research-agent

research-agent is an agent for Claude Code from larrygmaguire-hash/prima-scholar. It costs 57 tokens per session (1,060 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

An automated research assistant that breaks a broad question into smaller tasks, searches academic sources and library collections, follows references between papers, and writes a combined summary with APA 7 citations. Academic databases contain published research, while citation chains connect related papers through their references.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for deep research, systematic reviews, and questions that span several areas of academic literature.
Why use it?
It reduces the manual work of finding relevant studies, checking their sources, and combining their findings. It is intended for research questions that need more than a quick search.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Part of the prima-scholar plugin — 4 skills, 4 commands, 3 agents, 2 MCP servers shipped together

Good fit Use it for deep research, systematic reviews, and questions that span several areas of academic literature.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/larrygmaguire-hash/prima-scholar/research-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.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/larrygmaguire-hash/prima-scholar

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install prima-scholar, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 4 skills, 4 commands, 3 agents, 2 MCP servers.

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.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 57 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,060 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin unknown 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 5.1 $0.00057 $0.01060
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.00530
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00212
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00106

Measured 6d ago against content hash 786fbffc16ea, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

research-agent 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 6d 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/research-agent.md · 109 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

Read it on GitHub

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. 6d ago Changed · -1 lines 786fbffc16ea
  2. 10d ago First seen · 110 lines · 57 tokens per session scan A 8251f808af6e

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research-agent is an agent published in the GitHub repository larrygmaguire-hash/prima-scholar (4 stars, last pushed 7d ago), with no licence file. It adds 57 tokens to every session and 1,060 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 2026-08-31.