research-agent

research-agent is an agent for Claude Code from lglucas/ai-dev-operating-system. It costs 94 tokens per session (142 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A general research agent that gathers information from credible sources and separates confirmed facts from conclusions, assumptions, and unanswered questions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for source-backed research outside the specialised market and competitor work, with findings saved in knowledge-base/.
Why use it?
It makes clear which parts of a project are verified and which still need evidence, reducing accidental invention.

Agent for Claude Code

Part of the ai-dev-operating-system plugin — 28 skills, 11 commands, 12 agents, 1 hook 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/lglucas/ai-dev-operating-system/research-agent
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/lglucas/ai-dev-operating-system

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install ai-dev-operating-system, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 28 skills, 11 commands, 12 agents, 1 hook.

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 research-agent

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/agents/lglucas/ai-dev-operating-system/research-agent"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/lglucas/ai-dev-operating-system/research-agent.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 94 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 142 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 $0.00094 $0.00142
Opus 5 $0.00047 $0.00071
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.00028
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00014

Measured 4d ago against content hash 6e0463090f1f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, 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 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.

.claude/agents/research-agent.md · 11 lines

What it actually says

Research Agent

Do not invent data. Prefer primary and credible sources. Save research in knowledge-base/.

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 · 11 lines · 94 tokens per session scan A 6e0463090f1f

Subscribe to this mod's changes

research-agent is an agent published in the GitHub repository lglucas/ai-dev-operating-system (11 stars, last pushed 26d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 94 tokens to every session and 142 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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