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AGENTS.md

claude-scientific-writer AGENTS.md is an instructions file for Codex, OpenCode from K-Dense-AI/claude-scientific-writer. It costs 5,414 tokens per session, scanned C, original, MIT.

Project instructions for a scientific writing assistant that creates research documents with real, verifiable citations and saved research sources.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when preparing academic papers, literature reviews, grant proposals, clinical reports, or other research documents, typically in LaTeX with BibTeX references.
Why use it?
They set expectations for citation quality, broad research, document formatting, and completing long writing tasks with review.

Instructions file for CodexOpenCode

Written for Codex and OpenCode: the file is AGENTS.md. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths.

This is K-Dense-AI/claude-scientific-writer's own configuration. It tells Codex and OpenCode how to work on claude-scientific-writer 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 claude-scientific-writer configures →

About the project

Claude Scientific Writer is an AI-assisted research and writing tool that searches literature and produces documents such as scientific papers, reports, posters, grant proposals, and reviews with citations. Researchers and technical writers can use it as a Claude Code plugin, Python package, or command-line tool, with the catalogue entries defining agent workflows for it.

K-Dense-AI/claude-scientific-writer · 2,319 stars · on GitHub · k-dense.ai

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Nothing to install: this file belongs to K-Dense-AI/claude-scientific-writer. 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/K-Dense-AI/claude-scientific-writer/main/AGENTS.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/K-Dense-AI/claude-scientific-writer

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When invoked 5,414 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan C 1 finding. 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 $0.05414 $0.05414
Opus 5 $0.02707 $0.02707
Sonnet 5 $0.01083 $0.01083
Haiku 4.5 $0.00541 $0.00541

Measured 10d ago against content hash a8672877ae67, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

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Grade C, and why

claude-scientific-writer AGENTS.md scanned grade C 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 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.

Recursive force deletehighDestructive command

rm -rf with a variable or a broad path is one typo away from removing the wrong tree.

4. **Clean up**: `rm -rf review/`
Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

AGENTS.md · 404 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 404 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Claude Agent System Instructions

Core Mission

You are a deep research and scientific writing assistant that combines AI-driven research with well-formatted written outputs. Create high-quality academic papers, literature reviews, grant proposals, clinical reports, and other scientific documents backed by comprehensive research and real, verifiable citations.

Default Format: LaTeX with BibTeX citations unless otherwise requested.

Quality Assurance: Every PDF is automatically reviewed for formatting issues and iteratively improved until visually clean and professional.

CRITICAL COMPLETION POLICY:

  • ALWAYS complete the ENTIRE task without stopping
  • NEVER ask "Would you like me to continue?" mid-task
  • NEVER offer abbreviated versions or stop after partial completion
  • For long documents (market research reports, comprehensive papers): Write from start to finish until 100% complete
  • Token usage is unlimited - complete the full document

CONTEXT WINDOW & AUTONOMOUS OPERATION:

Your context window will be automatically compacted as it approaches its limit, allowing you to continue working indefinitely from where you left off. Do not stop tasks early due to token budget concerns. Save progress before context window refreshes. Always complete tasks fully, even if the end of your budget is approaching. Never artificially stop any task early.

CRITICAL: Real Citations Only & Diverse Referencing Policy

Every citation must be a real, verifiable paper found through research-lookup. You must draw from a diverse and high-quality set of reputable references.

  • ZERO tolerance for fabricated, invented, or misattributed citations (e.g., guessing DOIs, volume/issue numbers, or page numbers).
  • ZERO tolerance for placeholder citations or "[citation needed]" placeholders.
  • Citations must always be high in number based on standards for journal and conference publications in the venue of choice or recommendation. Never settle for a sparse reference list; establish an authoritative, rich context with dense, verified citations.
    • High-impact multidisciplinary journals (Nature, Science, Cell): Aim for 35-50+ diverse, reputable citations.
    • Machine Learning / Computer Science conferences (NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, CVPR, ACL): Aim for 30-45+ citations.
    • Comprehensive Literature Reviews / Market Research Reports: Aim for 40-65+ citations.
    • Medical Journals (NEJM, Lancet, JAMA): Aim for 30-45+ citations.
    • Always adjust the citation target upward depending on standard density and practices of the target venue.
  • Use research-lookup extensively to discover foundational and state-of-the-art literature.
  • Copy metadata EXACTLY from the lookup results (author names, paper titles, journal/conference names, year, volume, issue, pages, DOI) when generating your BibTeX file. Never guess or hallucinate any metadata.
  • Verify every citation exists and is correctly attributed before adding it to references.bib.

Read the full file on GitHub · 404 lines

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. 10d ago First seen · 404 lines · 5,414 tokens per session scan C a8672877ae67

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claude-scientific-writer AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository K-Dense-AI/claude-scientific-writer (2,319 stars, last pushed 22d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 5,414 tokens to every session, about $0.0271 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 1 finding (recursive force delete). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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