Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to chemaoxfz/idea-to-essay. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/chemaoxfz/idea-to-essay/main/AGENTS.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/chemaoxfz/idea-to-essayWrote 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/instructions/chemaoxfz/idea-to-essay/agents-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/chemaoxfz/idea-to-essay/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/chemaoxfz/idea-to-essay/agents-md/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/chemaoxfz/idea-to-essay/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/chemaoxfz/idea-to-essay/agents-md.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" 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 | $0.00479 | $0.00479 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00239 | $0.00239 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00096 | $0.00096 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00048 | $0.00048 |
Grade A, and why
idea-to-essay AGENTS.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 today.
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 — 36 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
AGENTS.md
This repository is one Agent Skill, research-essay, packaged in the
Agent Skills format.
If your agent supports skills, install it and invoke it by name. See the README.
If it does not, read skills/research-essay/SKILL.md and follow it. That file is the entry point.
It names the reference files under skills/research-essay/references/ to read as each phase needs them,
and the scripts under skills/research-essay/scripts/ to run. Load the reference files on demand rather
than all at once. SKILL.md is the workflow entry point, not a duplicate of the reference guides.
What it does
Given a research idea, it follows a staged workflow: digest the idea into a falsifiable thesis and a chain of argument, sweep the literature and download verified full texts, produce numbers and figures from code, outline, then write one standalone HTML essay that teaches the idea in conversation with that literature. Historical and comparative essays adapt the analysis to their question. Revisions resume at the affected stage and preserve the existing project.
If you are editing this repository
The skill itself is skills/research-essay/. Its layout is fixed by the Agent Skills specification:
SKILL.md at the root of the skill folder, with references/, assets/ and scripts/ beside it.
SKILL.mdstays under 500 lines. Detail belongs inreferences/.- The frontmatter
namemust keep matching the folder name. - Keep the skill metadata version and both Claude plugin manifest versions aligned.
- Never commit
references/*.local.md, private project paths, or research full-text archives. - House conventions live in
references/conventions.md, and nothing else should restate them. - The prose rules in that file apply to this repository too. Short sentences, no em dashes, few semicolons.
- After changing anything under
skills/, runclaude plugin validate skills --strictif you have the Claude Code CLI, andpython3 -m py_compile skills/research-essay/scripts/*.py. - After changing plugin metadata, also run
claude plugin validate . --strict.
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.
- today Changed · +5 lines · +84 tokens per session cbc67056af46
- 9d ago First seen · 31 lines · 395 tokens per session scan A 590a85174f04
idea-to-essay AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository chemaoxfz/idea-to-essay (5 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 479 tokens to every session, about $0.0024 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 2026-08-31.
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