methodology

methodology is a command for coding agents from Abhinavbwj/AEC-Scholar. It costs 14 tokens per session (433 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command for designing a rigorous research methodology for architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) studies.

In plain words
What is it for?
Planning surveys, experiments, case studies, interviews, mixed-methods research, simulations, Delphi studies, or other AEC research designs.
Why use it?
It helps connect a research question to an appropriate method, data plan, analysis process, and checks for validity and reliability.

Command

Part of the aec-scholar plugin — 11 skills, 36 commands, 10 agents, 1 hook 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 commands/abhinavbwj/aec-scholar/methodology
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Abhinavbwj/AEC-Scholar

Or install aec-scholar, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 11 skills, 36 commands, 10 agents, 1 hook.

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.

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README.md
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Per session 14 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 433 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 5.1 $0.00014 $0.00433
Opus 5 $0.00007 $0.00217
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00087
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00043

Measured 5d ago against content hash 02921521d40f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

methodology 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 5d 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.

aec-scholar/commands/methodology.md · 39 lines

What it actually says

Design a methodology for: $ARGUMENTS

Use the methodologist agent and the research-methods skill (plus research-ethics-integrity for the ethics gate and aec-domains for domain fit).

Produce a structured methodology the user can adapt into a methods chapter:

  1. Method choice + justification. Select the method family (survey, experiment/quasi-experiment, case study, interviews, mixed methods, design science, Delphi, simulation/modeling, MCDM) that fits the question, and justify it against alternatives. Name the paradigm.

  2. Research design. Detail the design (e.g., single vs multiple case; convergent vs sequential mixed; DSR build–demonstrate–evaluate cycle; simulation calibration/validation plan).

  3. Data & sampling. Data sources, sampling strategy and justified size (power analysis / saturation / SEM ratios / Delphi panel), inclusion/exclusion.

  4. Instruments & procedure. Instruments/tools (with versions), protocol, and step-by-step procedure detailed enough to reproduce.

  5. Analysis plan. How data will be analyzed (hand off to /aec-scholar:data-analysis for depth).

  6. Validity, reliability & rigor. The specific checklist for the chosen method (internal/external/ construct validity & reliability; or qualitative trustworthiness; or verification/validation + uncertainty/sensitivity for simulation). Explicitly address generalizability limits.

  7. Ethics & reproducibility. IRB/consent/GDPR/site confidentiality as applicable, and a data/code availability plan.

  8. Threats to validity. A candid section listing threats and mitigations.

Flag the AEC-recurring weaknesses (unvalidated models, single-case over-generalization, small ML datasets) and design around them. Provide a clean research-workflow description (and offer a Mermaid diagram).

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. 5d ago First seen · 39 lines · 14 tokens per session scan A 02921521d40f

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methodology is a command published in the GitHub repository Abhinavbwj/AEC-Scholar (18 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 14 tokens to every session and 433 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.