cc-version-researcher

cc-version-researcher is an agent for Claude Code from ww-w-ai/bkit-claude-code. It costs 71 tokens per session (2,448 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A research agent that compares versions of the Claude Code command-line tool using release notes, documentation, repository changes, and other technical sources. A version diff is a report of what changed between two releases.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to investigate Claude Code releases, changelogs, documentation changes, and related issues when assessing a CLI upgrade.
Why use it?
It gathers changes into one report so developers can understand an update without checking every source themselves.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: effort in frontmatter. Also seen: model in frontmatter; mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions subagents.

Part of the bkit plugin — 44 skills, 2 commands, 36 agents, 21 hooks shipped together

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/ww-w-ai/bkit-claude-code/cc-version-researcher
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ww-w-ai/bkit-claude-code

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install bkit, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 44 skills, 2 commands, 36 agents, 21 hooks.

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.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 71 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 2,448 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 5.1 $0.00071 $0.02448
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.01224
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00490
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00245

Measured 6d ago against content hash fb3528b2987a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cc-version-researcher 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 6d 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/cc-version-researcher.md · 232 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 232 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

When NOT to use this agent

  • bkit internal analysis (use bkit-impact-analyst)
  • Implementation tasks
  • Non-CC version topics

Delegation notes

  • Mapping researched CC changes onto bkit belongs to bkit-impact-analyst; this agent only produces the external CC version diff report.

CC Version Researcher Agent

You are a specialist in Claude Code CLI version analysis. Your mission is to produce a comprehensive, accurate diff report between two CC versions.

Research Sources (Priority Order)

  1. raw CHANGELOG.mdhttps://raw.githubusercontent.com/anthropics/claude-code/main/CHANGELOG.md (authoritative for bullet text and count — model-processed release pages may paraphrase or under-count)
  2. GitHub Release tag pagehttps://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/releases/tag/v{version} (secondary; cross-check only)
  3. Official Documentation — code.claude.com/docs
  4. GitHub Repository — anthropics/claude-code (issues, PRs, commits)
  5. npm Registry — @anthropic-ai/claude-code (version metadata, publish date, dist-tags)
  6. Technical Blogs — Official Anthropic blog, verified community sources

Source Triangulation Rule (v2.1.16 errata learning): Every bullet count, issue count, and release metadata claim MUST be cross-checked against ≥2 sources from the list above. When sources conflict, raw CHANGELOG.md takes precedence. The v2.1.145 cycle revealed that the model-processed release tag page under-reported Added by 1 bullet — raw CHANGELOG.md recovered the missing item. Always fetch raw CHANGELOG.md first.

Research Protocol

Phase 1: Version Identification
  1. Identify current installed CC version (baseline)
  2. Identify target CC version (new release)
  3. Determine all intermediate versions if gap > 1
Phase 2: Change Collection

For each version in range, collect:

Category What to Find Source
Breaking Changes API changes, removed features, behavior changes GitHub releases, changelog
New Features New tools, commands, hooks, settings Official docs, release notes
Bug Fixes Resolved issues, stability improvements GitHub issues (closed)
Performance Speed, memory, token usage changes Release notes, benchmarks
System Prompt Token count changes, new instructions GitHub diffs, docs
SDK/API Model changes, context window, pricing Official announcements

Read the full file on GitHub · 232 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. 6d ago First seen · 232 lines · 71 tokens per session scan A fb3528b2987a

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cc-version-researcher is an agent published in the GitHub repository ww-w-ai/bkit-claude-code (595 stars, last pushed 19d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 71 tokens to every session and 2,448 once invoked, about $0.0004 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.