proposal

proposal is a command for coding agents from Abhinavbwj/AEC-Scholar. It costs 19 tokens per session (419 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A structured research-proposal planner for a PhD, project, or confirmation study, rather than a funding application.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to develop the background, rationale, research questions, methodology, contribution, work plan, and milestones for a proposed study.
Why use it?
It helps connect the research problem and gap to questions, methods, ethics, expected contributions, and a realistic timeline. It also prompts the researcher to verify the claimed gap with a real literature search.

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/proposal
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.

agentmods badge for proposal

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/commands/abhinavbwj/aec-scholar/proposal.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/commands/abhinavbwj/aec-scholar/proposal)
Your own site
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Per session 19 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 419 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 $0.00019 $0.00419
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00210
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00084
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00042

Measured 5d ago against content hash cb5059b2c623, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

proposal 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/proposal.md · 36 lines

What it actually says

Develop a research proposal for: $ARGUMENTS

Use the research-strategist and methodologist agents, plus research-methods, aec-domains, systematic-review and research-ethics-integrity. (For funding bids use /aec-scholar:grant-proposal.)

Produce a structured proposal the user can refine:

  1. Background & significance — the problem, why it matters (scholarly + industry), and the conceptual framing. Ground terminology in aec-domains.

  2. Gap & rationale — the specific, defensible gap (link /aec-scholar:research-gap); justify why it is worth a multi-year study and tell the user to confirm it with a real search.

  3. Aim, research questions & objectives — a clear central aim and 1–4 well-formed RQs (PICO/PCC/SPIDER; FINER-checked — see /aec-scholar:research-question).

  4. Proposed methodology — design, data/sites, sampling, methods per RQ, analysis, validity, and ethics (link /aec-scholar:methodology). Be realistic about access and scale.

  5. Expected contribution & impact — what new knowledge/artifact results, and academic + practical implications.

  6. Work plan & timeline — phases, milestones, deliverables, and a Gantt outline; risks and mitigations.

  7. Preliminary work (if any) and resources needed.

Mark every placeholder the researcher must supply with real evidence (preliminary data, supervisor input, access agreements). Tailor to a confirmation/upgrade report, a PhD application, or a project proposal as the user indicates.

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 · 36 lines · 19 tokens per session scan A cb5059b2c623

Subscribe to this mod's changes

proposal is a command published in the GitHub repository Abhinavbwj/AEC-Scholar (18 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 19 tokens to every session and 419 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.