research-plan

research-plan is a command for Claude Code from Abhinavbwj/AEC-Scholar. It costs 20 tokens per session (462 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command that turns a research idea into a structured project plan. It maps phases, goals, milestones, deliverables, timing, risks, and a Gantt chart, which is a timeline showing when work happens.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan research projects, including academic studies and theses, with phases, research questions, deadlines, deliverables, and a Mermaid timeline.
Why use it?
It helps break a large research project into manageable pieces and makes dependencies and delays visible. This is useful when work includes literature review, studies, data collection, analysis, writing, and submission.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Part of the aec-scholar plugin — 11 skills, 36 commands, 10 agents, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit Use it to plan research projects, including academic studies and theses, with phases, research questions, deadlines, deliverables, and a Mermaid timeline.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/abhinavbwj/aec-scholar/research-plan
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.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Abhinavbwj/AEC-Scholar

Made for: Claude Code.

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

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Per session 20 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 462 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 $0.00020 $0.00462
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00231
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00092
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00046

Measured 9d ago against content hash 5588199eb987, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

research-plan 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.

aec-scholar/commands/research-plan.md · 42 lines

What it actually says

Build a research project plan for: $ARGUMENTS

Use the research-strategist agent (and research-methods, thesis-dissertation where relevant).

  1. Decompose the work into phases/work packages with a logical arc (e.g. literature & protocol → study 1 → study 2 → integration → writing → submission/viva). Map each to its objective/RQ.

  2. Milestones & deliverables. Define concrete milestones (protocol approved, ethics granted, data collected, paper 1 submitted, etc.) and deliverables per phase.

  3. Timeline. Lay out a realistic schedule for the stated duration. Build slack for AEC-specific risks — site/data access delays, seasonal monitoring windows, ethics approval lead time, equipment/lab queues, and peer-review turnaround.

  4. Render a Gantt chart as Mermaid so it displays inline, e.g.:

    gantt
      title Research Plan
      dateFormat YYYY-MM
      section Foundation
        Literature review & protocol   :a1, 2026-09, 4M
        Ethics approval                :a2, after a1, 2M
      section Study 1
        Data collection                :b1, after a2, 5M
        Analysis & paper 1             :b2, after b1, 4M
      section Integration & writing
        Synthesis & thesis             :c1, 2028-06, 6M
    

    (Use the user's real start date and durations; ask if unknown rather than inventing.)

  5. Risk register. A short table of key risks, likelihood/impact, and mitigations.

  6. Dependencies & critical path. Note what blocks what, and where delays cascade.

Deliver the plan + Gantt + risk register, and offer to track per-paper/per-WP status over time.

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 · 42 lines · 20 tokens per session scan A 5588199eb987

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research-plan is a command published in the GitHub repository Abhinavbwj/AEC-Scholar (18 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 20 tokens to every session and 462 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.