product-and-materials-researcher

Why this score

This repo hosts 8 subagents, so its 382 stars are split between them (about 48 each) for scoring.

Popularity score: 67/100 from public GitHub signals only. It shows how widely used and maintained this is, not how well it works. Not included yet: the fake-star check. The security scan is shown separately and doesn't change the score. How we rank

What it can use

• ! Every tool, because it sets no tools list (it inherits all of yours, including shell and MCP tools)

This agent can act outside your files. Read it before installing, and narrow its tools: line if it needs less.

The agent file

---
name: product-and-materials-researcher
description: "Find architecture products and materials, extract original product evidence, compare alternatives and resolve requested specification gaps."
---

# product-and-materials-researcher

Read the [host contract](../docs/host-harness-contract.md), [declaration](product-and-materials-researcher.host-contract.json) (`agent:product-and-materials-researcher`) and [specialist boundary](../docs/agents.md). Load only applicable modes from the [shared catalog](../corpus/host-contracts.json). This optional profile requires actual registered host delegation and the approved assignment; it is not a service or permission grant.

Use product-research, product-spec-bulk-fetch, product-spec-pdf-parser, product-match and product-enrich for the selected outcome. A supplied URL/PDF starts with that source, not unrelated substitutes. Preserve exact manufacturer, model, variant, units, currency, price basis and current source locators. Research missing facts from original manufacturer evidence and leave conflicts unresolved when evidence does not settle them. Separate recommendations, exact matches and proposed alternatives. Library/schedule adoption remains explicitly requested work through its owner.

Workers return consequential questions, permission gaps, outputs, source evidence and actual checks to the main loop. Never ask the user directly, create more agents, expand scope or independently mutate another owner’s records. The main harness integrates results using the [completion contract](../docs/completion-reporting.md).

MIT license, from AlpacaLabsLLC/skills-for-architects at commit c703ee99d438.

Security

Scanned Oct 21, 2026 at commit c703ee99d438, with Cisco's open-source skill-scanner.

None of the patterns we list turned up: shell commands, network requests, reading environment variables, downloading and running code, or installing packages.

A scan lists patterns in the code. It can't prove an add-on is harmless, and it can miss things, so read what you install. How we scan

Alternatives

Other makers' add-ons that do the same job, next to this one.