thesis

thesis is a command for Claude Code from Abhinavbwj/AEC-Scholar. It costs 18 tokens per session (406 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A service for planning, structuring, or improving a PhD thesis or dissertation in architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC). It can address a single-volume thesis or a collection of published papers joined by an integrating chapter.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to choose and design a thesis structure, define the central argument, map chapters to research questions, strengthen individual chapters, and plan milestones for the research.
Why use it?
It helps keep the whole doctorate centred on one contribution and a consistent set of research questions. It also clarifies what each chapter must do and how separate papers fit together.

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 choose and design a thesis structure, define the central argument, map chapters to research questions, strengthen individual chapters, and plan milestones for the research.

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

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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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for thesis

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Per session 18 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 406 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 $0.00018 $0.00406
Opus 5.5 $0.00007 $0.00162
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00004 $0.00081
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00041

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 8257190d853e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

thesis 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 1mo 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/thesis.md · 34 lines

What it actually says

Help with the thesis/dissertation: $ARGUMENTS

Use the research-strategist and academic-writer agents and the thesis-dissertation skill (plus research-methods, academic-writing).

Determine what the user needs and respond accordingly:

  1. Format & architecture. If structuring: recommend monograph vs compilation ("stapled"/publication- based) — note this is institution-specific and tell them to confirm regulations. Then propose a chapter architecture. For a compilation, design the paper arc (e.g. review → framework/method → empirical validation → application) and the all-important synthesis ("kappa") chapter that makes the papers one contribution.

  2. The golden thread. Help articulate one central aim and a small set of RQs that every chapter maps to, plus a consistent contribution statement for intro/synthesis/conclusion.

  3. Per-chapter guidance. For the chapter the user is working on, apply its specific job (intro gap move; synthesis integration; methodology; results; discussion; conclusion).

  4. Planning. Offer a back-planned timeline with milestones and per-paper status tracking (hand to /aec-scholar:research-plan), building slack for AEC fieldwork/data-access delays.

  5. Coherence & integrity check. Flag drift in RQs/terminology, missing synthesis, over-claimed unified contribution, and authorship/copyright issues for republished papers (CRediT — see /aec-scholar:coauthor-credit).

Offer to proceed to viva preparation (/aec-scholar:viva) when the draft is mature.

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. 1mo ago First seen · 34 lines · 18 tokens per session scan A 8257190d853e

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thesis is a command published in the GitHub repository Abhinavbwj/AEC-Scholar (21 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 18 tokens to every session and 406 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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.