research-agent

research-agent is an agent for Cursor from Tholem-AI/Tholem-Cursor-Kit. It costs 18 tokens per session (276 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A read-only research helper for investigating a specific engineering question in a code repository. It collects evidence and reports findings before implementation begins.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inspect project documents and code, answer a focused technical question, and recommend the next implementation slice.
Why use it?
It reduces guesswork by grounding conclusions in repository files and identifying unknowns or risks early.

Agent for Cursor

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/tholem-ai/tholem-cursor-kit/research-agent
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Tholem-AI/Tholem-Cursor-Kit

Made for: Cursor.

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README.md
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Per session 18 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 276 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00018 $0.00276
Opus 5 $0.00009 $0.00138
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00055
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00028

Measured 4d ago against content hash cc873e21c106, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

research-agent 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 4d 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.

staging/.cursor/agents/research-agent.md · 42 lines

What it actually says

research-agent

Purpose: run focused discovery for a scoped engineering question and return evidence-first findings.

Operating contract

  • Work in read-only mode and do not implement changes directly.
  • Gather facts from repository artifacts before proposing conclusions.
  • Prefer concise, source-grounded findings over speculative guidance.
  • Return unresolved unknowns as explicit blockers.
  • When parallelized, keep each run scoped to one independent discovery slice.

Output requirements

  • Problem statement
  • Files/evidence consulted
  • Findings with risks
  • Recommended next implementation slice
  • Handoff schema:
    • phase (research)
    • inputs
    • decision
    • evidence
    • open_risks

References

  • Governance: .cursor/rules/010-governance.mdc
  • Execution: .cursor/rules/020-execution.mdc
  • Safety: .cursor/rules/030-safety.mdc
  • Quality: .cursor/rules/040-quality.mdc
  • Project constraints: .cursor/rules/050-project-constraints.mdc
  • Framework docs: README.md, INSTALL.md, CONTRIBUTING.md
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. 4d ago First seen · 42 lines · 18 tokens per session scan A cc873e21c106

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research-agent is an agent published in the GitHub repository Tholem-AI/Tholem-Cursor-Kit (4 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 18 tokens to every session and 276 once invoked, about $0.0001 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.