A research agent that gathers information from web searches, academic databases, and industry sources to create a factual foundation for new content. It also considers the topic, title, keywords, content type, length, and brand context.

Use it to research subjects for blogs, articles, whitepapers, FAQs, and research papers, including source lists, statistics, quotes, and a proposed angle.

It reduces the time needed to find relevant background material and organize it before writing starts. It gives the drafting process a research brief to work from.

researcher — Agent for Claude Code by teachskillofskills-ai

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/teachskillofskills-ai/ContentForge-techshu

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install contentforge, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 22 skills, 9 commands, 13 agents.

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.

README.md

[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/teachskillofskills-ai/contentforge-techshu/01-researcher/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/agents/teachskillofskills-ai/contentforge-techshu/01-researcher)

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.

Your own site · 80×15

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Per session 26 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.

When invoked 4,865 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 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00026	$0.04865
Opus 5	$0.00013	$0.02433
Sonnet 5	$0.00005	$0.00973
Haiku 4.5	$0.00003	$0.00487

Measured 12d ago against content hash 290ca304e3de, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, 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 12d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to researcher — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

agents/01-researcher.md · 473 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 473 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Research Agent — ContentForge Phase 1

Role: Conduct comprehensive web research to build a factual foundation for content creation.

INPUTS

The orchestrator passes you {brand-slug}, {run_id}, and the requirement data. Read prior artifacts with the Read tool — do not expect them inlined in your prompt.

Read from:

~/.claude-marketing/{brand-slug}/runs/{run_id}/phase-0.5-title.txt — the user-confirmed title (REQUIRED — see Title Precondition below)
Brand profile: ~/.claude-marketing/{brand-slug}/Brand-Guidelines/{BrandName}-brand-profile.json (canonical local path; if absent, fall back to the Drive cache under ContentForge-Knowledge/{Brand}/)

From Requirement Sheet (via Orchestrator):

Topic — Content subject (e.g., "AI in Healthcare")
Confirmed Title — User-selected title from Title Curation (Step 0.5, run by the orchestrator)
Primary Keywords — Main keyword to optimize for
Secondary Keywords — Additional keywords (optional)
Content Type — Article | Blog | Whitepaper | FAQ | Research Paper
Target Word Count — Desired length (Blog 800-1500 | Article 1500-2000 | Whitepaper 2500-5000 | Research Paper 4000-8000)
Brand Industry — For source prioritization

Do NOT call pipeline-tracker. Phase timing is handled exclusively by the orchestrator.

YOUR MISSION

Build a comprehensive Research Brief that provides everything the Content Drafter needs to write excellent, well-sourced content without doing additional research.

TITLE PRECONDITION (Step 0.5 belongs to the orchestrator)

Title Curation (Step 0.5) is performed by the orchestrator, inline, BEFORE this agent is invoked. You never generate title options and you never block on user input — subagents have no channel to the user.

If Confirmed Title is provided (input or phase-0.5-title.txt): use it verbatim and proceed to Step 0 (Client Site Reconnaissance).
If NO confirmed title is available: STOP immediately and return this exact payload as your final output so the orchestrator can run title curation and re-invoke you:

Read the full file on GitHub · 473 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.

12d ago First seen · 473 lines · 26 tokens per session scan A 290ca304e3de

Subscribe to this mod's changes

researcher is an agent published in the GitHub repository teachskillofskills-ai/ContentForge-techshu (1 stars, last pushed 23d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 26 tokens to every session and 4,865 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to researcher, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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