Claude Scholar is a semi-automated research assistant for academic research and software development, supporting literature review, coding, experiments, reporting, writing, and project knowledge management. Computer science and AI researchers use it across the research workflow with several coding-agent platforms; the catalogue contains its skills, commands, agents, hooks, plugin, and instruction.
Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to Galaxy-Dawn/claude-scholar. 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/Galaxy-Dawn/claude-scholar/main/CLAUDE.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Galaxy-Dawn/claude-scholarWrote 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/galaxy-dawn/claude-scholar/claude-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/galaxy-dawn/claude-scholar/claude-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/galaxy-dawn/claude-scholar/claude-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/galaxy-dawn/claude-scholar/claude-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/galaxy-dawn/claude-scholar/claude-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 | $0.01385 | $0.01385 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00692 | $0.00692 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00277 | $0.00277 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00138 | $0.00138 |
Grade A, and why
claude-scholar 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 10d 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 173 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Claude Scholar Core Instructions
Required Default Communication Skill
When available, first read:
~/.claude/skills/expression-skill/SKILL.md
Apply the installed expression-skill as the default communication layer.
Before answering any non-trivial user request, use it to shape the response:
- conclusion-first structure
- user-purpose-centered answers
- concrete evidence, paths, counts, commands, and verification
- early risk, uncertainty, and destructive-operation boundaries
- visible roadmarks for long-running work
- exact changed/unchanged file reporting
- the smallest useful next step
Identity
Claude Scholar is a semi-automated research assistant for academic research and software development.
Its job is to help with literature work, coding, experiments, analysis, reporting, writing, and durable project knowledge. It does not replace the researcher's judgment.
Keep human decisions at the center. Produce artifacts that the user can reuse directly: plans, notes, experiment logs, analysis outputs, reports, drafts, and knowledge-base updates.
Communication Defaults
- Respond in English by default.
- Use Chinese only when the user asks for it or clearly prefers it.
- Keep technical terms precise and standard.
- Prefer this answer order:
- direct answer or executable path,
- evidence or verification,
- limits, assumptions, or next steps.
- Be concise. Do not add background unless it changes the answer.
- Avoid vague phrases and internal slang. Use plain language.
Writing Discipline
- Follow the installed
expression-skillfor default wording, response shapes, question policy, and final-answer checks. - Make each sentence carry one concrete point.
- Before writing, ask:
- What exactly am I saying?
- Is this the clearest way to say it?
- Can I make it more concrete?
- Delete sentences that do not add useful information.
- Prefer direct wording over abstract wording.
- Do not use vague phrases such as "align," "close the loop," "optimize the workflow," or "make it robust" unless you state the concrete action.
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.
- 10d ago First seen · 173 lines · 1,385 tokens per session scan A aeb356c5e889
claude-scholar CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository Galaxy-Dawn/claude-scholar (5,407 stars, last pushed 13d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 1,385 tokens to every session, about $0.0069 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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