open-scholar-skill: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

open-scholar-skill CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from joshzyj/open-scholar-skill. It costs 3,825 tokens per session, scanned B, original, no licence file.

A project guide for an open scholar skill, describing how the project is organised and how its skill components are designed.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps with getting started, locating important files, and following the project's design patterns. Keep the description limited because the source provides no further detail.
Why use it?
It gives an agent the background needed to work consistently within this project instead of guessing its structure or conventions.

Instructions file for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: the file is CLAUDE.md.

This is joshzyj/open-scholar-skill's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on open-scholar-skill itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything open-scholar-skill configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to joshzyj/open-scholar-skill. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/joshzyj/open-scholar-skill/main/CLAUDE.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/joshzyj/open-scholar-skill

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 3,825 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 3,825 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan B 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin unknown 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 $0.03825 $0.03825
Opus 5.5 $0.01530 $0.01530
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00765 $0.00765
Haiku 4.5 $0.00382 $0.00382

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 4af43f8034fd, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

open-scholar-skill CLAUDE.md scanned grade B with 1 finding 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.

Reads agent configuration directoriesmediumAgent snooping

.claude/, .codex/, .gemini/ hold keys, settings and other credentials a mod has no legitimate need for.

Setup is **harness-specific**: `bash setup.sh --harness claude|codex|zcode|all` (default `auto` — every harness whose config dir exists, else claude). Claude Code gets skills + agents in `~/.claude/` and PreToolUse + Pos
CLAUDE.md · 175 lines

The source is not reproduced here

A licence we could not identify

The repository carries a LICENSE file, but it is custom or dual enough that GitHub cannot name it and neither can this catalogue. Unknown terms are not permission, so the body is not copied here. Read the licence at the source and decide for yourself.

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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. 1mo ago Changed · +2 lines · +212 tokens per session 4af43f8034fd
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 173 lines · 3,613 tokens per session scan B 370a94df1391

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open-scholar-skill CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository joshzyj/open-scholar-skill (182 stars, last pushed 10d ago), with no licence file. It adds 3,825 tokens to every session, about $0.0153 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (reads agent configuration directories). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.

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