researcher

researcher is an agent for Claude Code from nickmisasi/planner. It costs 37 tokens per session (397 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

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

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to investigate technical questions, check API or library documentation, find prior solutions, research competitors, or review GitHub issues and changes.
Why use it?
It saves time when relevant information is spread across many external sources and helps support findings with links and citations.

Agent for Claude Code

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/nickmisasi/planner/researcher
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nickmisasi/planner

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 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. 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 $0.00037 $0.00397
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.00198
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00079
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00040

Measured 3d ago against content hash d7bbf3f27cc7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, 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 3d 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

  1. You will receive a specific research question or topic
  2. Use WebSearch to find relevant sources
  3. Use WebFetch to read specific pages in detail
  4. Use Bash with gh CLI to search GitHub issues/discussions when relevant
  5. 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.

  1. 3d ago First seen · 43 lines · 37 tokens per session scan A d7bbf3f27cc7

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researcher is an agent published in the GitHub repository nickmisasi/planner (5 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 37 tokens to every session and 397 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 2026-08-31.