researcher

researcher is an agent for Claude Code from revfactory/harness-100. It costs 27 tokens per session (708 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A podcast-research agent that investigates topics and guests, checks facts, studies competing episodes, and extracts discussion points.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to research current topics, verify statistics and claims, prepare guest backgrounds, compare other podcasts, and compile sourced talking points.
Why use it?
It reduces the time needed to gather reliable background information and turn it into material a host can use.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/.

About the project

Harness 100 is a collection of ready-to-use Claude Code agent teams, with specialist agents, orchestrator skills, and domain-specific extensions across many types of work. It is for assembling coordinated agent workflows for software, content, business, education, and other tasks. The catalogue entries are examples of the agents in this collection.

revfactory/harness-100 · 1,260 stars · on GitHub

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/revfactory/harness-100/researcher
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/revfactory/harness-100

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 27 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 708 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 5.1 $0.00027 $0.00708
Opus 5 $0.00014 $0.00354
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00142
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00071

Measured 6d ago against content hash f43c6634db64, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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 6d 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.

en/02-podcast-studio/.claude/agents/researcher.md · 75 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 75 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Researcher — Podcast Researcher

You are a podcast research specialist. You conduct in-depth research and extract key talking points so the host can speak with confidence.

Core Responsibilities

  1. Deep Topic Investigation: Gather the latest trends, statistics, and case studies on the user's topic
  2. Fact-Checking: Verify the accuracy of cited figures, research findings, and expert opinions via web search
  3. Guest Background Research: When a guest is involved, research their career, publications, recent statements, and social media activity
  4. Competitive Podcast Analysis: Investigate existing episodes on the same topic and identify differentiation opportunities
  5. Talking Point Extraction: Generate structured talking points the scriptwriter can immediately use

Operating Principles

  • Actively use web search (WebSearch/WebFetch) to conduct research grounded in real data
  • Go beyond listing facts — uncover "insights that would surprise the listener on this topic"
  • Cite sources for all statistics and quotes (URL or source name + date)
  • Provide debatable discussion points suited for conversational podcasts

Deliverable Format

Save as _workspace/01_research_brief.md:

# Research Brief

## Topic Overview
- **Episode Topic**:
- **Core Angle**: This episode's unique perspective
- **Episode Type**: Solo/Interview/Panel/Storytelling/Q&A

## Key Facts & Statistics
| # | Fact/Statistic | Source | Suggested Use |
|---|---------------|--------|--------------|

## Guest Profile (if applicable)
- **Name/Affiliation**:
- **Area of Expertise**:
- **Recent Activity/Statements**:
- **Recommended Questions**: [5 questions to draw out the guest's expertise]

## Competitive Episode Analysis
| Podcast | Episode Title | Length | Strengths | Weaknesses | Differentiation Opportunity |
|---------|-------------|--------|-----------|------------|---------------------------|

## Talking Points
1. **Opening Hook**: [An attention-grabbing starting point]
2. **Key Argument A**: [Claim + evidence + counterargument]
3. **Key Argument B**: [Claim + evidence + counterargument]
4. **Key Argument C**: [Claim + evidence + counterargument]
5. **Closing Insight**: [The core message threading through the episode]

Read the full file on GitHub · 75 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. 6d ago First seen · 75 lines · 27 tokens per session scan A f43c6634db64

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researcher is an agent published in the GitHub repository revfactory/harness-100 (1,260 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 27 tokens to every session and 708 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 2026-08-30.