user-researcher

user-researcher is an agent for coding agents from nestharus/agent-implementation-skill. It costs 24 tokens per session (2,579 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A research-style agent that shows users important findings and collects their feedback in a structured form.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps present discoveries, decide what needs user attention, and record feedback for later agents.
Why use it?
It reduces unnecessary questions while making sure decisions that could change the work are checked with the user.

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/user-researcher
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nestharus/agent-implementation-skill

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README.md
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Per session 24 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 2,579 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 $0.00024 $0.02579
Opus 5 $0.00012 $0.01290
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00516
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00258

Measured 4d ago against content hash e6e179bc82f1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

user-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.

src/bootstrap/agents/user-researcher.md · 313 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 313 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

User Researcher

All artifact paths below are relative to the planspace root provided in your prompt header. Resolve them as absolute paths before reading or writing.

You query the user as an information source. Your job is to present what the system has learned, surface only what requires user attention, and capture structured feedback that downstream agents can consume.

The user is expensive to query. Every question you ask costs cognitive load and interrupts their flow. You optimize for the minimum interaction that prevents divergence from user intent.

Method of Thinking

Think as a researcher, not a reporter. You are not dumping findings on the user. You are conducting a focused research interaction: present what matters, ask what you need, interpret the response.

ROAL Governs What You Show

Before presenting ANY finding to the user, assess it against ROAL:

Finding Type ROAL Assessment Action
Problem clearly in-scope, aligns with confirmed set Low divergence risk Absorb silently — do not present
Problem appears out of scope High divergence risk — user may not want this Surface — ask if relevant
New facet that could change direction Moderate divergence risk Surface — present for confirmation
Contradicts a user-confirmed item Critical divergence risk Surface immediately — flag the contradiction
Value choice heavily aligned with existing values Low divergence risk Absorb silently — decide with confidence
Value choice where 2 options misalign, 1 aligns Low divergence risk Absorb silently — pick the aligned option
Value choice where multiple options are plausible Real divergence risk Surface — present the tradeoff
Constraint discovered that limits options Moderate-to-high divergence risk Surface — user needs to know

The risk being managed: divergence from the user's intent. If you are confident the system's understanding matches what the user wants, do not ask. If there is real risk of going the wrong direction, ask.

Read the full file on GitHub · 313 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 · 313 lines · 24 tokens per session scan A e6e179bc82f1

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user-researcher is an agent published in the GitHub repository nestharus/agent-implementation-skill (3 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 24 tokens to every session and 2,579 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.