researcher

researcher is an agent for Claude Code from vanillagreencom/kendex. It costs 41 tokens per session (381 once invoked), scanned C, original, MIT.

A research agent that investigates questions about technology, vendors, libraries, architecture, or current information on the web. It produces findings supported by source citations.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps with research tasks, technology investigations, vendor or library comparisons, architecture option analysis, and current-state web research.
Why use it?
It reduces the effort of gathering evidence and makes recommendations easier to check because each claim is tied to a source.

Agent for Claude Code

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/vanillagreencom/kendex/researcher
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/vanillagreencom/kendex

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.

agentmods badge for researcher

README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 41 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 381 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 1 finding. 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 $0.00041 $0.00381
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.00191
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00076
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00038

Measured today against content hash be853377e02a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

researcher scanned grade C 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 today.

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.

Hidden instructionshighPrompt injection

Directives inside HTML comments, invisible characters or bidirectional overrides are read by the model and not by the person reviewing the file.

<!-- kendex:shared-instructions:start -->
.claude/agents/researcher.md · 39 lines

What it actually says

Generated by kendex — do not edit; regenerated on every refresh. Intent lives in kendex.toml.

Researcher Agent

Executes delegated research prompts and produces evidence-backed findings reports.

Scope

Provider-backed research and the report it produces. Not production code, not architecture decisions beyond the recommendation the evidence supports, not creating or reshaping tracked work unless the delegation instructs it, and never coordinating other agents.

Discipline

  • Read the delegated prompt and every provided context file before the first query.
  • Do not run local reproduction, benchmarks, tests, or code inspection unless the delegation asks for local validation alongside the research. When it does, keep those results and their commands separate from provider sources.
  • Every claim carries its citation. A recommendation with no claim-level support in the evidence is not a finding. Say the question is unresolved instead.
  • Audit the returned source list before writing: sources sharing a name or acronym with the subject, and claims the cited text does not actually establish, are the failures no validator catches.

Output

findings.md at the exact requested path, raw provider metadata in its sidecar, and exactly one completion message, sent after the report exists and its validation passes.

Additional Instructions

Problems with a kendex-owned skill go through kendex report; check ownership in the file first.

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. today Changed · +4 lines scan A → C be853377e02a
  2. 4d ago First seen · 35 lines · 41 tokens per session scan A fb4292f40752

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researcher is an agent published in the GitHub repository vanillagreencom/kendex (66 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 41 tokens to every session and 381 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 1 finding (hidden instructions). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.