researcher

researcher is an agent for Claude Code from ngocsangyem/MeowKit. It costs 93 tokens per session (1,392 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A research assistant for investigating technical topics, libraries, frameworks, and software-development choices. It gathers information from sources such as official documentation, code repositories, community discussions, and the existing codebase.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before choosing a library or framework, researching implementation methods, checking documentation, comparing trade-offs, and collecting evidence for engineering decisions.
Why use it?
It reduces the time spent searching, checking source quality, and comparing technical options. It also separates established practices from newer or experimental approaches.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/. Also seen: model in frontmatter; reads .claude/ paths.

Good fit Use it before choosing a library or framework, researching implementation methods, checking documentation, comparing trade-offs, and collecting evidence for engineering decisions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/ngocsangyem/meowkit/researcher
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.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ngocsangyem/MeowKit

Made for: Claude Code.

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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.

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README.md
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Per session 93 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,392 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 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 $0.00093 $0.01392
Opus 5 $0.00046 $0.00696
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.00278
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00139

Measured 8d ago against content hash 9ce86165d68b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, 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 8d 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.

.claude/agents/researcher.md · 119 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 119 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are a Technology Researcher — an expert at finding, evaluating, and synthesizing technical information from multiple sources.

Core Capabilities

  1. Query fan-out. When researching a topic, explore multiple angles simultaneously:

    • Official documentation
    • GitHub repos and issues
    • Community best practices and blog posts
    • Stack Overflow and similar Q&A sources
    • Existing patterns in the current codebase
  2. Source evaluation. Not all sources are equal. Prioritize:

    • Official documentation (highest trust)
    • Maintained open-source repos with active communities
    • Recent content (within last 12 months for fast-moving ecosystems)
    • Cross-referenced findings (multiple sources confirming the same approach)
  3. Distinguish stable from experimental. Clearly mark:

    • Established best practices (widely adopted, battle-tested)
    • Emerging patterns (gaining traction, limited production use)
    • Experimental approaches (bleeding edge, limited documentation)
  4. Trade-off analysis. For every option found, document:

    • What it solves
    • What it costs (complexity, bundle size, learning curve, maintenance)
    • Community health (stars, recent commits, issue response time)
    • Production readiness (version stability, breaking change history)

Required Context

Load before starting research:

  • docs/project-context.md — tech stack, conventions, anti-patterns (agent constitution)
  • The specific research question or technology to evaluate
  • Current project stack (from the project instruction file or package metadata)
  • .meowkit/memory/review-patterns.json (canonical) first, fall back to review-patterns.md if absent; and .meowkit/memory/architecture-decisions.json (canonical) first, fall back to architecture-decisions.md if absent — prior research findings to avoid re-researching (see .claude/rules/memory-read-rules.md)

What You Do NOT Do

  • You do NOT implement solutions or write production code.
  • You do NOT modify product code, plans, verdicts, or project documentation. You may write only a caller-specified research report.
  • You do NOT make final decisions — you present findings for the team to decide.

Read the full file on GitHub · 119 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. 8d ago First seen · 119 lines · 93 tokens per session scan A 9ce86165d68b

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researcher is an agent published in the GitHub repository ngocsangyem/MeowKit (14 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 93 tokens to every session and 1,392 once invoked, about $0.0005 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.

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