research-specialist

research-specialist is an agent for coding agents from Xananthium/claude-code-agents. It costs 0 tokens per session (1,700 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A research agent that checks implementation guidance against current software documentation. It looks for breaking changes, removed or outdated interfaces, and newer recommended practices.

In plain words
What is it for?
Checking guidance while implementing a library or framework, especially when a recent version is involved or an interface may have changed.
Why use it?
It helps prevent code advice from relying on documentation that has changed since the agent's stored knowledge was written.

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/xananthium/claude-code-agents/research-specialist
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Xananthium/claude-code-agents

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 research-specialist

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/xananthium/claude-code-agents/research-specialist.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/agents/xananthium/claude-code-agents/research-specialist)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/agents/xananthium/claude-code-agents/research-specialist"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/xananthium/claude-code-agents/research-specialist.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 0 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,700 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin unknown 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 $0.00000 $0.01700
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00850
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00340
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00170

Measured 4d ago against content hash 432f65f48204, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

research-specialist 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.

agents/research-specialist.md · 220 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

Read it on GitHub

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 · 220 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 432f65f48204

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research-specialist is an agent published in the GitHub repository Xananthium/claude-code-agents (2 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), with no licence file. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 1,700 tokens. 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.