thesis-start

thesis-start is a command for Claude Code from idoforgod/Dissertation-Simulator-AgenticWorkflow. It costs 22 tokens per session (726 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command that starts or continues a structured doctoral-thesis research workflow by reading its saved progress and choosing the next step.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for progressing through topic exploration, literature review, research design, thesis writing, and publication planning.
Why use it?
It helps resume complex thesis work without manually tracking which research phase or checkpoint comes next.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: $CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR variable.

Good fit It is for progressing through topic exploration, literature review, research design, thesis writing, and publication planning.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/idoforgod/dissertation-simulator-agenticworkflow/thesis-start
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/idoforgod/Dissertation-Simulator-AgenticWorkflow

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 22 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 726 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 $0.00022 $0.00726
Opus 5.5 $0.00009 $0.00290
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00004 $0.00145
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00073

Measured 1mo ago against content hash b5e9384c1b0d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

thesis-start 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-start.md · 85 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 85 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Thesis Start / Continue

Resume or start the thesis workflow execution.

Protocol

Step 1: Read Current State

python3 "$CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR"/.claude/hooks/scripts/checklist_manager.py \
  --status \
  --project-dir "$CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR/thesis-output/{project}"

If no project exists, redirect to /thesis:init.

Step 2: Determine Next Action

Based on current_step and input_mode in SOT:

Current Position Action
Step 0 (fresh) Begin Phase 0 initialization
Phase 0-A steps Topic exploration with @topic-explorer
Phase 0-D steps Learning mode with Agent Team
HITL-1 Present research question candidates for user approval
Wave 1-5 steps Literature review with Agent Teams
Gate steps Run cross-validation gate
HITL-2+ Present results for user review
Phase 2 steps Research design with Agent Team
Phase 3 steps Thesis writing with Agent Team
Phase 4 steps Publication strategy

Step 3: Get Invocation Plan

Query the P1-computed invocation plan to determine remaining orchestrator invocations:

python3 "$CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR"/.claude/hooks/scripts/query_step.py \
  --invocation-plan --step {current_step} --project-dir "$CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR/thesis-output/{project}"

Where {current_step} is the value obtained from Step 1's SOT status.

This returns a list of invocation blocks (17 total), each with start, end, label, and status (pending/in_progress/completed). Use this to determine which invocations remain.

Step 4: Execute via Orchestrator Loop

For each pending or in_progress invocation block from the plan, invoke the thesis-orchestrator:

Agent: subagent_type="thesis-orchestrator", prompt="
  Project directory: thesis-output/{project}
  Current step: {current_step} (from SOT)
  Invocation: {invocation_number}/{total_invocations} — {label}
  Step range: {start}-{end}
  Execution mode: {execution_mode}
  Research topic: {research_question}

  Execute steps {start} through {end} following your Execution Protocol.
  Use step consolidation where query_step.py indicates (consolidate_with > 1 step).
  Report back: completed steps, outputs created, any gate results.
"

Read the full file on GitHub · 85 lines

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 · 85 lines · 22 tokens per session scan A b5e9384c1b0d

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thesis-start is a command published in the GitHub repository idoforgod/Dissertation-Simulator-AgenticWorkflow (108 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 22 tokens to every session and 726 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.