controlflow-researcher

controlflow-researcher is an agent for Claude Code, Cursor from Smithbox-ai/ControlFlow. It costs 33 tokens per session (239 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A read-only research agent that gathers evidence about a codebase or technology and links its findings to sources.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to find out how something works, investigate a problem, or collect evidence for a technical decision.
Why use it?
It reduces the need to investigate unfamiliar code or technical behaviour manually without a clear evidence trail.

Agent for Claude CodeCursor

Written for Cursor and Claude Code: installed under .cursor/, but also a Claude Code subagent (agents/*.md). Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to find out how something works, investigate a problem, or collect evidence for a technical decision.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/smithbox-ai/controlflow/controlflow-researcher
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.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Smithbox-ai/ControlFlow

Made for: Claude Code, Cursor.

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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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 33 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 239 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 unknown 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 $0.00033 $0.00239
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.00120
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00048
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00024

Measured 9d ago against content hash 4c3b456e521c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

controlflow-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 9d 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.

.cursor/agents/controlflow-researcher.md · 33 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

Read it on GitHub

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. 9d ago First seen · 33 lines · 33 tokens per session scan A 4c3b456e521c

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controlflow-researcher is an agent published in the GitHub repository Smithbox-ai/ControlFlow (13 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 33 tokens to every session and 239 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 2026-08-30.

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