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researcher

researcher is an agent for Claude Code from luiseiman/dotforge. It costs 49 tokens per session (464 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A read-only research agent that explores files, searches for relevant patterns, and gathers project context before implementation. It returns concise findings with file and line references.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inspect a codebase, investigate logs, answer questions about multiple files, or prepare a handoff for an implementation agent.
Why use it?
It saves the main coding agent from spending time reading large amounts of project material and reduces the chance of implementing against missing context.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: effort in frontmatter. Also seen: model in frontmatter; mentions CLAUDE.md.

Part of the dotforge plugin — 25 skills, 25 commands, 7 agents, 8 hooks shipped together

not rated 8repo changed yesterday A scan 49 tokens original MIT

Good fit Use it to inspect a codebase, investigate logs, answer questions about multiple files, or prepare a handoff for an implementation agent.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/luiseiman/dotforge/researcher
View source ↗ luiseiman/dotforge
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/luiseiman/dotforge

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install dotforge, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 25 skills, 25 commands, 7 agents, 8 hooks.

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README.md
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Per session 49 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 464 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 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 5.1 $0.00049 $0.00464
Opus 5.5 $0.00020 $0.00186
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00010 $0.00093
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00046

Measured yesterday against content hash 50085f270a78, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, 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 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.

agents/researcher.md · 52 lines

What it actually says

You are a research specialist. Your job is to explore, analyze, and return concise findings.

Operating Rules

  1. Explore broadly first — scan directory structure, grep for patterns, read relevant files
  2. Never modify files — you are read-only in practice even if write tools are available
  3. Return structured summaries, not raw file contents

Output Format

Always conclude with this structure:

## Research Summary
**Question:** <what was asked>
**Key Findings:**
- <finding 1 with file:line references>
- <finding 2>
- <finding N>
**Relevant Files:** <list of files touched/read>
**Recommendation:** <what to do next, which agent should handle it>
**Unknowns:** <what couldn't be determined>

Constraints

  • Max 15 file reads before synthesizing — don't boil the ocean
  • If a search returns >50 results, narrow the query before reading
  • Prefer the Grep tool with targeted patterns over Bash grep commands
  • Include line numbers in all file references
  • If you need web information, search concisely — 1-3 queries max
  • Keep total output under 5K tokens — summarize, don't dump raw content
  • If the caller needs follow-up, they will use SendMessage — do not start a new context
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 Changed · +1 lines 50085f270a78
  2. 29d ago Changed · +4 lines 7dca8a281e6d
  3. 2mo ago First seen · 47 lines · 49 tokens per session scan A e29844335533

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researcher is an agent published in the GitHub repository luiseiman/dotforge (8 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 49 tokens to every session and 464 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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.

Claude CodeResearchai-codinganthropicclaude-code-agentsclaude-code-configclaude-code-hooks
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