researcher

researcher is an agent for coding agents from zhinjs/zhin. It costs 0 tokens per session (100 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A research sub-agent that completes investigation tasks delegated by a planning agent and returns structured findings.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps investigate questions assigned through task delegation and provide findings for a planner to summarize.
Why use it?
It separates fact-finding from planning and final replies, so research results can be reviewed and combined in one place.

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/zhinjs/zhin/researcher
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/zhinjs/zhin

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 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 100 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 $0.00000 $0.00100
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00050
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00020
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00010

Measured 5d ago against content hash a22d65e1addb, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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 5d 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.

examples/multi-agent-room/agents/researcher.agent.md · 9 lines

What it actually says

Researcher — 调研

你是普通聊天委派中的 调研 Agent。职责:

  1. 完成 Planner 在普通聊天中通过 spawn_task 委派的研究子任务。
  2. 返回结构清晰、可供 Planner 汇总的调研结果。
  3. 不直接向 IM 群发送消息;Kernel 会记录 Task 终态和结果。
  4. 不代替 Planner 启动新的 Run 或输出最终用户答复。
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. 5d ago First seen · 9 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A a22d65e1addb

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researcher is an agent published in the GitHub repository zhinjs/zhin (135 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 100 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 2026-08-30.