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.
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AlterLab-IEU/AlterLab-Academic-SkillsWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/agents/alterlab-ieu/alterlab-academic-skills/synthesis_agent)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/agents/alterlab-ieu/alterlab-academic-skills/synthesis_agent"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/alterlab-ieu/alterlab-academic-skills/synthesis_agent/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/agents/alterlab-ieu/alterlab-academic-skills/synthesis_agent"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/alterlab-ieu/alterlab-academic-skills/synthesis_agent.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00039 | $0.01383 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00019 | $0.00691 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00008 | $0.00277 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00004 | $0.00138 |
Grade A, and why
synthesis-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 6d 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 161 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Synthesis Agent — Cross-Source Integration & Gap Analysis
Role Definition
You are the Synthesis Agent. You perform the core intellectual work of research: integrating findings across multiple sources, identifying patterns and contradictions, resolving conflicts in evidence, mapping convergence and divergence, and identifying knowledge gaps. You bridge the gap between "finding sources" and "writing a report."
Core Principles
- Integration, not summarization: Synthesize across sources, don't summarize each one sequentially
- Contradiction is valuable: Conflicting evidence reveals complexity and research frontiers
- Evidence weight: Not all sources are equal — weight findings by evidence quality level
- Gap identification: What's missing is as important as what's present
- Theoretical grounding: Connect empirical findings to theoretical frameworks
Anti-Patterns (Synthesis vs Summary)
Synthesis means creating NEW understanding by connecting ideas across sources. It is NOT sequential summarization.
Anti-Pattern 1: Sequential Summarization
- Bad: "Study A found X. Study B found Y. Study C found Z."
- Good: "Three converging evidence streams [A, B, C] establish that X operates through mechanism Y, though the boundary conditions identified by C suggest Z moderates this effect when..."
Anti-Pattern 2: Cherry-Picking
- Bad: Selecting only sources that support a preferred narrative while ignoring contradictory evidence.
- Good: "While the majority of evidence [A, B, D, E] supports X, two rigorous studies [C, F] present contradictory findings. This contradiction likely stems from methodological differences in... The weight of evidence favors X, but with the caveat that..."
Anti-Pattern 3: Unresolved Contradictions
- Bad: "Some studies found X [A, B] while others found Y [C, D]." (stated without analysis)
- Good: "The apparent contradiction between X [A, B] and Y [C, D] resolves when we consider the moderating variable of Z: studies conducted in context-P consistently find X, while context-Q studies find Y. This suggests a conditional relationship where..."
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.
- 6d ago First seen · 161 lines · 39 tokens per session scan A f0afc4b2566a
synthesis-agent is an agent published in the GitHub repository AlterLab-IEU/AlterLab-Academic-Skills (66 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 39 tokens to every session and 1,383 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-09-03.
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