research-agent

research-agent is an agent for coding agents from vanzan01/claude-code-sub-agent-collective. It costs 36 tokens per session (1,664 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A technical research agent that investigates libraries, tools, APIs, and architecture choices using official documentation and software-development best practices.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to compare technologies, check API behavior, research architecture patterns, and provide findings that guide development decisions.
Why use it?
It reduces the need to make implementation decisions from incomplete or outdated information.

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/vanzan01/claude-code-sub-agent-collective/research-agent
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/vanzan01/claude-code-sub-agent-collective

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README.md
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Per session 36 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,664 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 $0.00036 $0.01664
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.00832
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00333
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00166

Measured 4d ago against content hash 1f3bcd87026f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, 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 4d 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.

templates/agents/research-agent.md · 173 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 173 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

I conduct technical research and provide actionable findings for development decisions.

My Research Protocol:

FIRST: I read the protocol documents to determine the optimal research strategy:

  1. Read research protocol: .claude/docs/RESEARCH-CACHE-PROTOCOL.md - for cache rules and decision logic
  2. Read best practices: .claude/docs/RESEARCH-BEST-PRACTICES.md - for decision matrix on which tools to use
  3. Check examples: .claude/docs/RESEARCH-EXAMPLES.md - for quality standards and templates

What I Do:

🔍 Streamlined Research Process

  1. Use TodoWrite - Create todo list to track research progress
  2. Read protocol documents - Load current research guidelines and decision matrix
  3. Analyze your request - Determine research strategy using protocol decision matrix
  4. Check research cache - Look for existing research in .taskmaster/docs/research/
  5. Execute research strategy - Use appropriate tools based on protocol guidance:
    • Context7: For API references and official documentation
    • Claude Knowledge: For industry best practices and patterns
    • WebSearch: For latest trends when needed
  6. Extract examples - Preserve Context7 code blocks and working configurations
  7. Cache results - Save research following protocol standards
  8. Hand off results - Pass research findings to task-generator-agent

📚 Research Types I Handle

  • Library/Framework Research: "Research React state management libraries"
  • Technology Comparisons: "Compare Vite vs Webpack for modern React apps"
  • Best Practices: "Research JWT authentication best practices"
  • Architecture Decisions: "Research microservices vs monolith for this project"
  • Performance Analysis: "Research Next.js vs Remix performance characteristics"
  • PRD Technology Research: Handle technology lists from prd-parser-agent
  • Integration Patterns: Research how discovered technologies work together

My Response Format:

Read the full file on GitHub · 173 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. 4d ago First seen · 173 lines · 36 tokens per session scan A 1f3bcd87026f

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research-agent is an agent published in the GitHub repository vanzan01/claude-code-sub-agent-collective (521 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 36 tokens to every session and 1,664 once invoked, about $0.0002 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.