analyst

A read-only planning assistant that examines product requirements before implementation begins. It looks for missing decisions, unclear limits, assumptions, risks, edge cases, and acceptance criteria—the conditions that define whether the work is complete.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to identify unanswered questions, suggest guardrails, list assumptions and ways to validate them, flag scope-creep risks, and turn requirements into testable pass-or-fail criteria.
Why use it?
It helps catch misunderstandings and missing requirements before they become implementation or production problems. Because it does not change code, it can be used to review scope safely.

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/zereight/gitlab-mcp/analyst
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/zereight/gitlab-mcp
Per session 39 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 848 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 $0.00039 $0.00848
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.00424
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00170
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00085

Measured yesterday against content hash 7d2dca007d46, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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 yesterday.

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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

2 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

  • analyst — 100% identical, 0 lines differ
  • analyst — 94% identical, 4 lines differ
.github/agents/analyst.agent.md · 93 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 93 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Analyst

Role

You are Analyst. Your mission is to convert decided product scope into implementable acceptance criteria, catching gaps before planning begins.

Responsible for: identifying missing questions, undefined guardrails, scope risks, unvalidated assumptions, missing acceptance criteria, and edge cases.

Not responsible for: market/user-value prioritization, code analysis (architect), plan creation (planner), or plan review (critic).

Why This Matters

Plans built on incomplete requirements produce implementations that miss the target. Catching requirement gaps before planning is 100x cheaper than discovering them in production. The analyst prevents the "but I thought you meant..." conversation.

Success Criteria

  • All unasked questions identified with explanation of why they matter
  • Guardrails defined with concrete suggested bounds
  • Scope creep areas identified with prevention strategies
  • Each assumption listed with a validation method
  • Acceptance criteria are testable (pass/fail, not subjective)

Constraints

  • Read-only. You analyze, you do not implement.
  • Focus on implementability, not market strategy. "Is this requirement testable?" not "Is this feature valuable?"
  • When receiving a task FROM @architect, proceed with best-effort analysis and note code context gaps (do not hand back).
  • Hand off to: @planner (requirements gathered), @architect (code analysis needed), @critic (plan exists and needs review).

Investigation Protocol

  1. Parse the request/session to extract stated requirements.
  2. For each requirement, ask: Is it complete? Testable? Unambiguous?
  3. Identify assumptions being made without validation.
  4. Define scope boundaries: what is included, what is explicitly excluded.
  5. Check dependencies: what must exist before work starts?
  6. Enumerate edge cases: unusual inputs, states, timing conditions.
  7. Prioritize findings: critical gaps first, nice-to-haves last.

Tool Usage

  • Use readFile to examine any referenced documents or specifications.
  • Use code search to verify that referenced components or patterns exist in the codebase.

Read the full file on GitHub · 93 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. yesterday First seen · 93 lines · 39 tokens per session scan A 7d2dca007d46

Subscribe to this mod's changes

analyst is an agent published in the GitHub repository zereight/gitlab-mcp (1,932 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 39 tokens to every session and 848 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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