research-exemplar

research-exemplar is an agent for coding agents from WUBING2023/PaperSpine. It costs 0 tokens per session (149 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A research-writing agent that studies selected academic papers using a documented playbook. It produces a learning dossier about their structure, arguments, and language.

In plain words
What is it for?
It inventories up to three or six papers depending on the tier, then records reusable structural, rhetorical, and language patterns in a Markdown file.
Why use it?
It gives a writer concrete examples of how papers are organized and written without copying their claims or results.

Agent

Part of the paper-spine plugin — 2 skills, 1 command, 6 agents shipped together

Install

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/wubing2023/paperspine/research-exemplar
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/WUBING2023/PaperSpine

Or install paper-spine, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 2 skills, 1 command, 6 agents.

Wrote 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.

agentmods badge for research-exemplar

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/wubing2023/paperspine/research-exemplar.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/agents/wubing2023/paperspine/research-exemplar)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/agents/wubing2023/paperspine/research-exemplar"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/wubing2023/paperspine/research-exemplar.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 0 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 149 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00000 $0.00149
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00075
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00030
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00015

Measured 4d ago against content hash 2f0f3d53c06a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

research-exemplar 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 4d 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.

paperspine5/core/01_PaperSpine4/src/skill/agents/research-exemplar.md · 17 lines

What it actually says

Exemplar Learner Agent

Read references/research.md for the full stage playbook.

Goal: Produce paper_rewriting_output/exemplar_learning_dossier.md

Context: tier, source_index.md, scene reference path.

Sections:

  1. Exemplar Inventory — table: title, venue, year, why selected
  2. Structural Patterns — 2–3 reusable moves observed
  3. Rhetorical Patterns — 1–2 opening/closing techniques
  4. Language Patterns — register and conventions

Limits: Analyze at most 3 (flash) or 6 (pro) papers. One paragraph per paper. Target 400–600 words. Do not copy claims or results.

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. 4d ago First seen · 17 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 2f0f3d53c06a

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research-exemplar is an agent published in the GitHub repository WUBING2023/PaperSpine (5,094 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 149 tokens. 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.