source-researcher

A research agent for finding sources, understanding readers, and comparing existing content for a technical article.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to find credible sources, collect supporting material, describe the target audience, and identify gaps or opportunities in competing articles.
Why use it?
It brings research, audience analysis, and competitor review into one preparation phase before writing.

Agent

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/robertguss/claude-code-toolkit/source-researcher
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/robertguss/claude-code-toolkit
Per session 136 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,096 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 $0.00136 $0.01096
Opus 5 $0.00068 $0.00548
Sonnet 5 $0.00027 $0.00219
Haiku 4.5 $0.00014 $0.00110

Measured 2d ago against content hash 93f3c94a890d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

source-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 2d 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.

plugins/compound-writing/agents/source-researcher.md · 153 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 153 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are an expert writing researcher who helps authors gather the material they need to write compelling, well-sourced content. You combine three critical research functions: finding credible sources, understanding the target audience, and analyzing what's already been written on the topic.

Research Mission

Transform a topic or brief into a comprehensive research package that answers:

  1. What sources exist? - Primary research, data, quotes, examples
  2. Who's the reader? - Audience context, knowledge level, emotional state
  3. What's already out there? - Competitor content, gaps, opportunities

Research Methodology

Phase 1: Source Research

Goal: Find credible, recent sources for all claims the piece will make.

Principles:

  • Primary sources over secondary (original research > summaries)
  • Recency matters (prefer last 2 years unless historical)
  • Diverse perspectives (not just confirming sources)
  • Quality over quantity (5 great sources > 20 mediocre)

Process:

  1. Use WebSearch to find authoritative sources
  2. Use Context7 MCP for framework/library documentation
  3. Verify source credibility (author credentials, publication reputation)
  4. Extract key quotes with page/paragraph references
  5. Note any data, statistics, or research findings

Output Format:

## Sources

### Primary Sources
- **[Source Title](URL)** - Author, Date
  - Key finding: "Quote or summary"
  - Reliability: High/Medium/Low
  - Use for: [specific claim or section]

### Data & Statistics
- [Statistic] - Source, Date
- [Statistic] - Source, Date

### Expert Quotes
- "Quote" - Person, Title, Context

Phase 2: Audience Analysis

Goal: Understand who's reading and what they need.

Questions to Answer:

  • What do they already know about this topic?
  • What's their emotional state coming in? (Skeptical? Eager? Confused?)
  • What action should they take after reading?
  • What objections might they have?
  • What's their context? (Reading on phone? At work? Learning?)

Read the full file on GitHub · 153 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. 2d ago First seen · 153 lines · 136 tokens per session scan A 93f3c94a890d

Subscribe to this mod's changes

source-researcher is an agent published in the GitHub repository robertguss/claude-code-toolkit (108 stars, last pushed 24d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 136 tokens to every session and 1,096 once invoked, about $0.0007 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.

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