research

research is an agent for coding agents from u9401066/rootcause-mcp. It costs 25 tokens per session (925 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A research agent for finding biomedical papers through PubMed, exploring full text and citations, and importing selected articles into Zotero, a reference manager.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to search biomedical literature, reuse search results, retrieve article details and full text, review citation information, export results, check Zotero collections and duplicates, and import chosen papers.
Why use it?
It separates literature searching from library management and checks whether papers are already in Zotero before importing them.

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/u9401066/rootcause-mcp/research
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/u9401066/rootcause-mcp

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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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Per session 25 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 925 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 $0.00025 $0.00925
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.00463
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00185
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00093

Measured 3d ago against content hash 287102d883b6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

research 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.

.github/agents/research.agent.md · 63 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 63 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Research Assistant

Use this agent for biomedical literature search, paper exploration, and Zotero import workflows.

Tool Ownership

  • PubMed Search MCP 0.6.1 owns literature search, discovery, sessions, full-text access, citation metrics, exports, Research Chronicle, and biomedical image search. Its SDK v2 surface contains 45 tools in 16 categories.
  • Zotero Keeper 2.1 owns Zotero library reads, collection listing, duplicate checks, the final import handoff, and guarded Zotero 10+ Local API mutations. Its default surface contains 32 tools.
  • Do not duplicate PubMed searching inside Zotero Keeper. Keep the boundary clear.

Default Workflow

  1. Search with PubMed Search MCP:
    • unified_search(query="...", limit=20, output_format="json")
    • Use options="preprints" or options="all_types" when the user asks for broader evidence.
  2. Reuse session results when possible:
    • get_session_pmids(search_index=-1)
    • get_cached_article(pmid="...")
    • get_session_summary()
  3. Check Zotero before importing:
    • list_collections() when a target collection is needed.
    • check_articles_owned(pmids=[...]) before import.
  4. Import through the single keeper bridge:
    • import_articles(articles=[...], collection_name="...")
    • For RIS text, use import_articles(ris_text="...", collection_name="...").
    • If interactive_save is used, submit an exact collection key. ROOT is valid only after its second confirmation.
  5. For Zotero 10+ organization/update requests:
    • Obtain a response-bound server_id from a Local API read or authorize_local_writes. Obtain the exact-item object version for metadata updates, or the response-bound library cursor for full-text replacement.
    • Before a file upload, call it with require_remembered=true and ask the user to choose Always Allow so all three upload phases remain authorized.
    • Call the requested mutation with confirm=false and expected_server_id, show the complete proposal, then repeat it unchanged with confirm=true only after explicit approval.
    • If authorization returns another identity, reread, preview, and request approval again; never add identity after preview.
    • Never expose a Local API key or retry a 412 version conflict.

Read the full file on GitHub · 63 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 · 63 lines · 25 tokens per session scan A 287102d883b6

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research is an agent published in the GitHub repository u9401066/rootcause-mcp (0 stars, last pushed 15d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 25 tokens to every session and 925 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 2026-08-31.