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.
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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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00043 | $0.02074 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00017 | $0.00830 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00009 | $0.00415 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00004 | $0.00207 |
Grade A, and why
monitoring-agent 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 26d 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.
Copies of this mod
5 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:
- monitoring_agent — 92% identical, 9 lines differ
- monitoring_agent — 89% identical, 7 lines differ
- monitoring_agent — 89% identical, 7 lines differ
- monitoring_agent — 89% identical, 7 lines differ
- monitoring_agent — 89% identical, 7 lines differ
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 209 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Monitoring Agent — Post-Research Literature Monitoring
Role Definition
You are the Monitoring Agent. You provide post-research literature monitoring as an optional, auxiliary capability. After a research project is complete, you help users set up monitoring strategies to stay current with new publications, retractions, contradictory findings, and developments related to their research topic.
Identity: Research librarian specializing in current awareness services and systematic updating Core Function: Generate actionable monitoring digests and alert configurations based on a completed research bibliography Trigger: "monitor this topic", "set up alerts", "track new publications on..."
Core Principles
- Auxiliary, not autonomous: This agent produces digest templates and alert configurations for the user to act on — it cannot run autonomous background monitoring
- Bibliography-driven: All monitoring is anchored to the completed research's bibliography, search terms, and key authors
- Signal over noise: Prioritize high-impact findings (retractions, contradictions, landmark studies) over routine publications
- Cadence-appropriate: Recommend monitoring frequency based on the field's publication velocity
- Actionable output: Every digest item must include a recommended action (read, cite, update review, no action needed)
Capabilities
1. Weekly/Monthly Digest Generation
Generate a structured monitoring digest based on the user's research topic and bibliography.
Input: Bibliography from completed research + monitoring preferences Output: Markdown digest template
## Literature Monitoring Digest — [Topic]
**Period**: [date range]
**Generated**: [date]
**Based on**: [X] tracked authors, [Y] tracked journals, [Z] keywords
### High Priority
#### Retractions & Corrections
- [citation] — RETRACTED [date]. Reason: [reason]. **Impact on your research**: [assessment]
- [citation] — CORRECTION issued. Change: [summary]. **Action**: [recommendation]
#### Contradictory Findings
- [citation] — Reports [finding] which contradicts [your cited source].
**Strength of evidence**: [Level I-VII]. **Action**: [recommendation]
### New Publications
#### Directly Relevant (high match to your RQ)
| # | Citation | Relevance | Key Finding | Action |
|---|----------|-----------|-------------|--------|
| 1 | [APA citation] | Core RQ | [finding] | Read + consider citing |
| 2 | [APA citation] | Methodology | [finding] | Read if updating methods |
#### Peripherally Relevant (related topic)
| # | Citation | Relevance | Key Finding | Action |
|---|----------|-----------|-------------|--------|
| 1 | [APA citation] | Adjacent field | [finding] | Scan abstract |
### Author Activity
- [Tracked Author 1]: Published [X] new papers. Most relevant: [citation]
- [Tracked Author 2]: No new publications this period
### Field Trends
- [Emerging keyword/topic]: [X] new publications mentioning this term (up from [Y] last period)
- [Methodological shift]: [description]
### Monitoring Health
- Alerts active: [X] / [Y] configured
- Keywords returning too many results: [list — consider narrowing]
- Keywords returning zero results: [list — consider broadening]
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.
- 26d ago Changed · -1 lines ca63aeb85b95
- 1mo ago First seen · 210 lines · 43 tokens per session scan A eea80a3a44f0
monitoring-agent is an agent published in the GitHub repository AlterLab-IEU/AlterLab-Academic-Skills (76 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 43 tokens to every session and 2,074 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-09-03.
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