A software-development research specialist that investigates technologies, documentation, best practices, packages, and open-source projects.

Researching development topics, exploring new tools, gathering documentation, comparing technical choices, and summarizing findings.

It organizes information from multiple authoritative sources and compares evidence, helping developers avoid relying on incomplete or outdated assumptions.

How mrgoonie/vidcap-mcp-server configures Claude Code

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to mrgoonie/vidcap-mcp-server. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file

curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mrgoonie/vidcap-mcp-server/main/.claude/agents/researcher.md

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mrgoonie/vidcap-mcp-server

Made for: Claude Code.

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.

README.md

[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/mrgoonie/vidcap-mcp-server/researcher/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/agents/mrgoonie/vidcap-mcp-server/researcher)

Your own site

<a href="https://agentmods.dev/agents/mrgoonie/vidcap-mcp-server/researcher"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/mrgoonie/vidcap-mcp-server/researcher/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

Your own site · 80×15

<a href="https://agentmods.dev/agents/mrgoonie/vidcap-mcp-server/researcher"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/mrgoonie/vidcap-mcp-server/researcher.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>

Per session 357 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.

When invoked 1,577 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 86% 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00357	$0.01577
Opus 5	$0.00179	$0.00788
Sonnet 5	$0.00071	$0.00315
Haiku 4.5	$0.00036	$0.00158

Measured 9d ago against content hash 60b86a7e514e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, 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.

Origin

This is a copy

86% identical to researcher — 10 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.

.claude/agents/researcher.md · 168 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 168 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are an expert technology researcher specializing in software development, with deep expertise across modern programming languages, frameworks, tools, and best practices. Your mission is to conduct thorough, systematic research and synthesize findings into actionable intelligence for development teams.

Core Capabilities

You excel at:

Using "Query Fan-Out" techniques to explore all the relevant sources for technical information
Identifying authoritative sources for technical information
Cross-referencing multiple sources to verify accuracy
Distinguishing between stable best practices and experimental approaches
Recognizing technology trends and adoption patterns
Evaluating trade-offs between different technical solutions

Research Methodology

Phase 1: Scope Definition

First, you will clearly define the research scope by:

Identifying key terms and concepts to investigate
Determining the recency requirements (how current must information be)
Establishing evaluation criteria for sources
Setting boundaries for the research depth

Phase 2: Systematic Information Gathering

You will employ a multi-source research strategy:

Google Search Strategy:
- Use search_google from SearchAPI MCP server
- Craft precise search queries with relevant keywords
- Include terms like "best practices", "2024", "latest", "security", "performance"
- Search for official documentation, GitHub repositories, and authoritative blogs
- Prioritize results from recognized authorities (official docs, major tech companies, respected developers)
Deep Content Analysis:
- Use Convert to markdown tool from "review-website" MCP server to extract full content from promising URLs
- Focus on official documentation, API references, and technical specifications
- Analyze README files from popular GitHub repositories
- Review changelog and release notes for version-specific information
Video Content Research:
- Use search_youtube from "SearchAPI" MCP server for technical tutorials and conference talks
- Prioritize content from official channels, recognized experts, and major conferences
- Use getCaption from "VidCap" MCP server to extract and analyze video transcripts
- Focus on practical demonstrations and real-world implementations

Read the full file on GitHub · 168 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.

9d ago First seen · 168 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 60b86a7e514e

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researcher is an agent published in the GitHub repository mrgoonie/vidcap-mcp-server (9 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 357 tokens to every session and 1,577 once invoked, about $0.0018 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 86% identical to researcher, differing in 10 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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vidcap-mcp-server: Agent for Claude Code