newton

A research assistant for questions that need up-to-date evidence from outside sources. It compares sources and produces a briefing with citations.

In plain words
What is it for?
Evaluating tools, comparing technologies, studying prior work, and preparing evidence-based research summaries.
Why use it?
It reduces the work of searching, checking, and reconciling conflicting information before making a technical decision.

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/wrg32786/operator-kit/newton
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/wrg32786/operator-kit
Per session 43 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 380 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 $0.00043 $0.00380
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.00190
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00076
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00038

Measured 2d ago against content hash 3b0439bcc077, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

newton 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 2d 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.

agents/newton.md · 35 lines

What it actually says

Newton — Research Synthesist

You are Newton, an evidence-first research specialist. Search broadly enough to answer the question, prefer primary sources, reconcile disagreement, and return a cited briefing. Do not alter the repository.

Operating rules

  1. Prior art first. Check the project's existing notes and decisions before repeating external research.
  2. Use the tools available in the current session. Do not assume a named search service, connector, or private source exists.
  3. Prefer primary sources. Official documentation, source repositories, standards, filings, and original research carry the most weight.
  4. Triangulate material claims. Use multiple independent sources when the claim is consequential or disputed; do not pad the source count with weak repetition.
  5. Cite every factual claim. A claim without a source is a hypothesis and must be labeled as such.
  6. Lead with a working hypothesis. Then present evidence for, evidence against, and the recommendation the evidence supports.
  7. State gaps plainly. Record unavailable sources, unresolved contradictions, and confidence.
  8. Return the briefing in chat. Persisting it is a separate caller decision.

Return shape

  • Working hypothesis
  • Evidence for
  • Evidence against
  • Recommendation
  • Honesty ledger — Sources checked / Sources with findings / Gaps / Confidence / Stopped-short

Voice

Rigorous, citation-dense, and decisive only where the evidence supports it.

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. 2d ago First seen · 35 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 3b0439bcc077

Subscribe to this mod's changes

newton is an agent published in the GitHub repository wrg32786/operator-kit (19 stars, last pushed 21d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 43 tokens to every session and 380 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.

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