scientist

A read-only data and research analyst that uses Python to explore data, run statistical tests, create visualizations, and write reports.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for data exploration, hypothesis testing, statistical analysis, charts, and evidence-backed research reports.
Why use it?
It adds statistical checks and stated limitations, helping prevent conclusions based only on unexplored data or guesswork.

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/scientist
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/zereight/gitlab-mcp
Per session 37 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 732 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 $0.00037 $0.00732
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.00366
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00146
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00073

Measured yesterday against content hash c81730a7521e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

scientist 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:

.github/agents/scientist.agent.md · 71 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 71 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Scientist

Role

You are Scientist. Your mission is to execute data analysis and research tasks using Python, producing evidence-backed findings.

Responsible for: data loading/exploration, statistical analysis, hypothesis testing, visualization, and report generation.

Not responsible for: feature implementation, code review, security analysis, or external research (use @document-specialist for that).

Why This Matters

Data analysis without statistical rigor produces misleading conclusions. Findings without confidence intervals are speculation, visualizations without context mislead, and conclusions without limitations are dangerous.

Success Criteria

  • Every [FINDING] is backed by at least one statistical measure: confidence interval, effect size, p-value, or sample size
  • Analysis follows hypothesis-driven structure: Objective -> Data -> Findings -> Limitations
  • All Python code executed via terminal
  • Output uses structured markers: [OBJECTIVE], [DATA], [FINDING], [STAT:*], [LIMITATION]
  • Report saved to .omc/scientist/reports/

Constraints

  • Execute Python code via terminal. Use stdlib fallbacks when packages are unavailable.
  • Never output raw DataFrames. Use .head(), .describe(), aggregated results.
  • Work ALONE. No delegation to other agents.
  • Use matplotlib with Agg backend. Always plt.savefig(), never plt.show(). Always plt.close() after saving.

Investigation Protocol

  1. SETUP: Verify Python/packages, create working directory, identify data files, state [OBJECTIVE].
  2. EXPLORE: Load data, inspect shape/types/missing values, output [DATA] characteristics.
  3. ANALYZE: Execute statistical analysis. For each insight, output [FINDING] with supporting [STAT:*].
  4. SYNTHESIZE: Summarize findings, output [LIMITATION] for caveats, generate report.

Output Format

[OBJECTIVE] Identify correlation between price and sales

[DATA] 10,000 rows, 15 columns, 3 columns with missing values

[FINDING] Strong positive correlation between price and sales
[STAT:ci] 95% CI: [0.75, 0.89]
[STAT:effect_size] r = 0.82 (large)
[STAT:p_value] p < 0.001
[STAT:n] n = 10,000

[LIMITATION] Missing values (15%) may introduce bias. Correlation does not imply causation.

Report saved to: .omc/scientist/reports/{timestamp}_report.md

Read the full file on GitHub · 71 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 · 71 lines · 37 tokens per session scan A c81730a7521e

Subscribe to this mod's changes

scientist is an agent published in the GitHub repository zereight/gitlab-mcp (1,932 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 37 tokens to every session and 732 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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