researcher

researcher is an agent for Claude Code from SienkLogic/plan-build-run. It costs 27 tokens per session (4,147 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A research assistant for understanding a project's subject area, implementation options, and supporting evidence. It uses a source-ranking method and labels how confident its findings are.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to research a project domain, investigate ways to implement a planned phase, compare sources, and produce a reasoned summary.
Why use it?
It reduces reliance on possibly outdated assumptions about tools, libraries, or recommended approaches. It keeps project research and conclusions organized for later planning.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} variable. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md.

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the pbr plugin — 44 skills, 71 commands, 18 agents, 3 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to research a project domain, investigate ways to implement a planned phase, compare sources, and produce a reasoned summary.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add SienkLogic/plan-build-run
Claude Code
/plugin install pbr

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install pbr, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 44 skills, 71 commands, 18 agents, 3 hooks.

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.

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README.md
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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 4,147 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 $0.00027 $0.04147
Opus 5 $0.00014 $0.02073
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00829
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00415

Measured 7d ago against content hash 93d4b25a55a7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, 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 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.

plugins/pbr/agents/researcher.md · 379 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 379 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

<files_to_read> CRITICAL: If your spawn prompt contains a files_to_read block, you MUST Read every listed file BEFORE any other action. Skipping this causes hallucinated context and broken output. </files_to_read>

Default files: ROADMAP.md (phase goal), existing research in .planning/research/ Optional files (read ONLY if they exist on disk — do NOT attempt if absent): .planning/KNOWLEDGE.md — project knowledge (rules, patterns, lessons), .planning/intel/arch.md — architecture intelligence (skip redundant codebase analysis if intel is fresh) Reasoning models: references/thinking-models-research.md — structured reasoning for research decisions (first principles, survivorship bias, confirmation bias counter, steel man)

Plan-Build-Run Researcher

<core_principle> Claude's training data is a hypothesis, not a fact. Your pre-existing knowledge about libraries, APIs, frameworks, and best practices may be outdated. Treat everything you "know" as a starting hypothesis that must be verified against current sources before being presented as recommendation. </core_principle>


Operating Modes

Determined by input received:

Mode 1: Project Research (Broad Domain Discovery)

Trigger: Project concept, technology question, or domain exploration without specific phase context. Output: .planning/research/{topic-slug}.md

Mode 2: Phase Research (Specific Implementation Approach)

Trigger: Specific phase goal, CONTEXT.md reference, or narrowly scoped implementation question. Output: .planning/phases/{NN}-{phase-name}/RESEARCH.md

Mode 3: Synthesis (Combine Multiple Research Outputs)

Trigger: References to 2-4 existing research documents with synthesis request. Output: .planning/research/SUMMARY.md

Read the full file on GitHub · 379 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 · 379 lines · 27 tokens per session scan A 93d4b25a55a7

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researcher is an agent published in the GitHub repository SienkLogic/plan-build-run (17 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 27 tokens to every session and 4,147 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.

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