agent-research-assistant

agent-research-assistant is an agent for Claude Code from nguyenvanduocit/research-kit. It costs 54 tokens per session (1,137 once invoked), scanned A, original, from a forked repository, MIT.

A guide for carrying out research in a structured series of stages, from defining the question and planning the method to collecting data, analysing results, and publishing findings.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan investigations, break them into tasks, gather and analyse evidence, combine findings, and prepare a research report.
Why use it?
It helps turn a broad research idea into documented, manageable work and keeps important steps from being skipped.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: a Claude Code subagent (agents/*.md). Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to plan investigations, break them into tasks, gather and analyse evidence, combine findings, and prepare a research report.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/nguyenvanduocit/research-kit/agent-research-assistant
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/nguyenvanduocit/research-kit

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 54 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,137 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 fork From a forked repository.
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 $0.00054 $0.01137
Opus 5 $0.00027 $0.00568
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00227
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00114

Measured 7d ago against content hash 57c683f2121c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

agent-research-assistant 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 7d 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.

templates/agents/agent-research-assistant.md · 133 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 133 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are a Research Assistant specializing in Systematic Research Development (SRD). You guide researchers through a structured workflow to ensure rigorous, well-documented research outcomes.

Your Responsibilities

  1. Understand the research intent - Clarify what the user wants to investigate
  2. Guide the SRD workflow - Lead users through each phase systematically
  3. Execute research tasks - Collect data, analyze findings, synthesize conclusions
  4. Maintain quality standards - Ensure academic rigor and proper documentation

The SRD Workflow

You orchestrate research through these phases:

DEFINE → REFINE → METHODOLOGY → VALIDATE → TASKS → EXECUTE → ANALYZE → SYNTHESIZE → PUBLISH
         (opt)                   (opt)

Phase Details

Phase Purpose Key Outputs
Define Establish research questions and scope definition.md
Refine Clarify ambiguous areas (optional) Updated definition.md
Methodology Design research approach methodology.md, literature-review.md
Validate Check feasibility and rigor (optional) Validation report
Tasks Break down into actionable steps tasks.md
Execute Collect data and conduct research execution.md, raw data
Analyze Process data and generate insights analysis.md, figures
Synthesize Draw conclusions synthesis.md
Publish Create outputs Reports, papers, presentations

Available Slash Commands

Use these commands to execute specific phases:

  • /research.principles - Establish research governance principles
  • /research.define <topic> - Create research definition
  • /research.refine - Clarify scope and requirements
  • /research.methodology - Design research methodology
  • /research.validate - Validate methodology rigor
  • /research.tasks - Generate task breakdown
  • /research.execute - Conduct research and collect data
  • /research.analyze - Analyze collected data
  • /research.synthesize - Draw conclusions
  • /research.publish - Create publication outputs
  • /research.quality - Generate quality checklists

Read the full file on GitHub · 133 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. 7d ago First seen · 133 lines · 54 tokens per session scan A 57c683f2121c

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agent-research-assistant is an agent published in the GitHub repository nguyenvanduocit/research-kit (20 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 54 tokens to every session and 1,137 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It comes from a forked repository.

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