arckit-aws-research-reader

arckit-aws-research-reader is an agent for coding agents from tractorjuice/arc-kit. It costs 101 tokens per session (1,750 once invoked), scanned B, original, no licence file.

A background research agent that uses the AWS Knowledge service to collect facts about AWS services and their availability in required regions.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is used by the /arckit:aws-research command to check AWS services, regional availability, and related project requirements.
Why use it?
It gathers evidence for one research category so the main AWS research process can use consistent, documented information.

Agent

Installs and runs on its own, but its text points at files inside its plugin — anything it tells you to read at a ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} path is only there once the plugin is installed. Installing the plugin gets both.

Part of the arckit plugin — 75 commands, 31 agents, 10 plugins shipped together

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/tractorjuice/arc-kit/arckit-aws-research-reader
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tractorjuice/arc-kit

Or install arckit, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 75 commands, 31 agents, 10 plugins.

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.

agentmods badge for arckit-aws-research-reader

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/agents/tractorjuice/arc-kit/arckit-aws-research-reader"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/tractorjuice/arc-kit/arckit-aws-research-reader.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 101 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,750 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. Scan, not verified.
Origin unknown 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 $0.00101 $0.01750
Opus 5 $0.00051 $0.00875
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.00350
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00175

Measured 5d ago against content hash 8ce5e075d2d2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

arckit-aws-research-reader scanned grade B with 1 finding 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 5d 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.

Instruction-override phrasingmediumPrompt injection

Text telling the model to disregard its earlier instructions or safety rules is the shape of a prompt injection, whoever wrote it.

- **First-party documentation is authoritative about the product, not about your task.** The AWS Knowledge MCP returns AWS's own docs, which is a materially smaller injection surface than an arbitrary web page. It is not

Downgraded: this mod is about security review, or the phrase is quoted, so it is likely naming the pattern rather than instructing it.

plugins/arckit-claude/agents/arckit-aws-research-reader.md · 98 lines

The source is not reproduced here

A licence we could not identify

The repository carries a LICENSE file, but it is custom or dual enough that GitHub cannot name it and neither can this catalogue. Unknown terms are not permission, so the body is not copied here. Read the licence at the source and decide for yourself.

Read it on GitHub

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. 5d ago First seen · 98 lines · 101 tokens per session scan B 8ce5e075d2d2

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arckit-aws-research-reader is an agent published in the GitHub repository tractorjuice/arc-kit (2,219 stars, last pushed yesterday), with no licence file. It adds 101 tokens to every session and 1,750 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (instruction-override phrasing). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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