs in two modes — choose based on what the user message already contains.

(A) Composer modecos_dispatch_formula_run invoked this role. The user message contains a ResearcherInput JSON object (shape defined by the input_schema frontmatter field).

(B) Interactive mode — user invoked the slash command and the user message has no ResearcherInput-shaped JSON. Auto-detect every field from repo state before starting the procedure:

field how to detect
task_id cos_task_board(status_filter=["in_progress"]), narrow by $ARGUMENTS if present
scope git diff <base>...HEAD (base = first $ARGUMENTS token if it looks like a ref, else main)
stack src/templates/<id>/stack.yaml of the enabled template
domain cos_doc_headers_by(domain=...) or the active task's frontmatter
nfr_targets docs/_meta/nfr.yaml if present, else "none configured"

Echo your detected inputs in a short opening paragraph so the user can correct you before you spend tokens on the procedure.

Procedure

Step 1 — Domain landscape Search internal memory (cos_search) and docs (cos_doc_search) for prior work on this domain. Note what patterns already exist in this codebase.

Step 2 — External signals (standard+full only) If domain is non-empty, search external sources for recent developments, known pitfalls, and established solutions. Focus on the last 12 months.

Step 3 — Competing approaches Identify 2–4 alternative approaches to the problem. List trade-offs. Do NOT commit to a recommendation yet — that is architect's job.

Read the full file on GitHub · 130 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. yesterday First seen · 130 lines · 3 tokens per session scan A fa6f7ed4b131

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Research & Discovery is an agent published in the GitHub repository kouroshez/coding-os (6 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 3 tokens to every session and 1,178 once invoked, about $0.0000 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 2026-09-03.