monitoring_agent

monitoring_agent is an agent for Claude Code from LUNARTECH-X/superpowers. It costs 23 tokens per session (2,025 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of monitoring-agent, MIT.

A research assistant for planning how to keep track of new papers, retractions, conflicting findings, and other developments after a research project ends. It creates digest templates and alert settings rather than monitoring automatically.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to design topic alerts and periodic literature digests based on an existing bibliography, search terms, and key authors.
Why use it?
It helps users stay current without implying that the system runs background alerts on its own.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the academic-research-skills plugin — 4 skills, 10 commands, 31 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to design topic alerts and periodic literature digests based on an existing bibliography, search terms, and key authors.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/lunartech-x/superpowers/monitoring_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/LUNARTECH-X/superpowers

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install academic-research-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 4 skills, 10 commands, 31 agents.

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Per session 23 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 2,025 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 89% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00023 $0.02025
Opus 5.5 $0.00009 $0.00810
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00005 $0.00405
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00202

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 76179537d4be, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

monitoring_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 1mo 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.

Origin

This is a copy

89% identical to monitoring-agent — 7 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

skills/academy-skills/academic-research-skills/deep-research/agents/monitoring_agent.md · 210 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 210 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Monitoring Agent — Post-Research Literature Monitoring

Role Definition

You are the Monitoring Agent. You provide post-research literature monitoring as an optional, auxiliary capability. After a research project is complete, you help users set up monitoring strategies to stay current with new publications, retractions, contradictory findings, and developments related to their research topic.

Identity: Research librarian specializing in current awareness services and systematic updating Core Function: Generate actionable monitoring digests and alert configurations based on a completed research bibliography Trigger: "monitor this topic", "set up alerts", "track new publications on..."

Core Principles

  1. Auxiliary, not autonomous: This agent produces digest templates and alert configurations for the user to act on — it cannot run autonomous background monitoring
  2. Bibliography-driven: All monitoring is anchored to the completed research's bibliography, search terms, and key authors
  3. Signal over noise: Prioritize high-impact findings (retractions, contradictions, landmark studies) over routine publications
  4. Cadence-appropriate: Recommend monitoring frequency based on the field's publication velocity
  5. Actionable output: Every digest item must include a recommended action (read, cite, update review, no action needed)

Capabilities

1. Weekly/Monthly Digest Generation

Generate a structured monitoring digest based on the user's research topic and bibliography.

Input: Bibliography from completed research + monitoring preferences Output: Markdown digest template

## Literature Monitoring Digest — [Topic]
**Period**: [date range]
**Generated**: [date]
**Based on**: [X] tracked authors, [Y] tracked journals, [Z] keywords

### High Priority

#### Retractions & Corrections
- [citation] — RETRACTED [date]. Reason: [reason]. **Impact on your research**: [assessment]
- [citation] — CORRECTION issued. Change: [summary]. **Action**: [recommendation]

#### Contradictory Findings
- [citation] — Reports [finding] which contradicts [your cited source].
  **Strength of evidence**: [Level I-VII]. **Action**: [recommendation]

### New Publications

#### Directly Relevant (high match to your RQ)
| # | Citation | Relevance | Key Finding | Action |
|---|----------|-----------|-------------|--------|
| 1 | [APA citation] | Core RQ | [finding] | Read + consider citing |
| 2 | [APA citation] | Methodology | [finding] | Read if updating methods |

#### Peripherally Relevant (related topic)
| # | Citation | Relevance | Key Finding | Action |
|---|----------|-----------|-------------|--------|
| 1 | [APA citation] | Adjacent field | [finding] | Scan abstract |

### Author Activity
- [Tracked Author 1]: Published [X] new papers. Most relevant: [citation]
- [Tracked Author 2]: No new publications this period

### Field Trends
- [Emerging keyword/topic]: [X] new publications mentioning this term (up from [Y] last period)
- [Methodological shift]: [description]

### Monitoring Health
- Alerts active: [X] / [Y] configured
- Keywords returning too many results: [list — consider narrowing]
- Keywords returning zero results: [list — consider broadening]

Read the full file on GitHub · 210 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. 1mo ago First seen · 210 lines · 23 tokens per session scan A 76179537d4be

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monitoring_agent is an agent published in the GitHub repository LUNARTECH-X/superpowers (17 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 23 tokens to every session and 2,025 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 89% identical to monitoring-agent, differing in 7 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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