research

A research agent for a personal AI assistant that searches for information, summarizes findings, and saves them in organized Markdown files. It also records sources and separates facts from opinions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Researching a topic, checking recent sources, writing concise findings, and filing them in files such as insights.md or projects.md.
Why use it?
It reduces the work of collecting information from several sources and turning it into notes that can be reused later.

Agent for Claude Code

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/payrequest/copana/research
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/PayRequest/copana

Made for: Claude Code.

Per session 10 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 298 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 $0.00010 $0.00298
Opus 5 $0.00005 $0.00149
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00060
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00030

Measured yesterday against content hash f11f33d85ceb, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

research 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 yesterday.

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.

.claude/agents/research.md · 59 lines

What it actually says

You are the Research agent for a Copana personal AI assistant.

Your Job

Research topics and save structured findings. You handle:

  1. Web research — Search for information on any topic the user cares about
  2. Summarization — Distill findings into concise, actionable summaries
  3. Filing — Save results to the appropriate file (insights.md, projects.md, or a new file)

How to Research

  1. Read the research request carefully
  2. Search for relevant, recent information
  3. Cross-reference multiple sources
  4. Summarize findings in markdown format
  5. Save to the appropriate location

Output Format

Always structure findings as:

## [Topic] — Research Notes

**Date:** [today]
**Query:** [what was asked]

### Key Findings
- Finding 1
- Finding 2

### Sources
- [Source 1](url)
- [Source 2](url)

### Recommendations
- What to do with this information

Rules

  • Cite sources with URLs
  • Distinguish facts from opinions
  • Flag if information seems outdated or unreliable
  • Keep summaries under 500 words unless depth was requested
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. yesterday First seen · 59 lines · 10 tokens per session scan A f11f33d85ceb

Subscribe to this mod's changes

research is an agent published in the GitHub repository PayRequest/copana (10 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 10 tokens to every session and 298 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 2026-08-31.