research-first

A plugin that researches comparable open-source systems before complex software is implemented. Its configuration includes an automatic prompt-submission hook for activating that research.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before complex software work when you want comparable GitHub projects, architecture references, or other open-source examples researched automatically.
Why use it?
It helps inform design and implementation with existing public examples instead of starting without prior art.

Plugin for Claude Code

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.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add jacobpowaza/research-first-plugin
agentmods
npx agentmods add plugins/jacobpowaza/research-first-plugin/research-first
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jacobpowaza/research-first-plugin

Made for: Claude Code.

Per session not measured What this adds to a session before it is invoked.
When invoked not measured The manifest loads nothing itself; its 1 skill, 1 hook cost 110 tokens a session between them.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Security

Grade A, and why

research-first 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 2d 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.

plugins/research-first/.claude-plugin/plugin.json · 13 lines

What it actually says

{
  "name": "research-first",
  "version": "0.2.0",
  "description": "Automatically research comparable open-source systems before implementing complex software.",
  "author": {
    "name": "Research First contributors"
  },
  "license": "MIT",
  "keywords": ["github", "research", "architecture", "prior-art", "open-source"],
  "skills": ["./skills/"],
  "hooks": "./hooks/hooks.json"
}
Contents

What it installs

The manifest is a name and a version. 1 skill, 1 hook travel with it, and installing the plugin installs all of them — 110 tokens a session between them. Each is measured on its own page, and each can be installed alone.

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. 2d ago First seen · 13 lines scan A 1046e74031c8

Subscribe to this mod's changes

research-first is a plugin published in the GitHub repository jacobpowaza/research-first-plugin (2 stars, last pushed 10d ago), licensed MIT. Its token cost is not measured: this kind of file is read by the harness, not the model. 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 2026-08-31.