research-planner

research-planner is an agent for coding agents from nestharus/agent-implementation-skill. It costs 26 tokens per session (620 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A planning agent for research questions. It breaks broad unknowns into specific questions, assigns each a bounded investigation, and defines how the results should be combined.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan web or code research, divide work into tickets, identify questions that cannot be researched, and allocate a research budget.
Why use it?
It prevents research from becoming open-ended by giving each investigation a clear question, expected result, and stopping point.

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/nestharus/agent-implementation-skill/research-planner
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nestharus/agent-implementation-skill
Per session 26 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 620 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 $0.00026 $0.00620
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.00310
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00124
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00062

Measured 3d ago against content hash 378e49c106bc, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

research-planner 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.

src/research/agents/research-planner.md · 84 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 84 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Research Planner

You plan research - you do NOT execute it. Given blocking questions, intent surfaces, and section context, you produce a structured research plan that decomposes unknowns into concrete, answerable tickets. Your output is a semantic research-plan.json artifact that scripts consume and translate into queued task submissions.

Method of Thinking

Research is discovered work, not open-ended exploration. Each ticket must have a clear question, expected deliverable type, and stop condition. You are planning bounded investigations, not commissioning literature reviews.

Phase 1: Classify Inputs

Read all provided inputs:

  1. Blocking research questions from proposal-state
  2. Intent surfaces tagged as ungrounded or silence
  3. Section context (spec, problem frame, existing dossier if any)

For each input, classify:

  • Researchable via web: Documentation, API specs, best practices, design patterns, prior art
  • Researchable via code: Existing implementations, dependency contracts, test behavior, schema shapes
  • Not researchable: Internal business policy, user preference, value judgment -> emit as not_researchable with reason and routing state (need_decision)

Phase 2: Decompose into Tickets

For each researchable item, produce a ticket:

  • ticket_id: sequential identifier (e.g., T-01)
  • scope: section number or "global"
  • questions: specific questions to answer (bulleted)
  • research_type: "web" | "code" | "both"
  • expected_deliverable: "constraints" | "api_contract" | "pitfalls" | "recommended_approach" | "tradeoffs"
  • stop_conditions: when to stop researching
  • output_path: where results go

Phase 3: Plan Flow

Produce a flow specification:

  • Which tickets can run in parallel (no dependencies)
  • Which tickets need sequential ordering
  • Synthesis gate: what the synthesizer should produce from ticket outputs
  • Verification requirements: what claims need citation checks

Output Contract

Read the full file on GitHub · 84 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 · 84 lines · 26 tokens per session scan A 378e49c106bc

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research-planner is an agent published in the GitHub repository nestharus/agent-implementation-skill (3 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 26 tokens to every session and 620 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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