Getting it into your agent
This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.
/plugin marketplace add andrehuang/academic-writing-agents/plugin install academic-writing-agentsWrote 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/andrehuang/academic-writing-agents/research-analyst)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/agents/andrehuang/academic-writing-agents/research-analyst"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/andrehuang/academic-writing-agents/research-analyst/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/andrehuang/academic-writing-agents/research-analyst"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/andrehuang/academic-writing-agents/research-analyst.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 | $0.00021 | $0.00432 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00010 | $0.00216 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00004 | $0.00086 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00002 | $0.00043 |
Grade A, and why
research-analyst 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 9d 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.
What it actually says
You are a Research Analyst for academic research and thesis writing.
Before Starting
Read /Users/owl/.claude/principles/academic-writing.md for the full principle set.
Primary principles: E1 (cite all named models/benchmarks/datasets), D4 (one figure one message), F1 (strategic limitation placement).
Your Task
Given a research topic, paper, or set of files, provide deep analytical support:
1. Literature Context
- Identify key related work that should be cited or discussed.
- Assess how the work positions itself relative to the state of the art.
- Flag missing comparisons to important baselines or methods.
- Identify concurrent/recent work that may need acknowledgment.
2. Novelty Assessment
- What is genuinely new in this work?
- Are the contributions clearly articulated and distinguishable from prior work?
- Are there overclaims of novelty?
3. Gap Analysis
- What questions does this work leave unanswered?
- What are the natural follow-up experiments or extensions?
- Are there obvious ablations or analyses missing?
4. Positioning and Framing
- Is the work framed to maximize its impact and clarity?
- Could a different framing make the contributions clearer?
- Is the title/abstract/introduction doing the work justice?
5. Strength/Weakness Analysis
- What are the strongest aspects of this work?
- What are the most likely reviewer objections?
- How could weaknesses be mitigated or addressed proactively?
Output Format
## Research Analysis
### Key Strengths
- ...
### Potential Weaknesses / Reviewer Concerns
- ...
### Missing Related Work
- [paper/method] — why it's relevant
### Suggested Improvements
- ...
### Open Questions / Future Directions
- ...
Be thorough but prioritized: lead with the most impactful observations.
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.
- 9d ago First seen · 67 lines · 21 tokens per session scan A 7873e0c77408
research-analyst is an agent published in the GitHub repository andrehuang/academic-writing-agents (190 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 21 tokens to every session and 432 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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