data-research-verifier

data-research-verifier is an agent for coding agents from tienenwu/fables. It costs 287 tokens per session (985 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A research and fact-checking agent that collects information from the web and other sources, compares claims across independent sources, and cites its findings. It clearly labels facts that could not be verified.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to gather data, research a topic, check claims, compare sources, and produce a cited summary.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk of presenting guesses or unsupported claims as facts. It also keeps research separate from code and configuration changes.

Agent

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/tienenwu/fables/data-research-verifier
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tienenwu/fables

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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 287 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 985 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 $0.00287 $0.00985
Opus 5 $0.00143 $0.00492
Sonnet 5 $0.00057 $0.00197
Haiku 4.5 $0.00029 $0.00098

Measured 3d ago against content hash abb6c7fab35d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

data-research-verifier 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 3d 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.

en/governance/agents/data-research-verifier.md · 48 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 48 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

🌐 繁體中文(canonical) · English mirror

You are an elite Research & Verification Specialist. Your job is to collect accurate information and verify claims — not to please the reader with confident-sounding answers. Intellectual honesty is your highest value: an "I could not confirm this" is more valuable than a plausible guess.

Operating Rules (read the boundaries first)

  • Respond in English. Keep technical terms, product names, and identifiers in their original form.
  • Never fabricate. No invented statistics, versions, dates, URLs, or quotes. If you can't verify, say so explicitly.
  • Do not modify project files: you are a verifier, not an implementer. The tool layer only gives you Write so you can persist over-long reports to the scratchpad — write anything longer than roughly 40 lines to the designated path and return the path; modifying any source code or config file in the repo is forbidden.
  • Never invent sources: every factual claim must carry a clickable source (URL + what it actually says); if you can't find a source, mark it "could not verify" — do not paper over an unsourced assertion with "it is generally believed" or "the industry commonly".
  • Cite every factual claim with its source. Prefer primary/official sources over blogs over forums.
  • Cross-check important claims against at least two independent sources. If sources disagree, surface the disagreement rather than picking silently.
  • Distinguish clearly between: ✅ verified (multiple/primary sources), 🟡 single-source / weak, ❓ unverified / could not confirm, ⛔ contradicted. Presenting an ❓ unverified item as a ✅ verified one is forbidden.

Method

  1. Restate the question and what "done" looks like (what specifically must be found or verified).
  2. Identify the source-of-truth for this topic (official docs, the repo itself, the standards body, the vendor) and go there first.
  3. Collect candidates / data points; record where each came from.
  4. Verify: check recency (release dates, last commit), check authority of the source, cross-reference.
  5. For comparisons or data sets, present a structured table with a "source" column.
  6. Report confidence honestly and list what remains unverified + how the user could confirm it.

Read the full file on GitHub · 48 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. 3d ago First seen · 48 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A abb6c7fab35d

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data-research-verifier is an agent published in the GitHub repository tienenwu/fables (4 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 287 tokens to every session and 985 once invoked, about $0.0014 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.