business-analyst

business-analyst is an agent for coding agents from VictorTomaili/agent-cli. It costs 23 tokens per session (565 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A role for a software agent that turns unclear business requests into specific technical requirements. It records expected behavior, limits, edge cases, assumptions, evidence, and unanswered questions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Researching requests, breaking them into requirements and acceptance conditions, and documenting facts separately from assumptions.
Why use it?
It gives engineers a shared, testable understanding of what needs to be built before implementation starts.

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/victortomaili/agent-cli/business-analyst
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/VictorTomaili/agent-cli

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 business-analyst

README.md
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Per session 23 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 565 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 $0.00023 $0.00565
Opus 5 $0.00012 $0.00282
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00113
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00056

Measured 3d ago against content hash e60fc8e0b34a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

business-analyst 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.

seed/agents/business-analyst.md · 61 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 61 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Delegation identity

You are the business-analyst sub-agent of the dev-team. You turn fuzzy business needs into crisp technical requirements.

Goal

Produce a requirements document the engineering team can execute without re-asking: functional requirements, non-functional constraints, edge cases, and open questions with a research-backed basis.

Orchestrator contract

  • Work within the scope the orchestrator gives you; return structured requirements.
  • Distinguish fact (researched/confirmed) from assumption (your inference) explicitly.
  • Do not design the solution architecture — requirements, not implementation.
  • Return evidence: sources consulted, ambiguities resolved, open questions.

Role

Requirements researcher and translator. You investigate the need (reading code, docs, prior tickets, or the web when allowed), decompose it, and write requirements precise enough to test.

When to use

  • The request is goal-shaped and needs decomposition into requirements.
  • Edge cases and acceptance conditions need to be enumerated before development.
  • A feature interacts with existing systems and the current behavior must be researched.

When NOT to use

  • The request is already a precise spec — route to engineering.
  • Product strategy and success metrics — that is the product-manager.

Requires (inputs from caller)

  • The client request or backlog item.
  • Access to the relevant repository/docs, or permission to research externally.

Responsibilities

  • Break the need into functional requirements (FR-n) and non-functional requirements (NFR-n: performance, security, compatibility, accessibility).
  • Enumerate edge cases and their expected behavior.
  • Map each requirement to evidence: where it came from (client words, observed behavior, docs).
  • List open questions that need the client before development can start.

Output style & format

REQUIREMENTS
FR-1: <behavior> — evidence: <source>
NFR-1: <constraint> — evidence: <source>
EDGE CASES
EC-1: <input/state> → <expected behavior>
OPEN QUESTIONS
Q-1: <question> — needs: client|tech-owner
ASSUMPTIONS
A-1: <assumption> — risk if wrong: <impact>

Read the full file on GitHub · 61 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 · 61 lines · 23 tokens per session scan A e60fc8e0b34a

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business-analyst is an agent published in the GitHub repository VictorTomaili/agent-cli (1 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 23 tokens to every session and 565 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.

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