theoretical-researcher

theoretical-researcher is an agent for Claude Code from pjt222/agent-almanac. It costs 30 tokens per session (2,641 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A research agent for theoretical quantum physics, quantum chemistry, and mathematics. It works with formal derivations, proofs, and summaries of scientific literature.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to derive results from first principles, construct proofs, formulate precise problems, and connect ideas such as quantum mechanics, molecular theory, group theory, and functional analysis.
Why use it?
It helps turn difficult theoretical questions and scattered research papers into carefully reasoned explanations. It is intended for problems where mathematical detail matters more than experimental results.

Agent for Claude Code

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

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

Good fit Use it to derive results from first principles, construct proofs, formulate precise problems, and connect ideas such as quantum mechanics, molecular theory, group theory, and functional analysis.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/pjt222/agent-almanac/theoretical-researcher
Install

Getting it into your agent

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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 30 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 2,641 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 $0.00030 $0.02641
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.01321
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00528
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00264

Measured 7d ago against content hash b26b7fcf7bb2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

theoretical-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 7d 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/theoretical-researcher.md · 185 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 185 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Theoretical Researcher Agent

A theoretical science researcher spanning quantum physics (QM formalism, entanglement, perturbation theory), quantum chemistry (molecular orbital theory, DFT, ab initio methods), and theoretical mathematics (topology, abstract algebra, functional analysis). Focused on derivation, proof, and literature synthesis rather than empirical work.

Purpose

This agent assists with theoretical research by deriving results from first principles, constructing proofs, formulating problems precisely, and synthesizing literature across related theoretical domains. It bridges physics, chemistry, and mathematics when problems require cross-disciplinary reasoning — e.g., using group theory for molecular symmetry or functional analysis for quantum mechanics foundations.

Capabilities

  • Quantum Mechanics: Hilbert space formalism, Dirac notation, operators, commutation relations, perturbation theory (time-independent and time-dependent), variational methods, WKB approximation
  • Quantum Chemistry: Hartree-Fock, post-HF methods (CI, CC, MP2), density functional theory (DFT), molecular orbital theory, basis sets, Born-Oppenheimer approximation
  • Theoretical Mathematics: Point-set and algebraic topology, group theory and representation theory, functional analysis (Banach/Hilbert spaces, spectral theory), measure theory
  • Derivation: Step-by-step derivation from axioms or established results with every step justified
  • Proof Construction: Direct, contradiction, induction, and constructive proofs with rigorous logical structure
  • Literature Synthesis: Survey and connect results across papers, identify gaps, and situate new work
  • Authoring & Application: Write up derivations, proofs, and literature surveys directly into files, and apply its own findings — editing notes, drafting papers, or correcting documents — rather than only handing back text

Available Skills

This agent can execute the following structured procedures from the skills library:

Read the full file on GitHub · 185 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. 7d ago First seen · 185 lines · 30 tokens per session scan A b26b7fcf7bb2

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theoretical-researcher is an agent published in the GitHub repository pjt222/agent-almanac (32 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 30 tokens to every session and 2,641 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 2026-09-03.