thesis-set-research-question

thesis-set-research-question is a command for Claude Code from idoforgod/Dissertation-Simulator-AgenticWorkflow. It costs 16 tokens per session (175 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A research-question setup command that stores the chosen thesis question and configures the depth of the literature review and preferred theory approach.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps select or enter a research question, choose a standard, comprehensive, or systematic review, and decide whether to use or develop a theory.
Why use it?
It turns an initial topic into a defined direction for the rest of the thesis workflow.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths.

Needs its repository: it runs a file that does not travel with it, so clone the repository first. The line is python3 .claude/hooks/scripts/checklist_manager.py \.

Good fit It helps select or enter a research question, choose a standard, comprehensive, or systematic review, and decide whether to use or develop a theory.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/idoforgod/Dissertation-Simulator-AgenticWorkflow
agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/idoforgod/dissertation-simulator-agenticworkflow/thesis-set-research-question

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 16 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 175 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 $0.00016 $0.00175
Opus 5.5 $0.00006 $0.00070
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00003 $0.00035
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00017

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 6493751172d9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

thesis-set-research-question 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.

.claude/commands/thesis-set-research-question.md · 24 lines

What it actually says

Set Research Question

Configure the research question, literature review depth, and theoretical framework preferences.

Protocol

  1. Display current research question candidates (from topic analysis)
  2. User selects or inputs research question
  3. Configure options:
    • Literature review depth: Standard (50 papers) / Comprehensive (100+) / Systematic
    • Theoretical framework: Existing theory / New framework development
  4. Update SOT with selected research question and options
  5. Record HITL-1 completion
  6. Save checkpoint for HITL-1:
    python3 .claude/hooks/scripts/checklist_manager.py \
      --save-checkpoint --checkpoint hitl-1-research-question \
      --project-dir thesis-output/{project}
    
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 · 24 lines · 16 tokens per session scan A 6493751172d9

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thesis-set-research-question is a command published in the GitHub repository idoforgod/Dissertation-Simulator-AgenticWorkflow (108 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 16 tokens to every session and 175 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 2026-09-03.