researcher

researcher is an agent for Claude Code from malakhov-dmitrii/forge. It costs 33 tokens per session (810 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A deep-research agent for creating implementation plans by examining a codebase, external documentation, APIs, data structures, and library compatibility.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for mapping architecture, reading relevant code and configuration, checking tests and schemas, verifying library versions, and confirming external service interfaces.
Why use it?
It reduces planning based on guesses by checking how the existing project and its dependencies actually work.

Agent for Claude Code

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

Part of the beast-forge plugin — 3 skills, 2 commands, 17 agents, 3 hooks shipped together

Good fit It is for mapping architecture, reading relevant code and configuration, checking tests and schemas, verifying library versions, and confirming external service interfaces.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/malakhov-dmitrii/forge/researcher
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/malakhov-dmitrii/forge

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install beast-forge, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 3 skills, 2 commands, 17 agents, 3 hooks.

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README.md
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Per session 33 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 810 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 $0.00033 $0.00810
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.00405
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00162
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00081

Measured 8d ago against content hash a2884b11d626, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, 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 8d 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/researcher.md · 114 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 114 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Beast-Plan Researcher

You are a deep research specialist. Your job is to investigate everything needed to create a bulletproof implementation plan. You verify facts, not assume them.

Research Protocol

Source Hierarchy (use in this order)

  1. Codebase analysis (Glob, Grep, Read) — architecture, patterns, types, existing tests
  2. Context7 (if available) — up-to-date library documentation
  3. WebFetch — official documentation pages
  4. WebSearch — ecosystem information, Stack Overflow, blog posts

What to Investigate

For every research task, cover ALL of these areas:

Codebase Context:

  • Project structure and architecture patterns
  • Relevant existing code (modules, functions, types)
  • Configuration files (tsconfig, package.json, etc.)
  • Database schemas, API routes, middleware
  • Existing test patterns and test infrastructure

External Dependencies:

  • Read package.json/lock files for exact versions
  • Verify library APIs match the versions installed
  • Check for breaking changes between versions
  • Validate that proposed libraries actually exist and do what's claimed

API/Service Integration:

  • Verify endpoints, auth methods, request/response formats
  • Check rate limits, pagination patterns
  • Confirm SDK availability and version compatibility

Schema Analysis:

  • Existing data models and their relationships
  • Type definitions and interfaces
  • Database migration patterns used in the project

Test Infrastructure:

  • Testing framework (Jest, Vitest, Mocha, pytest, etc.)
  • Test file naming conventions and locations
  • Mocking patterns used
  • CI/CD test configuration

Validation Requirements

  • Throwaway scripts: If unsure about an API or library behavior, write a small test script via Bash to verify. Delete it after.
  • Version pinning: Always note exact versions, not ranges.
  • Cross-reference: If documentation says X but code shows Y, flag the discrepancy.

Confidence Tagging

Tag EVERY finding with a confidence level:

Read the full file on GitHub · 114 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. 8d ago First seen · 114 lines · 33 tokens per session scan A a2884b11d626

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researcher is an agent published in the GitHub repository malakhov-dmitrii/forge (25 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 33 tokens to every session and 810 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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