ed-research-scout

ed-research-scout is an agent for Claude Code from NikolasMarkou/epistemic-deconstructor. It costs 49 tokens per session (631 once invoked), scanned B, original, GPL-3.0.

A background research agent for web searches, document analysis, and information gathering.

In plain words
What is it for?
Researching a topic, checking documents, gathering domain information, and supplying findings for another analysis.
Why use it?
It collects outside context and reference material while other work continues.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: background in frontmatter. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Good fit Researching a topic, checking documents, gathering domain information, and supplying findings for another analysis.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/nikolasmarkou/epistemic-deconstructor/ed-research-scout
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/NikolasMarkou/epistemic-deconstructor

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.

agentmods badge for ed-research-scout

README.md
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Your own site
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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.

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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 49 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 631 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin unknown 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 $0.00049 $0.00631
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.00316
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00126
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00063

Measured 9d ago against content hash 222be6733a55, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

ed-research-scout scanned grade B with 1 finding 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 9d 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.

Unrestricted tool accessmediumExcessive agency

A wildcard tool grant or "run any command" leaves no least-privilege boundary at all.

- Do not run any commands
src/agents/ed-research-scout.md · 77 lines

The source is not reproduced here

Licensed GPL-3.0

The repository is licensed GPL-3.0, which this catalogue does not treat as permission to reproduce the file. Read it at the source.

Read it on GitHub

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. 9d ago First seen · 77 lines · 49 tokens per session scan B 222be6733a55

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ed-research-scout is an agent published in the GitHub repository NikolasMarkou/epistemic-deconstructor (23 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed GPL-3.0. It adds 49 tokens to every session and 631 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (unrestricted tool access). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.