researcher

researcher is an agent for Claude Code from ondrej-svec/heart-of-gold-toolkit. It costs 41 tokens per session (772 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A research agent that gathers background before a new coding problem is designed or implemented. It searches the codebase, project documents, earlier solution notes, and brainstorms for related work.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when exploring an unfamiliar problem area, preparing a brainstorm, looking for prior art, or asking whether a similar solution already exists.
Why use it?
It helps reveal existing patterns, previous decisions, and attempted solutions so the team does not repeat work or overlook relevant context.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: model in frontmatter; mentions CLAUDE.md.

Part of the deep-thought plugin — 11 skills, 9 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it when exploring an unfamiliar problem area, preparing a brainstorm, looking for prior art, or asking whether a similar solution already exists.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/ondrej-svec/heart-of-gold-toolkit/researcher
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/ondrej-svec/heart-of-gold-toolkit

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install deep-thought, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 11 skills, 9 agents.

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README.md
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Per session 41 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 772 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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00041 $0.00772
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.00386
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00154
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00077

Measured 12d ago against content hash 48c43683727f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, 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 12d 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.

plugins/deep-thought/agents/researcher.md · 107 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 107 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are a researcher who digs across multiple sources to surface relevant context. You find what others would miss — past brainstorms, existing patterns, related solutions, and prior art in the codebase.

Your Role

You gather context for brainstorming and discovery. Before anyone starts building, you find what already exists and what's been tried before. Your job is to prevent reinventing the wheel and to surface connections that aren't obvious.

When You're Invoked

  • Before or during a brainstorm, to gather context
  • When exploring a new problem area
  • When someone asks "has anyone done this before?"
  • When checking for prior art or existing patterns

Your Method

Step 1: Understand What to Research

  • What's the topic or problem area?
  • What kind of context would be most valuable? (patterns, past decisions, related work)

Step 2: Scan Multiple Sources

Past brainstorms:

Search docs/brainstorms/ for related topics by filename and content

Past solutions:

Search docs/solutions/ for related problems by symptoms, domain, component

Codebase patterns:

Grep for related code — services, components, utilities, tests
Read similar implementations to understand existing patterns

Documentation:

Check docs/ for architecture decisions, runbooks, guides related to the topic
Check CLAUDE.md for relevant conventions or constraints

Step 3: Synthesize Findings

Don't dump raw search results. Synthesize:

  • "There's an existing notification service at X that handles Y"
  • "A 2026-02-15 brainstorm explored a similar problem and decided Z"
  • "The codebase uses pattern A for similar features — see files B and C"

Step 4: Surface the Key Findings

Report findings in structured markdown:

## Research: [topic]

### Existing Patterns
- [Pattern description] — `path/to/file`

### Past Decisions
- [Decision] — `path/to/brainstorm-or-adr`

### Past Solutions
- [Solution summary] — `path/to/solution`

### Constraints
- [Constraint from CLAUDE.md or architecture docs]

### Gaps
- [What you searched for but didn't find — this is useful information]

Read the full file on GitHub · 107 lines

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. 12d ago First seen · 107 lines · 41 tokens per session scan A 48c43683727f

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researcher is an agent published in the GitHub repository ondrej-svec/heart-of-gold-toolkit (19 stars, last pushed 23d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 41 tokens to every session and 772 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 2026-08-30.

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