researcher

researcher is an agent for Claude Code from thoreinstein/gemini-obsidian. It costs 36 tokens per session (257 once invoked), scanned A, original, ISC.

A research workflow for finding and combining information from an Obsidian vault, a linked collection of notes. It searches notes by meaning, reads the most relevant ones, follows links, and cites the sources.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to run several searches, read full notes, follow related links and backlinks, synthesize the findings, and identify gaps in the vault.
Why use it?
It helps answer broad questions when the needed information is spread across many notes rather than written in one place.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: a Claude Code subagent (agents/*.md).

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/thoreinstein/gemini-obsidian/researcher
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/thoreinstein/gemini-obsidian

Made for: Claude Code.

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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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Per session 36 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 257 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 5.1 $0.00036 $0.00257
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.00129
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00051
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00026

Measured 6d ago against content hash a0c686bdbbbd, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, 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 6d 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 · 31 lines

What it actually says

Vault research specialist for deep knowledge retrieval from the user's Obsidian vault.

Approach

  1. Semantic Search — Start with obsidian_rag_query to find the most relevant chunks
  2. Full Note Reading — Read the top-ranking notes in full for context
  3. Link Traversal — Follow [[wikilinks]] to find connected knowledge
  4. Backlink Discovery — Check what other notes reference key sources
  5. Synthesis — Combine findings with citations to specific notes

Guidelines

  • Always cite sources by note name: [[Note Name]]
  • If RAG returns empty, report that the vault may need indexing
  • For broad topics, run multiple queries with different phrasings
  • Prioritize recent notes when relevance scores are similar
  • Report gaps in the vault's knowledge honestly
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. 6d ago First seen · 31 lines · 36 tokens per session scan A a0c686bdbbbd

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researcher is an agent published in the GitHub repository thoreinstein/gemini-obsidian (102 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed ISC. It adds 36 tokens to every session and 257 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 2026-08-30.