Claude Scholar is a semi-automated research assistant for academic research and software development, supporting literature review, coding, experiments, reporting, writing, and project knowledge management. Computer science and AI researchers use it across the research workflow with several coding-agent platforms; the catalogue contains its skills, commands, agents, hooks, plugin, and instruction.
Getting it into your agent
This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.
/plugin marketplace add Galaxy-Dawn/claude-scholar/plugin install claude-scholarWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/commands/galaxy-dawn/claude-scholar/kb-init)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/commands/galaxy-dawn/claude-scholar/kb-init"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/commands/galaxy-dawn/claude-scholar/kb-init.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00029 | $0.00325 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00015 | $0.00162 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00006 | $0.00065 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00003 | $0.00032 |
Grade A, and why
kb-init scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 8d ago.
A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.
Nothing flagged
None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.
What it actually says
/kb-init
Use the new KB scaffold under Research/{project-slug}/.
Run
python3 "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/obsidian-project-kb-core/scripts/project_kb.py" bootstrap \
--cwd "$PWD" \
--vault-path "$vault_path"
If project is provided, add:
--project-name "$project"
If force=true, add:
--force
Verify
The scaffold must contain:
Research/{project-slug}/
00-Hub.md
01-Plan.md
02-Index.md
Sources/*
Knowledge/
Experiments/
Results/Reports/
Writing/
Daily/
Maps/
Archive/
_system/
It must also keep repo-local .claude/project-memory/* as runtime binding metadata only.
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.
- 8d ago First seen · 63 lines · 29 tokens per session scan A 715bb5d115df
kb-init is a command published in the GitHub repository Galaxy-Dawn/claude-scholar (5,349 stars, last pushed 11d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 29 tokens to every session and 325 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.
Other commands, from other repositories
init-life-os
A four-step interview that helps a new user initialise a LifeOS vault, a collection of personal notes and files. It creates Identity.md and Soul.md and replaces placeholders throughout the vault.
wiki-query
Ask questions against the wiki. Synthesizes answers from wiki pages with cross-reference citations.
wiki-digest
Generate a daily or weekly digest of wiki changes — new sources, pages, insights, and gaps.
brief-compliance-check
Check a LaTeX coursework submission against the requirements in a supplied PDF assessment brief. Use when verifying format, required sections, word limits, or deliverables before submission. Not for general prose proofreading; use $proofread.
prompts
Work with MCP prompt templates for memory operations.
mneme-context
Retrieve relevant decisions from project memory for the current task.