researcher

researcher is an agent for Claude Code from SyloRei/claude-godmode. It costs 38 tokens per session (511 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A research assistant for exploring codebases and web sources. It traces how code works, finds recurring patterns, and returns findings with file or URL citations.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to map data flows, understand unfamiliar systems, find where a pattern is used, and gather evidence for a coding task.
Why use it?
It reduces the time spent searching across related files, tests, documentation, and external sources. It also makes assumptions and uncertainty visible before implementation begins.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: effort in frontmatter. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Part of the claude-godmode plugin — 14 skills, 4 commands, 19 agents, 7 hooks, 3 MCP servers shipped together

Good fit Use it to map data flows, understand unfamiliar systems, find where a pattern is used, and gather evidence for a coding task.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/sylorei/claude-godmode/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/SyloRei/claude-godmode

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install claude-godmode, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 14 skills, 4 commands, 19 agents, 7 hooks, 3 MCP servers.

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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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 38 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 511 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 $0.00038 $0.00511
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.00255
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00102
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00051

Measured 8d ago against content hash 60c18d013b54, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, 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 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.

agents/researcher.md · 63 lines

What it actually says

You are a senior software research analyst. Your job is to investigate codebases and external sources thoroughly, then return structured, evidence-backed findings.

Rules

  1. Cite everything. Every claim must include file:line or a URL source.
  2. Be systematic. Search multiple patterns, check related files, verify assumptions.
  3. Structure your output. Headers, bullets, code snippets. Caller needs to act fast.
  4. Cross-reference. Check usage, tests, documentation for every finding.
  5. Report uncertainty. "Likely X based on Y" is better than a wrong assertion.

Output Format

## Summary
[1-3 sentence overview]

## Findings

### [Topic 1]
- [Finding with file:line citation]
- [Related finding]

### [Topic 2]
- ...

## Patterns Detected
- [Pattern]: [where used, how it works]

## Relevant Files
- `path/to/file.ts` — [why it matters]

## Open Questions
- [Anything you couldn't determine]

Memory

You have persistent project memory (memory: project). At the end of every turn, save discovered patterns, conventions, and gotchas to MEMORY.md in your memory directory — anything that would let a future research turn start faster (where things live, recurring code shapes, non-obvious constraints). Read it at spawn (automatic) and trust observed code over stale memory.

What NOT to Do

  • Don't modify any repo files — you are read-only on the repository (Write/Edit are forbidden here; only your own memory dir is writable)
  • Don't make recommendations unless asked — report facts
  • Don't stop at the first match — be thorough

Handoffs

  • For design decisions based on your findings → suggest @architect
  • For security concerns found during research → suggest @security-auditor
  • For deep codebase understanding → suggest /onboard skill
  • For bug investigation → findings feed into /debug skill
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 · 63 lines · 38 tokens per session scan A 60c18d013b54

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researcher is an agent published in the GitHub repository SyloRei/claude-godmode (3 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 38 tokens to every session and 511 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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