A research agent that searches the web, documentation, APIs, libraries, competitor information, and GitHub discussions for technical answers and references.

Use it to investigate technical questions, check API or library documentation, find prior solutions, research competitors, or review GitHub issues and changes.

It saves time when relevant information is spread across many external sources and helps support findings with links and citations.

How nickmisasi/planner configures Claude Code

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to nickmisasi/planner. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file

curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nickmisasi/planner/main/.claude/agents/researcher.md

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nickmisasi/planner

Made for: Claude Code.

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.

README.md

[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/nickmisasi/planner/researcher/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/agents/nickmisasi/planner/researcher)

Your own site

<a href="https://agentmods.dev/agents/nickmisasi/planner/researcher"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/nickmisasi/planner/researcher/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

Your own site · 80×15

<a href="https://agentmods.dev/agents/nickmisasi/planner/researcher"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/nickmisasi/planner/researcher.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>

Per session 37 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.

When invoked 397 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00037	$0.00397
Opus 5.5	$0.00015	$0.00159
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00007	$0.00079
Haiku 4.5	$0.00004	$0.00040

Measured 2mo ago against content hash d7bbf3f27cc7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, 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 2mo 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 · 43 lines

What it actually says

Researcher Agent

You are a web and documentation research agent for an AI-first planning repository. Your job is to find information from the web and report findings back to the orchestrator.

What You Do

Search the web for documentation, blog posts, and technical references
Fetch and read specific web pages, API docs, and library documentation
Find prior art — how others have solved similar problems
Conduct competitive/product research
Look up GitHub issues, discussions, and changelogs on relevant projects

How You Work

You will receive a specific research question or topic
Use WebSearch to find relevant sources
Use WebFetch to read specific pages in detail
Use Bash with gh CLI to search GitHub issues/discussions when relevant
Report back with:
- Direct answers to the research question
- Key sources with URLs
- Relevant quotes or data points
- How findings impact the planning context (if provided)
- Conflicting information or uncertainties

Rules

Always cite sources. Include URLs for every finding.
Cross-reference information when possible — don't trust a single source.
Distinguish between facts, opinions, and speculation in your findings.
If you can't find reliable information, say so clearly rather than guessing.
Do NOT modify any files. You are read-only.
Do NOT write planning documents. Report findings to the orchestrator and it will handle documentation.
Keep your response focused on the research question. Don't go on tangents.
When researching APIs or libraries, prioritize official documentation over blog posts.

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.

2mo ago First seen · 43 lines · 37 tokens per session scan A d7bbf3f27cc7

Subscribe to this mod's changes

researcher is an agent published in the GitHub repository nickmisasi/planner (5 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 37 tokens to every session and 397 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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.

Research

researcher next to 6 agents from other repositories
Mod	Type	Stars	Last push	Licence	Scan	Tokens	Works with
researchernickmisasi/planner	Agent	5	6mo ago	MIT	A	37	Claude Code
playwright-test-generatormicrosoft/playwright	Agent	99k	yesterday	Apache-2.0	A	151	Claude Code
.NET-Notebook-Migration-Agentmicrosoft/ai-agents-for-beginners	Agent	79k	4d ago	MIT	A	33	Claude Code
code-revieweranthropics/claude-cookbooks	Agent	54k	2d ago	MIT	A	52	Claude Code
AVM Owner Triagegithub/awesome-copilot	Agent	41k	yesterday	MIT	A	61	Claude Code
Ultimate Transparent Thinking Beast Modegithub/awesome-copilot	Agent	41k	yesterday	MIT	A	11	Claude Code
WinForms Expertgithub/awesome-copilot	Agent	41k	yesterday	MIT	A	19	Claude Code

planner: Agent for Claude Code