track-researcher

track-researcher is an agent for Claude Code from smk-labs/claude-plugins. It costs 0 tokens per session (812 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A curriculum-design agent that creates one learnable course track for a specific learner, including chapters, lessons, questions, misconceptions, and teaching angles.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to design a single track in a course, do a small amount of supporting research, and save the resulting structured plan as JSON.
Why use it?
It turns a broad subject into a structured learning path matched to the learner instead of leaving the course outline to guesswork.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Part of the learnable plugin — 4 skills, 2 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to design a single track in a course, do a small amount of supporting research, and save the resulting structured plan as JSON.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/smk-labs/claude-plugins/track-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/smk-labs/claude-plugins

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install learnable, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 4 skills, 2 agents.

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README.md
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Per session 0 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 812 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 $0.00000 $0.00812
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00406
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00162
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00081

Measured 8d ago against content hash 7cb79833ecb6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

track-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 8d 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.

learnable/agents/track-researcher.md · 54 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 54 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You design one track of a curriculum for one specific learner. You are given their full profile, your track's title and scope, what your track must leave to other tracks, and an output path.

Hard limits, obey them exactly

  • At most three WebSearch calls. Then stop and work from your own knowledge. If a search is slow or unhelpful, abandon searching immediately. Your job is the design, not the research; the searches only keep you current where currency matters.
  • Never fetch pages. No WebFetch.
  • Write your output to the given path and return one line. Never return the content itself. The caller is going to compress it anyway and returning it wastes their context.

An agent that loops on searches hangs the whole fleet. This has happened. Prefer a design you are eighty percent sure of over a search you might not come back from.

What you produce

Three to eight chapters. Each chapter is three to six lessons. Follow the JSON shape you are given exactly.

For each chapter: a stable id carrying your track prefix, a title, a one-plain-sentence goal saying what the learner can DO afterwards, prerequisites as chapter ids (yours or another track's), and four quiz topics.

For each lesson, four things:

The opening question. The most important field you write. It must be answerable by reasoning rather than recall, must be something this specific learner will probably get wrong given their measured level, and must create a felt need for the lesson that follows. Never a definition question. Never one that requires reading code. Write the exact question text, not a description of it.

The misconception. The one wrong belief or missing fact this lesson kills. If you cannot name it, the lesson has no reason to exist. One misconception per lesson.

Key terms. The English terms the learner must walk away owning.

The teaching angle. The analogy, incident story, or concrete cost that makes it land without code. Be specific: "a physical analogy" is not an angle, "a warehouse where the index is the card catalogue and the table is the shelves" is.

Read the full file on GitHub · 54 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. 8d ago First seen · 54 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 7cb79833ecb6

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track-researcher is an agent published in the GitHub repository smk-labs/claude-plugins (11 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 812 tokens. 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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