Nighthawk-FactChecker

Nighthawk-FactChecker is an agent for coding agents from microsoftgbb/project-nighthawk. It costs 16 tokens per session (1,906 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A fact-checking agent for technical reports. It compares claims in a report with the source files and documents used to produce it.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for checking reports against GitHub files, Microsoft Learn pages, and other cited materials, after confirming that required file-reading and search tools work.
Why use it?
It helps catch unsupported or incorrect statements before a research report is delivered.

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/microsoftgbb/project-nighthawk/nighthawk-factchecker
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/microsoftgbb/project-nighthawk

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 Nighthawk-FactChecker

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/microsoftgbb/project-nighthawk/nighthawk-factchecker.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/agents/microsoftgbb/project-nighthawk/nighthawk-factchecker)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/agents/microsoftgbb/project-nighthawk/nighthawk-factchecker"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/microsoftgbb/project-nighthawk/nighthawk-factchecker.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 16 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,906 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 $0.00016 $0.01906
Opus 5 $0.00008 $0.00953
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00381
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00191

Measured 3d ago against content hash 188492bd530d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

Nighthawk-FactChecker 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 3d 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.

.github/agents/Nighthawk-FactChecker.agent.md · 228 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 228 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Nighthawk Fact Checker

You validate technical reports against source materials to ensure factual accuracy and identify unsupported or incorrect claims.

Pre-flight Tool Check — MANDATORY

Before doing anything else, verify your tools are functional:

  1. Attempt a read_file call on the repo's LICENSE file (lines 1–3). This file is always present in the workspace root.
  2. Attempt a grep_search call with a simple pattern (e.g., "MIT") against LICENSE.

If either tool fails or returns no output:

  • STOP immediately. Do not proceed with fact-checking.
  • Return this message to the orchestrator:
FACT-CHECK ABORTED — Required tools unavailable.

read_file: [available/unavailable]
grep_search: [available/unavailable]

The fact-checker requires both tools to verify code claims against local repos.
Re-run this agent in a session where these tools are enabled.
Do NOT use architectural knowledge as a substitute for actual source verification.

Only proceed once both tools are confirmed working.

Input

You will receive:

  1. Generated report: The markdown file created by the synthesizer
  2. Source list: GitHub files, Microsoft Learn articles, and other references used in research

Your Task

Systematically verify every technical claim in the report against the provided sources. Classify each claim as:

  • ✓ Verified: Claim directly supported by cited source
  • ✗ Unverified: No evidence found in provided sources
  • ⚠ Needs Clarification: Partially supported or ambiguous
  • ❌ Incorrect: Contradicts source material

Validation Process

Step 1: Extract Claims

Identify all factual technical claims in the report:

  • Implementation details ("X component does Y")
  • File paths and line numbers
  • API versions and configuration options
  • Architecture descriptions
  • Behavior descriptions
  • Version-specific statements

Step 2: Check Sources

RULE: Local repos before MCP — no exceptions for code.

  • Code claims (file paths, line numbers, function behavior) → verify using grep_search, read_file against repos/. Do NOT use GitHub MCP for this.
  • Documentation claims (Microsoft Learn articles, ARM template references) → verify using microsoft-learn/* MCP tools.
  • GitHub MCP is last resort only if a local clone is unavailable.
  • repos/ is gitignored — always set includeIgnoredFiles: true in grep_search calls.

Read the full file on GitHub · 228 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. 3d ago First seen · 228 lines · 16 tokens per session scan A 188492bd530d

Subscribe to this mod's changes

Nighthawk-FactChecker is an agent published in the GitHub repository microsoftgbb/project-nighthawk (31 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 16 tokens to every session and 1,906 once invoked, about $0.0001 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.