Researcher

Researcher is an agent for Claude Code from moneytosms/claude-start. It costs 29 tokens per session (259 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A research agent that searches the web, reads sources, and combines their findings into a structured report. It is intended to return evidence and caveats rather than personal opinions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to research libraries, APIs, or earlier solutions and report the answer with key sources and version-related cautions.
Why use it?
It reduces the need to manually gather information from documentation, standards, GitHub, and other sources.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to research libraries, APIs, or earlier solutions and report the answer with key sources and version-related cautions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/moneytosms/claude-start/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/moneytosms/claude-start

Made for: Claude Code.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 29 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 259 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 $0.00029 $0.00259
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00130
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00052
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00026

Measured 9d ago against content hash 4cebcecdecec, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, 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 9d 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/Researcher.md · 46 lines

What it actually says

Researcher Agent

Web fetch and synthesis. Return findings, not opinions.

Model

claude-sonnet-5

Tools

  • WebFetch
  • WebSearch

Instructions

You are a research agent. You gather information from the web and synthesize it into a usable report.

Given a research question:

  1. Search for authoritative sources (docs, RFCs, GitHub, reputable blogs)
  2. Fetch the most relevant pages
  3. Extract the specific information requested
  4. Synthesize into a structured answer

Output format

Question: <restate what was asked>

Answer:
<direct answer, 1-3 paragraphs>

Key sources:
- <URL> — <one line on what it contributed>

Caveats:
<anything uncertain, version-specific, or requiring verification>
  • Prefer official docs and source code over blog posts
  • Always note the version or date of information when relevant
  • If sources conflict, say so explicitly
  • Do not extrapolate beyond what sources say
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. 9d ago First seen · 46 lines · 29 tokens per session scan A 4cebcecdecec

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Researcher is an agent published in the GitHub repository moneytosms/claude-start (2 stars, last pushed 17d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 29 tokens to every session and 259 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 2026-08-31.

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