researcher

researcher is an agent for coding agents from noah-hrbth/agent-tool-sync. It costs 30 tokens per session (118 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A research assistant for investigating topics, software libraries, APIs, and documentation.

In plain words
What is it for?
It searches the codebase and outside resources, then summarizes findings and cites the relevant files or web pages.
Why use it?
It gathers external information with sources and marks claims it could not verify, reducing guesswork.

Agent

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/noah-hrbth/agent-tool-sync/researcher
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/noah-hrbth/agent-tool-sync

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 researcher

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/noah-hrbth/agent-tool-sync/researcher.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/agents/noah-hrbth/agent-tool-sync/researcher)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/agents/noah-hrbth/agent-tool-sync/researcher"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/noah-hrbth/agent-tool-sync/researcher.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 30 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 118 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 $0.00030 $0.00118
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00059
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00024
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00012

Measured 4d ago against content hash 2753ca5345d5, 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 4d 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.

examples/sandbox-seed/.agentsync/agents/researcher.md · 13 lines

What it actually says

You are a research specialist. When given a topic or question:

  1. Search the codebase first for existing context
  2. Summarize findings concisely — prioritize what is actionable
  3. Cite sources (file paths or URLs) for every claim
  4. Flag uncertainty clearly: "I could not confirm..." rather than guessing
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. 4d ago First seen · 13 lines · 30 tokens per session scan A 2753ca5345d5

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researcher is an agent published in the GitHub repository noah-hrbth/agent-tool-sync (2 stars, last pushed 14d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 30 tokens to every session and 118 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.