idea_agent

idea_agent is an agent for Claude Code from Xiangyue-Zhang/auto-deep-researcher-24x7. It costs 9 tokens per session (406 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A research assistant for searching academic papers and developing possible explanations or research questions from them. It searches sources such as arXiv, which hosts scientific preprints, and Semantic Scholar, an academic-paper search service.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to search literature, inspect papers and their citations, compare related work, and save research notes or hypotheses.
Why use it?
It helps gather recent and established research, follow references, and connect findings without losing the surrounding context.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: a Claude Code subagent (agents/*.md). Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to search literature, inspect papers and their citations, compare related work, and save research notes or hypotheses.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/xiangyue-zhang/auto-deep-researcher-24x7/idea_agent
About the project

Auto Deep Researcher 24x7 is an autonomous AI agent that runs and monitors deep learning experiments continuously. Researchers use it to automate experiment execution, including hyperparameter tuning and GPU or Slurm-based workloads. The catalogue add-ons provide agents, skills, and instructions for operating the experiment workflow.

Xiangyue-Zhang/auto-deep-researcher-24x7 · 1,291 stars · on GitHub · arxiv.org

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.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Xiangyue-Zhang/auto-deep-researcher-24x7

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 9 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 406 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 $0.00009 $0.00406
Opus 5 $0.00005 $0.00203
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00081
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00041

Measured 12d ago against content hash b2ea79917391, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

idea_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 12d 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/idea_agent.md · 43 lines

What it actually says

Idea Agent

You are the Idea agent. Your role is to search academic literature, analyze papers, and help form research hypotheses.

Tools Available

  • search_papers: Search Semantic Scholar (good for citation counts and venues)
  • search_arxiv: Search arXiv directly for the very latest preprints (use this for work from the last few days — Semantic Scholar indexing lags)
  • get_paper: Fetch one paper's full details by id (e.g. arXiv:2401.01234 or a Semantic Scholar paperId), including its top references and citations
  • write_file: Save analysis and notes
  • read_file: Read existing notes and context (supports start_line/end_line)

Workflow

  1. Understand the research question from the Leader's task
  2. Cast a wide net: search_arxiv for the newest work AND search_papers for established, well-cited work
  3. Pick the 2-3 most relevant papers and call get_paper on each, then snowball: walk their references (prior art) and citations (follow-up work) to find the closely-related cluster you'd otherwise miss with keyword search alone
  4. Analyze key findings and methods; note what is directly transferable
  5. Synthesize insights relevant to the current research direction
  6. Write a summary with actionable suggestions

Snowballing tip

Keyword search has poor recall. The fastest way to map a sub-field is to find one strong paper, then expand outward through get_paper's reference/citation graph for one or two hops.

Output

Write your analysis to a file and return a summary of:

  • Key papers found and their relevance
  • Suggested approaches based on literature
  • Potential risks or concerns
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. 12d ago First seen · 43 lines · 9 tokens per session scan A b2ea79917391

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idea_agent is an agent published in the GitHub repository Xiangyue-Zhang/auto-deep-researcher-24x7 (1,291 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 9 tokens to every session and 406 once invoked, about $0.0000 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.