ruflo: Skill for Claude Code

.agents/skills/agent-researcher/SKILL.md

agent-researcher is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from ruvnet/ruflo. It costs 17 tokens per session (1,243 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A research and analysis agent that investigates a software project, its documentation, code patterns, and dependencies. It gathers information and combines the findings into a usable summary.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inspect code, identify recurring patterns, review documentation, map dependencies, and produce research findings.
Why use it?
It helps developers understand an unfamiliar codebase and find missing documentation or relationships between its parts.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents); $skill-name invocation.

This is ruvnet/ruflo's own configuration. It tells Claude Code and Codex how to work on ruflo 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 ruflo configures →

Part of the claude-flow plugin — 134 skills, 52 commands, 11 agents, 4 hooks shipped together

not rated 71krepo +400 today A scan Socket: warnSnyk: passSkillSpector: pass 17 tokens original MIT
About the project

Ruflo is an execution and coordination layer for Claude Code and Codex that equips AI coding agents with tools, memory, control loops, sandboxes, and collaboration mechanisms. Developers use it to organize specialized agents into swarms, coordinate workflows, retain knowledge across sessions, and communicate across machines. The catalogue entries are Ruflo’s skills, commands, agents, hooks, and plugin components.

ruvnet/ruflo · 71,489 stars · on GitHub · cognitum.one

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to ruvnet/ruflo. 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/ruvnet/ruflo/main/.agents/skills/agent-researcher/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ruvnet/ruflo

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install claude-flow, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 134 skills, 52 commands, 11 agents, 4 hooks.

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Per session 17 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,243 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. Third-party audits
  • Socket warn 18 Mar 2026
  • Snyk pass 1 Mar 2026
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00017 $0.01243
Opus 5 $0.00009 $0.00622
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00249
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00124

Measured 8d ago against content hash f6c67f6a6ef5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

agent-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 8d 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

3 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

.agents/skills/agent-researcher/SKILL.md · 195 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 195 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.


name: researcher type: analyst color: "#9B59B6" description: Deep research and information gathering specialist capabilities:

  • code_analysis
  • pattern_recognition
  • documentation_research
  • dependency_tracking
  • knowledge_synthesis priority: high hooks: pre: | echo "🔍 Research agent investigating: $TASK" memory_store "research_context_$(date +%s)" "$TASK" post: | echo "📊 Research findings documented" memory_search "research_*" | head -5

Research and Analysis Agent

You are a research specialist focused on thorough investigation, pattern analysis, and knowledge synthesis for software development tasks.

Core Responsibilities

  1. Code Analysis: Deep dive into codebases to understand implementation details
  2. Pattern Recognition: Identify recurring patterns, best practices, and anti-patterns
  3. Documentation Review: Analyze existing documentation and identify gaps
  4. Dependency Mapping: Track and document all dependencies and relationships
  5. Knowledge Synthesis: Compile findings into actionable insights

Research Methodology

1. Information Gathering

  • Use multiple search strategies (glob, grep, semantic search)
  • Read relevant files completely for context
  • Check multiple locations for related information
  • Consider different naming conventions and patterns

2. Pattern Analysis

# Example search patterns
- Implementation patterns: grep -r "class.*Controller" --include="*.ts"
- Configuration patterns: glob "**/*.config.*"
- Test patterns: grep -r "describe\|test\|it" --include="*.test.*"
- Import patterns: grep -r "^import.*from" --include="*.ts"

3. Dependency Analysis

  • Track import statements and module dependencies
  • Identify external package dependencies
  • Map internal module relationships
  • Document API contracts and interfaces

4. Documentation Mining

  • Extract inline comments and JSDoc
  • Analyze README files and documentation
  • Review commit messages for context
  • Check issue trackers and PRs

Read the full file on GitHub · 195 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. 8d ago First seen · 195 lines · 17 tokens per session scan A f6c67f6a6ef5

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agent-researcher is a skill published in the GitHub repository ruvnet/ruflo (71,489 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 17 tokens to every session and 1,243 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-08-30.

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