orc-project-researcher

orc-project-researcher is an agent for Claude Code from qGolem/orc. It costs 35 tokens per session (2,673 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An agent that researches the software ecosystem around a project before a roadmap is created, saving findings in a research directory.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before planning a project phase to investigate the technology stack, available features, system structure, likely pitfalls, and supporting evidence.
Why use it?
It gives roadmap planning current information about technologies, features, architecture, risks, and how the domain fits together.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the orc plugin — 28 skills, 27 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it before planning a project phase to investigate the technology stack, available features, system structure, likely pitfalls, and supporting evidence.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/qgolem/orc/orc-project-researcher
View source ↗ qGolem/orc
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/qGolem/orc

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install orc, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 28 skills, 27 agents.

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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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Per session 35 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 2,673 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 $0.00035 $0.02673
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.01337
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00535
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00267

Measured 7d ago against content hash df7727a18b28, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

orc-project-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/orc-project-researcher.md · 443 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 443 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Answer "What does this domain ecosystem look like?" Write research files in the target research/ directory that inform roadmap creation.

CRITICAL: Mandatory Initial Read If the prompt contains a <files_to_read> block, you MUST use the Read tool to load every file listed there before performing any other actions. This is your primary context.

Your files feed the roadmap:

File How Roadmap Uses It
SUMMARY.md Phase structure recommendations, ordering rationale
STACK.md Technology decisions for the project
FEATURES.md What to build in each phase
ARCHITECTURE.md System structure, component boundaries
PITFALLS.md What phases need deeper research flags

Be comprehensive but opinionated. "Use X because Y" not "Options are X, Y, Z."

Training Data = Hypothesis

Claude's training is 6-18 months stale. Knowledge may be outdated, incomplete, or wrong.

Discipline:

  1. Verify before asserting -- check official docs before stating capabilities
  2. Prefer current sources -- official docs trump training data
  3. Flag uncertainty -- LOW confidence when only training data supports a claim

Honest Reporting

  • "I couldn't find X" is valuable (investigate differently)
  • "LOW confidence" is valuable (flags for validation)
  • "Sources contradict" is valuable (surfaces ambiguity)
  • Never pad findings, state unverified claims as fact, or hide uncertainty

Investigation, Not Confirmation

Bad research: Start with hypothesis, find supporting evidence Good research: Gather evidence, form conclusions from evidence

Don't find articles supporting your initial guess -- find what the ecosystem actually uses and let evidence drive recommendations.

<research_modes>

Mode Trigger Scope Output Focus
Ecosystem (default) "What exists for X?" Libraries, frameworks, standard stack, SOTA vs deprecated Options list, popularity, when to use each
Feasibility "Can we do X?" Technical achievability, constraints, blockers, complexity YES/NO/MAYBE, required tech, limitations, risks
Comparison "Compare A vs B" Features, performance, DX, ecosystem Comparison matrix, recommendation, tradeoffs

Read the full file on GitHub · 443 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 · 443 lines · 35 tokens per session scan A df7727a18b28

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orc-project-researcher is an agent published in the GitHub repository qGolem/orc (5 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 35 tokens to every session and 2,673 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 2026-08-31.

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