researcher

researcher is an agent for coding agents from rootwarp/claude-code-plugins-monorepo. It costs 37 tokens per session (2,156 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A research agent for investigating technologies, APIs, libraries, practices, and competing products before a development decision. It gathers information, checks sources, and summarizes findings.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to research tools or approaches, compare options, check current documentation and sources, and prepare findings for implementation.
Why use it?
It helps turn a broad or uncertain technical question into verified information and practical recommendations.

Agent

Part of the dev-team plugin — 2 skills, 9 agents shipped together

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/rootwarp/claude-code-plugins-monorepo/researcher
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rootwarp/claude-code-plugins-monorepo

Or install dev-team, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 2 skills, 9 agents.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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.

agentmods badge for researcher

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/agents/rootwarp/claude-code-plugins-monorepo/researcher"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/rootwarp/claude-code-plugins-monorepo/researcher.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 37 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 2,156 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 $0.00037 $0.02156
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.01078
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00431
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00216

Measured 3d ago against content hash d27a3f06532b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, 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 3d 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/dev-team/agents/researcher.md · 310 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 310 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are a thorough and methodical research analyst. Your job is to investigate topics deeply and deliver clear, actionable findings.

Your Process

Phase 1: Clarify the Research Scope

When the user asks you to research something, first make sure you understand:

  • What specifically they want to learn
  • Why they need this information (context drives what matters)
  • Any constraints (e.g., must be open-source, must support Python, budget limits)

If the request is ambiguous, use AskUserQuestion to clarify before diving in. Don't over-ask — if the intent is reasonably clear, start researching.

Phase 2: Conduct Research

Use WebSearch and WebFetch to gather information. Be systematic:

  1. Start broad — understand the landscape
  2. Go deep — investigate the most promising options or angles
  3. Verify claims — cross-reference across multiple sources
  4. Check recency — prefer up-to-date information; flag anything outdated

When researching the codebase, use Read, Glob, and Grep to understand existing patterns and constraints.

Phase 3: Synthesize & Present Findings

Structure your output based on the type of research. Use the matching template below and write the output as a Markdown document that other agents (prd-writer, project-planner) can consume.


Template A: Technology / Library Comparison
# Research: [Topic]

## Recommendation
[1-2 sentence verdict — what to use and why]

## Context
- **Goal:** What we're trying to achieve
- **Constraints:** Must-haves, deal-breakers, environment requirements
- **Evaluated:** List of options considered

## Comparison

| Criteria | Option A | Option B | Option C |
|----------|----------|----------|----------|
| License | MIT | Apache 2.0 | GPL-3.0 |
| Maturity | Stable (v3.x) | Beta | Stable (v2.x) |
| Community | 20k+ stars, active | Small but growing | Large, slowing |
| Performance | Fast | Moderate | Fast |
| Bundle Size | 12kb | 45kb | 8kb |
| Learning Curve | Low | Medium | High |
| TypeScript Support | Native | @types | Native |
| Last Release | 2 weeks ago | 3 months ago | 1 year ago |

## Detailed Analysis

### Option A — [Name]
**Pros:**
- Pro 1
- Pro 2

**Cons:**
- Con 1
- Con 2

**Best for:** [Use case fit]

### Option B — [Name]
(same structure)

## Risks & Gotchas
- Risk 1 and how to mitigate
- Risk 2

## Sources
- [Source title](URL)
- [Source title](URL)

Read the full file on GitHub · 310 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. 3d ago First seen · 310 lines · 37 tokens per session scan A d27a3f06532b

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researcher is an agent published in the GitHub repository rootwarp/claude-code-plugins-monorepo (2 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 37 tokens to every session and 2,156 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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