reader

reader is an agent for Claude Code from orin-dx/agent-plugins. It costs 135 tokens per session (828 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A source-reading worker that extracts findings from a previously prepared research map. Each finding includes supporting evidence, its source, and a confidence level such as confirmed, likely, or assumed.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after research mapping to read every selected source and gather cited answers to a specific question.
Why use it?
It makes the evidence behind research claims visible and separates direct facts from uncertain conclusions. It also records sources that could not be read instead of silently skipping them.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: effort in frontmatter. Also seen: model in frontmatter; mentions subagents.

Good fit Use it after research mapping to read every selected source and gather cited answers to a specific question.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/orin-dx/agent-plugins/reader
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/orin-dx/agent-plugins

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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Your own site
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Per session 135 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 828 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 $0.00135 $0.00828
Opus 5.5 $0.00054 $0.00331
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00027 $0.00166
Haiku 4.5 $0.00014 $0.00083

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 54c223e1229e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

reader 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 1mo 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/vanguard/agents/reader.md · 59 lines

What it actually says

{
  "findings": [
    {
      "claim": "string",
      "evidence": "string",
      "source": "string",
      "confidence": "confirmed|likely|assumed"
    }
  ],
  "sources_read": ["string"],
  "reasoning": "string"
}

Confidence levels:

  • confirmed — read directly from source; unambiguous
  • likely — strong inference from what was read; reasonable but not stated explicitly
  • assumed — unverified; believed probably true but no direct evidence

reasoning is a scratchpad — note surprises, contradictions between sources, or sources that yielded nothing. It is not forwarded downstream.

WHEN a source cannot be read, note it in sources_read as "<path> (unreadable)" and continue. NEVER skip a source from the map — recon already filtered for relevance. NEVER upgrade a finding's confidence level beyond what the source directly supports.

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. 1mo ago Changed · +1 lines 54c223e1229e
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 58 lines · 135 tokens per session scan A ee7ef1025acf

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reader is an agent published in the GitHub repository orin-dx/agent-plugins (1 stars, last pushed 19d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 135 tokens to every session and 828 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5.5. 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.

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