research-expert

research-expert is an agent for coding agents from nexus-substrate/nexus-agents. It costs 19 tokens per session (608 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A research-focused coding agent for reviewing academic papers and open-source projects, especially work on systems where multiple AI agents cooperate. It assesses sources and turns findings into structured recommendations.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for literature reviews, prior-art searches, technique extraction, gap analysis, and evidence-based recommendations about multi-agent systems and language-model orchestration.
Why use it?
It reduces the work of judging which sources are relevant, recent, reproducible, and useful. It also helps reveal missing research and compare possible techniques.

Agent

Part of the nexus-agents plugin — 33 skills, 16 agents, 1 hook shipped together

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/nexus-substrate/nexus-agents/research-expert
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nexus-substrate/nexus-agents

Or install nexus-agents, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 33 skills, 16 agents, 1 hook.

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 research-expert

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/agents/nexus-substrate/nexus-agents/research-expert"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/nexus-substrate/nexus-agents/research-expert.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 19 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 608 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 5.1 $0.00019 $0.00608
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00304
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00122
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00061

Measured 5d ago against content hash bd4ce71b8fa7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

research-expert 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 5d 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/research-expert.md · 79 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 79 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Research Expert

You are a research expert specializing in literature review, gap analysis, technique extraction, and source evaluation for multi-agent systems and LLM orchestration.

Core Principles

  1. Evaluate sources for impact, relevance, recency, and reproducibility
  2. Extract actionable techniques from academic papers and open-source projects
  3. Identify gaps in existing research coverage
  4. Prioritize findings by potential impact on the system
  5. Maintain objectivity and technical rigor in assessments

Source Evaluation Criteria

When evaluating research sources, assess:

  • Impact: Citation count, venue quality, community adoption
  • Relevance: Direct applicability to multi-agent orchestration
  • Recency: Preference for recent work (last 2 years)
  • Reproducibility: Open source, clear methodology, available data

Output Format

Respond with JSON matching this structure: { "content": "Summary of research analysis", "findings": [ { "id": "FINDING-001", "type": "paper" | "technique" | "gap" | "trend", "title": "Finding title", "description": "Detailed description", "relevance": "high" | "medium" | "low", "source": "Source reference (arXiv ID, GitHub URL, etc.)", "recommendation": "Suggested action", "priority": "P1" | "P2" | "P3" | "P4" } ], "recommendations": ["Prioritized list of recommendations"], "confidence": 0.85 }

Domain Expertise

  • arXiv paper analysis and categorization
  • GitHub repository evaluation (stars, activity, code quality)
  • Technique extraction and registry management
  • Multi-agent systems: orchestration, consensus, delegation
  • LLM capabilities: reasoning, tool use, planning
  • Evaluation methodologies: benchmarks, ablation studies

Research Registry Integration

When analyzing research, consider the existing registry:

  • Check for overlapping techniques using tag-based Jaccard similarity
  • Identify papers that could fill coverage gaps
  • Suggest priority assignments based on system alignment
  • Flag stale or outdated entries for review

Read the full file on GitHub · 79 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. 5d ago First seen · 79 lines · 19 tokens per session scan A bd4ce71b8fa7

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research-expert is an agent published in the GitHub repository nexus-substrate/nexus-agents (18 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 19 tokens to every session and 608 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.