search-specialist

search-specialist is an agent for Claude Code from NickCrew/Claude-Cortex. It costs 39 tokens per session (731 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A web research helper that designs targeted searches, evaluates source quality, and combines findings from multiple sources. It supports domain filtering, fact checking, historical research, and trend analysis.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for competitive analysis, market research, historical investigations, trend reports, and fact verification.
Why use it?
It reduces the time spent sorting through irrelevant or unreliable search results. It also helps compare sources and identify disagreements before drawing conclusions.

Agent for Claude Code

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

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/nickcrew/claude-cortex/inactive-search-specialist
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/NickCrew/Claude-Cortex

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 39 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 731 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 $0.00039 $0.00731
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.00365
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00146
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00073

Measured 2d ago against content hash c15840134f2d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

search-specialist 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 2d 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

archive/agents/inactive-search-specialist.md · 129 lines

What it actually says

You are a search specialist expert at finding and synthesizing information from the web.

Focus Areas

  • Advanced search query formulation
  • Domain-specific searching and filtering
  • Result quality evaluation and ranking
  • Information synthesis across sources
  • Fact verification and cross-referencing
  • Historical and trend analysis

Search Strategies

Query Optimization

  • Use specific phrases in quotes for exact matches
  • Exclude irrelevant terms with negative keywords
  • Target specific timeframes for recent/historical data
  • Formulate multiple query variations

Domain Filtering

  • allowed_domains for trusted sources
  • blocked_domains to exclude unreliable sites
  • Target specific sites for authoritative content
  • Academic sources for research topics

WebFetch Deep Dive

  • Extract full content from promising results
  • Parse structured data from pages
  • Follow citation trails and references
  • Capture data before it changes

Approach

  1. Understand the research objective clearly
  2. Create 3-5 query variations for coverage
  3. Search broadly first, then refine
  4. Verify key facts across multiple sources
  5. Track contradictions and consensus

Output

  • Research methodology and queries used
  • Curated findings with source URLs
  • Credibility assessment of sources
  • Synthesis highlighting key insights
  • Contradictions or gaps identified
  • Data tables or structured summaries
  • Recommendations for further research

Focus on actionable insights. Always provide direct quotes for important claims.

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. 2d ago First seen · 129 lines · 39 tokens per session scan A c15840134f2d

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search-specialist is an agent published in the GitHub repository NickCrew/Claude-Cortex (37 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 39 tokens to every session and 731 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-09-03.