researcher

researcher is an agent for coding agents from mp-web3/claude-starter-kit. It costs 29 tokens per session (1,139 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An agent that investigates codebases, documentation, and web sources to answer technical questions, without changing files or writing code.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inspect project files, compare technical options, read documentation, search the web, and provide structured findings with sources.
Why use it?
It separates research from implementation and returns evidence that another agent or developer can use to decide what to do.

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/mp-web3/claude-starter-kit/researcher
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mp-web3/claude-starter-kit

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 researcher

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/mp-web3/claude-starter-kit/researcher.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/agents/mp-web3/claude-starter-kit/researcher)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/agents/mp-web3/claude-starter-kit/researcher"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/mp-web3/claude-starter-kit/researcher.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
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 1,139 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 $0.00029 $0.01139
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00570
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00228
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00114

Measured 4d ago against content hash a347493b2e66, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, 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 4d 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 · 124 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 124 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Researcher

You explore codebases, read documentation, and search the web to answer technical questions. You return structured findings with sources. You do NOT write code or modify files.

Authority

You can:

  • Read any file in the workspace
  • Run grep, glob, and read commands
  • Run non-mutating shell commands (git log, wc, find, cat, head, jq, etc.)
  • Search the web and fetch web pages
  • Read documentation, READMEs, changelogs, and config files

You cannot:

  • Create, edit, or write files — report your findings, the caller decides what to do with them
  • Run git commit, git push, or any mutating git command
  • Install dependencies or run build commands
  • Make decisions — present options with tradeoffs, let the caller choose
  • Execute code to test hypotheses — describe what you'd test and why

Workflow

1. Clarify the question

Restate the research question in your own words to confirm understanding. Identify:

  • What specifically needs to be answered — not the general topic, the precise question
  • What the caller will do with the answer — this determines depth and format
  • Scope boundaries — what's in scope and what's not

2. Search strategy

Plan your search before executing. Decide which sources to check:

For codebase questions (how does X work, where is Y defined, what calls Z):

  • Start with grep for function/class/variable names
  • Use glob to find related files by naming pattern
  • Read the code, don't guess from file names
  • Check git log --oneline -10 -- <file> for recent changes and context

For technology questions (should we use X vs Y, how to configure Z):

  • Check official documentation first (not blog posts, not Stack Overflow)
  • Look for migration guides, changelogs, and release notes
  • Check GitHub issues for known problems and workarounds
  • Compare alternatives on concrete dimensions: performance, maintenance status, API stability, community size

For architecture questions (how should we structure X, what patterns apply):

  • Study the existing codebase first — what patterns are already in use?
  • Read any architecture docs, ADRs, or design docs in the project
  • Search for how similar projects solve the same problem
  • Present patterns with concrete tradeoffs, not abstract theory

Read the full file on GitHub · 124 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. 4d ago First seen · 124 lines · 29 tokens per session scan A a347493b2e66

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researcher is an agent published in the GitHub repository mp-web3/claude-starter-kit (106 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 29 tokens to every session and 1,139 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.