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.
npx agentmods add instructions/alterlab-ieu/alterlab-academic-skills/claude-mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AlterLab-IEU/AlterLab-Academic-SkillsWhat 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 | $0.01908 | $0.01908 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00954 | $0.00954 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00382 | $0.00382 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00191 | $0.00191 |
Grade A, and why
AlterLab-Academic-Skills CLAUDE.md 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 yesterday.
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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 137 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
AlterLab Academic Skills — by AlterLab Creative Technologies Laboratory
Project: AlterLab Academic Skills — 239 Claude AI skills for faculty and researchers Owner: AlterLab Creative Technologies Laboratory
Project Overview
This project provides 239 professional Claude AI skills organized into 17 domain categories for faculty members, academicians, and researchers. Each skill transforms Claude into a domain-specific expert assistant tailored to academic research, scientific computing, and scholarly publishing workflows.
The repo is installable as a Claude Code plugin marketplace named alterlab-academic-skills, with 17 domain plugins (alterlab-core, alterlab-databases, alterlab-bioinformatics, alterlab-cheminformatics, alterlab-clinical-research, alterlab-data-science, alterlab-visualization, alterlab-writing-tools, alterlab-lab-integrations, alterlab-domain-specific, alterlab-document-tools, alterlab-research-tools, alterlab-finance-economics, alterlab-turkish-academia, alterlab-faculty-life, alterlab-methodology, alterlab-social-science-workflow).
Audience
- Faculty members and academic researchers
- NOT students (see AlterLab FC for student skills)
Naming Convention
- Folder:
alterlab-{name}(lowercase, hyphenated) - Frontmatter name:
"alterlab-{name}" - Suite label:
Part of the AlterLab Academic Skills suite.
Skill Categories
| Category | Path | Count | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Core Pipeline | skills/core/ |
10 | Research -> Write -> Review -> Publish pipeline + citation-verifier + link-health + workflow-orchestration + skill-finder router |
| Databases | skills/databases/ |
39 | Scientific database connectors |
| Bioinformatics | skills/bioinformatics/ |
38 | Genomics, proteomics, molecular biology |
| Cheminformatics | skills/cheminformatics/ |
12 | Chemistry, drug discovery |
| Clinical Research | skills/clinical-research/ |
7 | Clinical decision support, medical tools |
| Data Science | skills/data-science/ |
22 | ML, statistics, data analysis |
| Visualization | skills/visualization/ |
9 | Scientific plotting and graphics |
| Writing Tools | skills/writing-tools/ |
13 | Scientific writing, citations, posters |
| Lab Integrations | skills/lab-integrations/ |
9 | Laboratory platform connectors |
| Domain-Specific | skills/domain-specific/ |
18 | Quantum, geospatial, materials science |
| Document Tools | skills/document-tools/ |
3 | Markdown conversion, notebook handling |
| Research Tools | skills/research-tools/ |
14 | Search, discovery, reference management |
| Finance & Economics | skills/finance-economics/ |
7 | Financial data and analysis |
| Turkish Academia | skills/turkish-academia/ |
12 | Turkish academic system workflows (YÖK, ÜAK, DergiPark, TÜBİTAK) |
| Faculty Life | skills/faculty-life/ |
6 | Faculty research-lifecycle and academic administration |
| Methodology | skills/methodology/ |
3 | Research methodology and rigor scaffolds |
| Social-Science Workflow | skills/social-science-workflow/ |
17 | Stage-gated methods spine: orchestrator + 5 validity gates (design, measurement, sampling, reflexivity, inference) + 11 analysis modules (causal-inference, SEM/psychometrics, QCA, SNA, ABM, text-as-data, survey-analysis, qualitative-analysis, multilevel-models, meta-analysis, missing-data) |
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.
- yesterday First seen · 137 lines · 1,908 tokens per session scan A c648cff9d50d
AlterLab-Academic-Skills CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository AlterLab-IEU/AlterLab-Academic-Skills (62 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 1,908 tokens to every session, about $0.0095 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.
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