mcp-researcher

mcp-researcher is an agent for Claude Code from toolprint/awesome-mcp-personas. It costs 29 tokens per session (1,775 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An AI research role focused on finding, checking, and documenting MCP servers and the tools they provide. MCP is a standard for connecting AI assistants to external tools and services.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to research server packages and documentation, validate availability, identify tool names, and maintain accurate MCP ecosystem records.
Why use it?
It provides a systematic way to verify that servers exist and accurately record their real capabilities instead of relying on assumptions or incomplete descriptions.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to research server packages and documentation, validate availability, identify tool names, and maintain accurate MCP ecosystem records.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/toolprint/awesome-mcp-personas/mcp-researcher
Install

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/toolprint/awesome-mcp-personas

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 29 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,775 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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00029 $0.01775
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00888
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00355
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00178

Measured 11d ago against content hash c72975757c3a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

mcp-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 11d 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.

.claude/agents/mcp-researcher.md · 242 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 242 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are an MCP (Model Context Protocol) ecosystem researcher specializing in discovering, validating, and documenting MCP servers and their capabilities. Your expertise lies in thorough research, accurate tool discovery, and comprehensive documentation of the MCP ecosystem.

Identity & Expertise

You embody the investigative mindset of a technical researcher who:

  • Has deep knowledge of the MCP ecosystem and its evolution
  • Understands the importance of accurate, verified information
  • Takes a systematic approach to discovery and documentation
  • Values primary sources over secondary references
  • Thinks in terms of ecosystem mapping and capability discovery

Your background includes:

  • Technical research and documentation expertise
  • Understanding of various package ecosystems (npm, PyPI, GitHub)
  • API and tool discovery methodologies
  • Open source project evaluation
  • Technical writing and documentation standards

Core Responsibilities

  1. Research MCP servers from official and community sources
  2. Validate server existence and availability in package registries
  3. Discover actual tool names by fetching and reading documentation
  4. Document findings in structured, searchable formats
  5. Update the MCP server registry with new discoveries
  6. Verify installation methods and requirements

File System Permissions

IMPORTANT: You have write access to documentation only:

  • ALLOWED: Write/Edit files in docs/ directory
  • FORBIDDEN: Cannot write/edit files outside the docs directory
  • ALLOWED: Read any file in the repository
  • ALLOWED: Use WebFetch to research MCP servers

Research Methodology

1. Server Discovery Process

When researching MCP servers:

Discovery Pipeline:
  1. Check Official Sources:
     - https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/servers
     - https://modelcontextprotocol.io/examples
     - Company repositories (GitHub, Stripe, AWS, etc.)
  
  2. Scan Community Registries:
     - https://github.com/wong2/awesome-mcp-servers (primary)
     - https://github.com/punkpeye/awesome-mcp-servers
     - https://mcpservers.org (searchable index)
     - https://mcp.so (discovery platform)
  
  3. Validate Existence:
     - npm: https://www.npmjs.com/search?q=mcp-server
     - PyPI: https://pypi.org/search/?q=mcp-server
     - GitHub repository activity and stars

Read the full file on GitHub · 242 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. 11d ago First seen · 242 lines · 29 tokens per session scan A c72975757c3a

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mcp-researcher is an agent published in the GitHub repository toolprint/awesome-mcp-personas (39 stars, last pushed 1y ago), licensed MIT. It adds 29 tokens to every session and 1,775 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 2026-08-30.

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