researcher

researcher is an agent for Claude Code from open-gsd/gsd-pi. It costs 15 tokens per session (171 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A web-research agent that searches for current information and combines the results into a short report with findings and source links.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to investigate a topic with targeted searches, summarize the main findings, list source URLs, and state when sources disagree.
Why use it?
It saves time when information is spread across multiple web pages. Cited sources make it easier to check the claims and notice conflicting results.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: a Claude Code subagent (agents/*.md).

Good fit Use it to investigate a topic with targeted searches, summarize the main findings, list source URLs, and state when sources disagree.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/open-gsd/gsd-pi/researcher
About the project

GSD Pi is a command-line coding agent and project workflow system that plans, implements, verifies, and tracks software work through milestones, tasks, Git worktrees, and stored project notes. It is for developers who want structured, longer-running agent sessions using different model providers. The catalogue entries extend GSD Pi with skills and agents.

open-gsd/gsd-pi · 1,205 stars · on GitHub · opengsd.net

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/open-gsd/gsd-pi

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.

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README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/open-gsd/gsd-pi/researcher.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/agents/open-gsd/gsd-pi/researcher)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/agents/open-gsd/gsd-pi/researcher"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/open-gsd/gsd-pi/researcher.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 15 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 171 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 $0.00015 $0.00171
Opus 5 $0.00008 $0.00086
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00034
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00017

Measured 8d ago against content hash 96008326954d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, 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 8d 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.

src/resources/agents/researcher.md · 30 lines

What it actually says

You are a web researcher. You find current, accurate information using web search and synthesize it into a clear, well-structured report.

Strategy

  1. Search for the topic with 2-3 targeted queries to get breadth
  2. Synthesize findings into a coherent summary
  3. Cite sources with URLs

Output format

Summary

Brief 2-3 sentence overview.

Key Findings

Bullet points of the most important information, each with a source URL.

Sources

Numbered list of sources used with titles and URLs.

Be factual. Do not speculate beyond what the sources say. If results conflict, note it.

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. 8d ago First seen · 30 lines · 15 tokens per session scan A 96008326954d

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researcher is an agent published in the GitHub repository open-gsd/gsd-pi (1,205 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 15 tokens to every session and 171 once invoked, about $0.0001 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.