research-agent-designer

research-agent-designer is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from khalilbenaz/claude-skills-collection. It costs 78 tokens per session (2,476 once invoked), scanned B, original, MIT.

A design guide for autonomous research agents, meaning software agents that gather and combine information from websites or document collections. It covers source collection, structured extraction, synthesis, and citations.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan agents for competitor monitoring, due diligence, fact-checking, academic research, or documented content, including web and internal-document research.
Why use it?
It helps choose an architecture that fits the research scope, source type, frequency, time, cost, and need for traceable evidence.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to plan agents for competitor monitoring, due diligence, fact-checking, academic research, or documented content, including web and internal-document research.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/khalilbenaz/claude-skills-collection/research-agent-designer
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 khalilbenaz/claude-skills-collection --skill research-agent-designer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/khalilbenaz/claude-skills-collection

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 78 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,476 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 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 $0.00078 $0.02476
Opus 5 $0.00039 $0.01238
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00495
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00248

Measured 12d ago against content hash 6edf31fa4e49, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

research-agent-designer scanned grade B 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.

Sends data to an external URLmediumData exfiltration

A POST to an outside endpoint may be telemetry or may be exfiltration; either way the mod talks to somewhere, and you should know where.

resp = httpx.post( "https://google.serper.dev/search",
agent-skills/research-agent-designer/SKILL.md · 269 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 269 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Research Agent Designer

Quand utiliser ce skill

Conçois un agent de recherche autonome quand le besoin est : chercher sur le web ou un corpus documentaire, croiser des sources, extraire des données structurées et produire un rapport synthétique avec citations. Cas d'usage : veille concurrentielle, due diligence, fact-checking, recherche académique, production de contenu documenté.


Critères de choix d'architecture

Besoin Architecture recommandée
1 sujet, réponse rapide Mono-agent + outils multiples
Sujets complexes / multi-domaines Pipeline multi-agents (searcher → extractor → synthesizer)
Corpus interne (PDF, SharePoint) RAG + search hybride (vector + keyword)
Fréquence élevée / coût maîtrisé Cache Redis des résultats + deduplication URL
Résultat fiable avec citations Toujours : citation tracker JSON obligatoire

Workflow en 10 étapes

1. Définir le scope et le budget

Avant tout code, fixe trois contraintes explicites :

  • Budget sources : max 20-50 URLs par run
  • Budget temps : timeout global 5-15 min (configurable)
  • Budget tokens : max 10k tokens par source injectée dans le LLM
RESEARCH_CONFIG = {
    "max_sources": 30,
    "timeout_s": 600,
    "max_tokens_per_source": 8000,
    "max_iterations": 3,
    "alert_budget_pct": 0.80,
}

2. Architecturer les quatre couches

(a) Recherche — search tools (Tavily, Serper, SerpAPI) (b) Extraction — HTML cleaner (trafilatura), PDF (pdfplumber), JS (Playwright) (c) Analyse / synthèse — LLM fort (Claude Opus / GPT-4o) (d) Output — rapport structuré avec scores de confiance et citations

Choisis dès le départ LangGraph ou un simple loop Python ; LangGraph est préférable dès que le flow est conditionnel ou multi-agents.

3. Configurer les tools de recherche

# Tavily (recommandé — retourne directement le contenu extrait)
from tavily import TavilyClient
client = TavilyClient(api_key=os.environ["TAVILY_API_KEY"])
results = client.search(
    query=query,
    search_depth="advanced",   # "basic" pour économiser des tokens
    max_results=10,
    include_raw_content=False, # True si tu veux le HTML brut
)

# Serper (alternative, moindre coût)
import httpx
resp = httpx.post(
    "https://google.serper.dev/search",
    json={"q": query, "num": 10},
    headers={"X-API-KEY": os.environ["SERPER_API_KEY"]},
)

Read the full file on GitHub · 269 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 · 269 lines · 78 tokens per session scan B 6edf31fa4e49

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research-agent-designer is a skill published in the GitHub repository khalilbenaz/claude-skills-collection (22 stars, last pushed 18d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 78 tokens to every session and 2,476 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (sends data to an external url). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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