triage-project

triage-project is a command for Claude Code from TobiasBlask/open-paper-machine. It costs 62 tokens per session (413 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A decision aid for evaluating whether to continue, change direction, or stop a research project. It examines results, competition, likely impact, remaining effort, and personal motivation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to decide whether to continue, find a specific new framing, or salvage useful outputs such as a workshop paper, blog post, or dataset release.
Why use it?
It provides a clear recommendation when a project is uncertain or stalled, while separating future value from work already spent—the sunk cost fallacy.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Part of the open-academic-paper-machine plugin — 33 skills, 21 commands, 4 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to decide whether to continue, find a specific new framing, or salvage useful outputs such as a workshop paper, blog post, or dataset release.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/tobiasblask/open-paper-machine/triage-project
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/TobiasBlask/open-paper-machine

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install open-academic-paper-machine, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 33 skills, 21 commands, 4 agents.

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README.md
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Per session 62 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 413 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 $0.00062 $0.00413
Opus 5 $0.00031 $0.00206
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00083
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00041

Measured 8d ago against content hash f4de057abd67, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

triage-project 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.

commands/triage-project.md · 43 lines

What it actually says

/triage-project — Should You Continue This Project?

Read agents/research-strategist.md and execute Mode 1: Project Triage.

The user describes their current research project and its state. Evaluate using 5 signals:

Signal Continue Pivot Kill
Results Core hypothesis validated Interesting side results Core assumption disproven
Competition Still ahead or unique angle Others approaching differently Scooped on main contribution
Impact Conclusion-first test passes Original framing weak, results support different framing Can't write compelling conclusion
Effort remaining Manageable, clear path Moderate, toward a different goal Large, success still uncertain
Motivation Engaged, believes in the work Curious about pivot direction Dreading the work

Deliver a clear Continue / Pivot / Kill verdict with reasoning.

  • For Pivot: suggest a concrete new framing — not just "consider pivoting."
  • For Kill: suggest what to salvage (workshop paper, blog post, dataset release).

Always flag the sunk cost fallacy explicitly. Respect the work done, then recommend based on forward-looking expected value only.

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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. 8d ago First seen · 43 lines · 62 tokens per session scan A f4de057abd67

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triage-project is a command published in the GitHub repository TobiasBlask/open-paper-machine (18 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 62 tokens to every session and 413 once invoked, about $0.0003 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.