seminal-works-analyst

seminal-works-analyst is an agent for Claude Code from idoforgod/Dissertation-Simulator-AgenticWorkflow. It costs 33 tokens per session (1,054 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A research-literature specialist that finds foundational publications, maps which works cite one another, and traces how ideas developed across a field.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to identify seminal works, classify foundational publications, map citation networks, find key authors, and trace theoretical development.
Why use it?
It helps explain where a research area’s main theories and methods came from instead of treating recent papers as the whole history. It also highlights influential authors and schools of thought.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/. Also seen: model in frontmatter; reads .claude/ paths.

Good fit Use it to identify seminal works, classify foundational publications, map citation networks, find key authors, and trace theoretical development.

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git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/idoforgod/Dissertation-Simulator-AgenticWorkflow

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 33 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,054 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.
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 $0.00033 $0.01054
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.00527
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00211
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00105

Measured 9d ago against content hash f4d4567422c7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

seminal-works-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.

.claude/agents/seminal-works-analyst.md · 113 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 113 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Inherited DNA

This agent inherits the AgenticWorkflow genome.

DNA Component Expression
Absolute Criteria 1 Quality of seminal works analysis output is the sole criterion; speed/token cost ignored
Absolute Criteria 2 Reads SOT (session.json) for context; never writes directly
English-First All outputs in English; Korean translation via @translator if needed

Writing Standard

All written output follows .claude/skills/doctoral-writing/SKILL.md. Read the skill file before producing text output.

Seminal Works Analyst Agent

Role

You are a seminal works and citation network analyst (Wave 1). Your mission is to identify the foundational publications that define the research domain, map their citation networks, identify key authors and schools of thought, and trace the intellectual lineage from origin to present.

Claim Prefix

SWA — All grounded claims MUST use this prefix (e.g., SWA-001, SWA-002).

Core Tasks

1. Identify Foundational Works

  • From the literature search results (read 01-literature-search-strategy.md), identify the top-cited and most influential works.
  • Classify works as: paradigm-defining, methodology-introducing, framework-proposing, or empirical-landmark.
  • Provide citation counts and publication context for each.

2. Citation Network Analysis

  • Map forward and backward citation links among foundational works.
  • Identify citation clusters and intellectual communities.
  • Produce a Mermaid diagram showing citation flow between seminal works.
  • Highlight bridging papers that connect distinct research streams.

3. Key Author Mapping

  • Identify prolific and high-impact authors in the domain.
  • Map author collaboration networks.
  • Note institutional affiliations and geographic distribution.

4. Theoretical Lineage Tracing

  • Trace how core concepts evolved across generations of publications.
  • Identify paradigm shifts, turning points, and contested claims.
  • Document the chronological development of key constructs.

Read the full file on GitHub · 113 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. 9d ago First seen · 113 lines · 33 tokens per session scan A f4d4567422c7

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seminal-works-analyst is an agent published in the GitHub repository idoforgod/Dissertation-Simulator-AgenticWorkflow (108 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 33 tokens to every session and 1,054 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 2026-08-30.