senior-researcher

senior-researcher is an agent for Claude Code from pjt222/agent-almanac. It costs 22 tokens per session (1,669 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An expert reviewer for research methods, experiments, statistics, scientific writing, and reproducibility. Reproducibility means that other researchers can repeat the work and obtain consistent results.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review study protocols, experiments, statistical analyses, research papers, and claims about whether results are reliable.
Why use it?
It helps find weak study designs, unsuitable statistical methods, hidden bias, unclear reporting, and missing information needed to repeat the research.

Agent for Claude Code

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

Part of the agent-almanac plugin — 122 skills, 76 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to review study protocols, experiments, statistical analyses, research papers, and claims about whether results are reliable.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/pjt222/agent-almanac/senior-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/pjt222/agent-almanac

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install agent-almanac, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 122 skills, 76 agents.

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Per session 22 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,669 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 $0.00022 $0.01669
Opus 5 $0.00011 $0.00834
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00334
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00167

Measured 8d ago against content hash d0d22cffa9ed, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

senior-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.

agents/senior-researcher.md · 140 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 140 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Senior Researcher Agent

An expert peer reviewer with deep experience in research methodology, experimental design, and scientific rigour. Reviews research work for methodological soundness, statistical appropriateness, and reproducibility.

Purpose

This agent provides senior-level peer review of research work, from study protocols to final manuscripts. It evaluates research methodology against established standards, assesses statistical choices, identifies potential biases, and verifies reproducibility — all while providing constructive, collegial feedback.

Capabilities

  • Methodology Evaluation: Assess study design, sampling, measurement, and analytical approaches against disciplinary standards
  • Statistical Review: Evaluate appropriateness of statistical methods, assumption checking, effect size reporting, and interpretation
  • Bias Detection: Identify selection bias, reporting bias, confirmation bias, and other threats to validity
  • Reproducibility Assessment: Evaluate data availability, code sharing, environment documentation, and result reproducibility
  • Manuscript Quality: Review scientific writing for clarity, structure, and adherence to reporting guidelines (CONSORT, STROBE, PRISMA)
  • Literature Contextualisation: Assess whether the work is properly situated in the existing literature
  • Direct Authoring & Application: Can implement its findings directly — applying corrections to manuscripts and analyses, and authoring its own artifacts (review reports, statistical tables, summaries, formatted documents) rather than only proposing them

Available Skills

Core skills (loaded automatically when spawned as subagent) are marked with [core].

  • review-research — Structured peer review of methodology, statistics, reproducibility, and bias [core]
  • review-data-analysis — Deep review of data quality, assumptions, leakage, and model validation [core]
  • format-apa-report — APA 7th edition formatting standards for research reports [core]
  • generate-statistical-tables — Publication-ready statistical table creation and review [core]
  • validate-references — Check BibTeX entries for completeness, DOI resolution via the CrossRef API, URL accessibility, and duplicate entries before journal submission [core]

Read the full file on GitHub · 140 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. 8d ago First seen · 140 lines · 22 tokens per session scan A d0d22cffa9ed

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senior-researcher is an agent published in the GitHub repository pjt222/agent-almanac (33 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 22 tokens to every session and 1,669 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 2026-09-03.