zbs-researcher: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

zbs-researcher CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from zbs-gg/zbs-researcher. It costs 1,369 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Project instructions for a deep-research Claude Code plugin that combines language-model research with direct sources such as GitHub, Reddit, Hacker News, hiring sites, and social platforms. It defines quick scans, entity-by-entity research, and an investigation mode that follows evidence and drills into problems.

In plain words
What is it for?
They are for configuring, running, and checking multi-source research sessions across technical, business, hiring, and online-community topics.
Why use it?
They give research sessions a consistent method for finding broader, source-backed information instead of relying on one general web search.

Instructions file for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} variable. Also seen: mentions Claude Code.

This is zbs-gg/zbs-researcher's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on zbs-researcher itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything zbs-researcher configures →

Runs only inside a plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else, and the catalogue could not identify which plugin ships it.

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to zbs-gg/zbs-researcher. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/zbs-gg/zbs-researcher/main/CLAUDE.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/zbs-gg/zbs-researcher

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When invoked 1,369 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan A 1 finding. 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 $0.01369 $0.01369
Opus 5 $0.00685 $0.00685
Sonnet 5 $0.00274 $0.00274
Haiku 4.5 $0.00137 $0.00137

Measured 12d ago against content hash b5d4716d822f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

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Grade A, and why

zbs-researcher CLAUDE.md scanned grade A with 1 finding 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

- **Stdlib-only** (urllib, threading). Telethon/MLX are lazy optional imports only; `yt-dlp` is an optional external tool the youtube channel degrades without.
CLAUDE.md · 47 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 47 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

zbs-researcher — Claude Code project instructions

Deep-research Claude Code plugin (skill deep-research): a multi-channel research runner — LLM lenses (Gemini/Grok/Perplexity, OpenAI opt-in, OpenRouter Tier-2) + free direct connectors (HN, hiring, Polymarket, GitHub, github-issues, Reddit via Arctic-Shift, Bluesky, launch-radar, revenue-radar, Meta Ads, Telegram, TikTok/IG, Threads) + a conversational onboarding wizard.

Three research modes (--mode, plus a session playbook): single (broad-scan, one blanket query per channel), entity-fanout (enumerate top-N entities → per-entity fan-out matrix), and investigate — the flagship, the forced default: a session-driven agentic loop (compose short target-scoped queries per source → --fire → read → drill → problems-first synthesis) that reads the platforms from inside. The product thesis: beat a web-index researcher (Parallel AI) on QUALITY — native full-breadth social/community depth + auditable primary evidence. "Free/cheaper" is NOT the pitch. Always default to the deepest investigate mode unless the user explicitly asks for a quick scan.

Operating contract (how to work in this repo)

This project is Nikita's proving ground for beating Parallel on research quality. The bar is high; do not take the easy path.

  • Pipeline, always. Non-trivial work goes through the compound-engineering pipeline: ce-brainstorm (WHAT) → ce-plan (HOW, implementation-ready) → ce-work (build) → adversarial ce-code-review before landing. Plan-first, tests-always. A change without a plan + tests + review is not done.
  • No shortcuts. Never ship the easy version to close the task. If a real fix is bigger, say so and do it — or surface the tradeoff explicitly. Corner-cutting here is the failure mode to avoid.
  • Ignore the skill soup. The one skill that earns its keep here is compound-engineering (the plan→test→review boundary). Do NOT reach for unrelated global skills (personal/creative/marketing skills, the reflexive "invoke a skill first" habit) — they add context noise, not value, in this repo.
  • Land via PR to origin/main (branch off origin/main — see [[two-unrelated-git-histories]]); merge/push/publish (npm, version bumps) are outward actions that need Nikita's explicit go.
  • Verify before claiming done: full unittest suite green (python3 -m unittest discover -s tests from skills/deep-research) + bash scripts/selftest.sh 10/10 + no paid calls in tests.

Read the full file on GitHub · 47 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. 12d ago First seen · 47 lines · 1,369 tokens per session scan A b5d4716d822f

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zbs-researcher CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository zbs-gg/zbs-researcher (4 stars, last pushed 26d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 1,369 tokens to every session, about $0.0068 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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