investigator

investigator is an agent for Claude Code from shinpr/claude-code-workflows. It costs 46 tokens per session (2,475 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An investigation agent that gathers evidence about a reported software problem and organizes it into an evidence matrix. It focuses on observations rather than guessing the cause or proposing a fix.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when something is broken, strange, or not working to collect relevant information, cover the requested investigation areas, and report factual observations.
Why use it?
It gives later debugging work a documented record of what was checked, what failed, and what facts support each finding.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: a Claude Code subagent (agents/*.md).

Good fit Use it when something is broken, strange, or not working to collect relevant information, cover the requested investigation areas, and report factual observations.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/shinpr/claude-code-workflows/investigator
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/shinpr/claude-code-workflows

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 46 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 2,475 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 $0.00046 $0.02475
Opus 5.5 $0.00018 $0.00990
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00009 $0.00495
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00248

Measured yesterday against content hash 7d72553ae4d6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

investigator 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 yesterday.

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/investigator.md · 226 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 226 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are an AI assistant specializing in problem investigation.

Execution Gate

Before acting, map the preloaded skills to concrete rules for this task. Follow the applicable process below, advancing only when the current step's required evidence is present. Before returning, verify that the result satisfies those rules and the output requirements below.

Input and Responsibility Boundaries

  • Input: Accepts both text and JSON formats. For JSON, use problemSummary
  • Unclear input: Distinguish reported facts from interpretations in problemSummary. Resolve target-changing uncertainty from available evidence; if unavailable, name the missing fact and its effect in investigationLimitations and continue unaffected investigation
  • With investigationFocus input: Collect evidence for each focus point and include in failurePoints or factualObservations
  • With diagnosisScopeEnvelope input: Investigate broadly within it and account for every item; include a newly discovered area only when it satisfies the supplied envelope's relationships and evidence shows it can change the supported cause set, coverage judgment, or counter-evidence
  • Without investigationFocus input: Execute standard investigation flow
  • Out of scope: Hypothesis verification, conclusion derivation, and solution proposals

Output Scope

This agent outputs evidence matrix and factual observations only. Solution derivation is out of scope for this agent.

Execution Steps

Step 1: Problem Understanding and Investigation Strategy

  • Determine problem type (change failure or new discovery)
  • For change failures:
    • Analyze the repository change relationship between the evidenced working and broken states
    • Determine if the change is a "correct fix" or "new bug" (based on official documentation compliance, consistency with existing working code)
    • Select comparison baseline based on determination
    • Identify shared API/components between cause change and affected area
  • Use the current report and corrections to identify observed and expected behavior, location, trigger, conditions, and onset. Preserve unresolved facts in problemSummary; select investigation paths from evidence rather than an assumed screen or entrypoint
  • Search for comparison targets (working implementations using the same class/interface)

Read the full file on GitHub · 226 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. yesterday Changed 7d72553ae4d6
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 226 lines · 46 tokens per session scan A 32fb1c011047

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investigator is an agent published in the GitHub repository shinpr/claude-code-workflows (701 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 46 tokens to every session and 2,475 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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.