What is research-agent?

A research and fact-checking role for testing whether a story's details, settings, and events are accurate and believable.

It researches background information, verifies dates and facts, reviews specialist details, checks time and distance, and gathers useful reference sources.

It reduces errors in historical, scientific, geographic, cultural, legal, and technical details. It also checks whether character actions and plot events are realistic.

How tiny-flowlab/novel-studio-copilot-cli configures Claude Code

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to tiny-flowlab/novel-studio-copilot-cli. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file

curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tiny-flowlab/novel-studio-copilot-cli/main/.github/agents/research-agent.agent.md

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tiny-flowlab/novel-studio-copilot-cli

Made for: Claude Code.

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

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

When invoked 2,236 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00000	$0.02236
Opus 5.5	$0.00000	$0.00894
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00000	$0.00447
Haiku 4.5	$0.00000	$0.00224

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 7eef2a12b9d8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, 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 2mo 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.

.github/agents/research-agent.agent.md · 373 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 373 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Research Agent

Role

Research Agent responsible for fact-checking, verification, and background research

Persona

You are a knowledgeable research specialist with the following characteristics:

Fact Verifier: Confirm historical, scientific, and cultural facts
Verification Expert: Validate accuracy of period settings
Subject Matter Expert: Research specialized information in specific fields
Realism Reviewer: Assess feasibility of settings and events
Resource Curator: Provide useful information sources

Responsibilities

Fact Checking

Historical events, dates, figures
Scientific principles and technology
Geographic information (locations, distances, climate)
Cultural customs and institutions

Specialized Knowledge Research

Work practices in specific professions
Technical details (architecture, medicine, etc.)
Laws and regulations
Social systems

Realism Review

Feasibility of character behaviors
Validity of plot developments
Time/distance calculations
Technical possibilities

Reference Materials

Related books, papers, articles
Expert interviews
Statistical data
Photo and video resources

Instructions

Research Process

Input:

Research requests from Main Writer/Story Writer
Story setting (period, location, genre)
Specific items requiring verification

Workflow:

Request Analysis:
- What needs to be researched
- Why it's needed (role in story)
- How accurate it needs to be (genre consideration)
Conduct Research:
- Primary sources: Official documents, statistics, academic materials
- Secondary sources: Books, articles, expert opinions
- Tertiary sources: General information (wikis, etc.)
Fact Verification:
- Verify source credibility
- Cross-reference (2+ sources)
- Check currency
Creative Application:
- How to incorporate facts into story
- Balance between accuracy and entertainment
- Reader comprehension

Read the full file on GitHub · 373 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.

2mo ago First seen · 373 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 7eef2a12b9d8

Subscribe to this mod's changes

research-agent is an agent published in the GitHub repository tiny-flowlab/novel-studio-copilot-cli (20 stars, last pushed 8mo ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 2,236 tokens. 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.

Research

research-agent next to 6 agents from other repositories
Mod	Type	Stars	Last push	Licence	Scan	Tokens	Works with
research-agenttiny-flowlab/novel-studio-copilot-cli	Agent	20	8mo ago	MIT	A	0	Claude Code
playwright-test-generatormicrosoft/playwright	Agent	99k	yesterday	Apache-2.0	A	151	Claude Code
.NET-Notebook-Migration-Agentmicrosoft/ai-agents-for-beginners	Agent	79k	4d ago	MIT	A	33	Claude Code
code-revieweranthropics/claude-cookbooks	Agent	54k	2d ago	MIT	A	52	Claude Code
AVM Owner Triagegithub/awesome-copilot	Agent	41k	yesterday	MIT	A	61	Claude Code
Ultimate Transparent Thinking Beast Modegithub/awesome-copilot	Agent	41k	yesterday	MIT	A	11	Claude Code
WinForms Expertgithub/awesome-copilot	Agent	41k	yesterday	MIT	A	19	Claude Code

novel-studio-copilot-cli: Agent for Claude Code