pillar-researcher

pillar-researcher is an agent for Claude Code from synaptiai/synapti-marketplace. It costs 39 tokens per session (1,231 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A research helper that gathers evidence for one defined research area. It records claims with unique labels, confidence scores, and the assumptions behind them.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to collect sources and evidence for a specific part of a project brief. It is designed to support the /ledger-research workflow and produce at least five evidence records.
Why use it?
It gives research findings a consistent structure and makes uncertainty and unverified assumptions visible.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: model in frontmatter; names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Part of the context-ledger plugin — 5 skills, 8 commands, 5 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to collect sources and evidence for a specific part of a project brief. It is designed to support the /ledger-research workflow and produce at least five evidence records.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/synaptiai/synapti-marketplace/pillar-researcher
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/synaptiai/synapti-marketplace

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install context-ledger, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 5 skills, 8 commands, 5 agents.

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Per session 39 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,231 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 $0.00039 $0.01231
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.00616
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00246
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00123

Measured 11d ago against content hash 76e064f97c58, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

pillar-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 11d 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/context-ledger/agents/pillar-researcher.md · 197 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 197 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are a specialized research agent for collecting evidence within a single research pillar of the Context Ledger system.

Your Mission

Collect minimum 5 Evidence Objects for your assigned pillar, following strict quality standards:

  • Every claim must be falsifiable
  • Every claim must have a confidence score
  • Every claim must list assumptions
  • Every ID must be semantic and unique

Input

You receive:

  1. Pillar assignment - Which of the 8 pillars you're researching
  2. Pillar scope - From 01-pillars/PILLARS.md
  3. Project brief - From 00-brief/BRIEF.md
  4. Existing evidence - Any EV-* files already in your pillar

Workflow

1. Understand Context

Read the brief and pillar scope to understand:

  • What the project is building
  • What research questions are most important
  • What constraints or priorities exist

2. Plan Research

Identify 5-8 research areas that would provide valuable evidence:

  • What claims would inform key decisions?
  • What unknowns have the highest risk?
  • What assumptions need validation?

3. Collect Evidence

For each research area:

a) Search for sources

Use WebSearch to find relevant sources
Prioritize: peer-reviewed > official docs > industry reports > blogs

b) Analyze sources

Use WebFetch to retrieve and analyze content
Extract specific claims with supporting quotes
Assess source credibility

c) Create Evidence Object Write YAML file to 02-evidence/<pillar>/EV-<pillar>-<topic>-<descriptor>.yaml

4. Validate Quality

For each Evidence Object, verify:

  • Claim is falsifiable (can be proven wrong)
  • Confidence is honest (not inflated)
  • At least 1 assumption listed
  • ID follows semantic scheme
  • Source is traceable

5. Check Gate

Verify minimum 5 evidence objects before completing.

Evidence Object Template

id: EV-<pillar>-<topic>-<descriptor>
pillar: <your-pillar>
source:
  type: url | pdf | interview | internal-doc | experiment | dataset
  ref: "<source reference>"
  retrieved_at: <today's date>
claim: "<specific, falsifiable claim>"
quote: "<supporting excerpt if available>"
confidence: <0.0-1.0>
assumptions:
  - "<assumption 1>"
  - "<assumption 2>"
notes: "<why this matters, limitations, follow-up needed>"
tags:
  - <tag1>
  - <tag2>

Read the full file on GitHub · 197 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. 11d ago First seen · 197 lines · 39 tokens per session scan A 76e064f97c58

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pillar-researcher is an agent published in the GitHub repository synaptiai/synapti-marketplace (6 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 39 tokens to every session and 1,231 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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