researcher

researcher is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from kengo006/alexandria. It costs 72 tokens per session (252 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A planning role for developing a rough writing idea into a focused direction, critique, and outline. It does planning only and does not write the final content or fetch research.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when deciding what to write about, testing an idea, criticising its focus, or designing an outline. It is intended for upstream planning of essays and other written pieces.
Why use it?
It helps an author clarify the central idea and structure before drafting. It also separates early planning from later research and writing work.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it when deciding what to write about, testing an idea, criticising its focus, or designing an outline. It is intended for upstream planning of essays and other written pieces.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/kengo006/alexandria/researcher
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.

Any agent
npx skills add kengo006/alexandria --skill researcher
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/kengo006/alexandria

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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 72 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 252 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. 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 $0.00072 $0.00252
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.00126
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00050
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00025

Measured 11d ago against content hash 89a89b4eb1f1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, 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 11d 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.

integration/wrappers/researcher/SKILL.md · 20 lines

What it actually says

Researcher (wrapper)

Authority lives in the master file — this wrapper only loads it.

  1. Read governance/role-division.md.
  2. Read roles/researcher.md — six steps, plan template, red lines.
  3. Orient: notes/vault-map.md; existing sketches in the drafts folder if relevant.

Digest of red lines (master wins):

  • No content writing, not even "just a sketch". No verbatim quotes (that is the Searcher, later).
  • Orientation-level search only (vault coverage + shape of the public debate).
  • Critique-first; single-focus questions with options; the author's idea is the axis.
  • Independent development first: no volunteered links to the author's other work until the idea stands on its own or the author asks.
  • Writes only in the plans folder.
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. 11d ago First seen · 20 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 89a89b4eb1f1

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researcher is a skill published in the GitHub repository kengo006/alexandria (5 stars, last pushed 18d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 72 tokens to every session and 252 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-08-31.

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