Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to neuromechanist/research-skills. 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/neuromechanist/research-skills/main/AGENTS.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/neuromechanist/research-skillsWrote 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/neuromechanist/research-skills/agents-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/neuromechanist/research-skills/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/neuromechanist/research-skills/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/neuromechanist/research-skills/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/neuromechanist/research-skills/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 | $0.03565 | $0.03565 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.01426 | $0.01426 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00713 | $0.00713 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00357 | $0.00357 |
Grade A, and why
research-skills 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 2d 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 — 120 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Research Skills Marketplace
Purpose
Cross-agent marketplace providing plugins and skills for academic research workflows and development tooling: literature search and review, grant writing and review, manuscript preparation, figures, presentations, project lifecycle management, neuroinformatics, and cloud GPU provisioning for model training.
Skills-first model
This marketplace follows a skills-first surface. Skills auto-trigger from natural-language intent (description matching). Commands are kept only for workflows that need explicit /command args orchestration: project init, epic/sprint management, version bumps. Thin command wrappers around skills have been removed; do not reintroduce them.
Marketplace Structure
research-skills/
├── .claude-plugin/marketplace.json # Claude Code marketplace manifest; legacy-compatible for Codex/Copilot
├── .agents/plugins/marketplace.json # Native Codex repo marketplace manifest
├── .github/plugin/marketplace.json # Native Copilot CLI marketplace manifest
├── plugins/
│ ├── project/ # Project lifecycle toolkit
│ │ ├── .claude-plugin/plugin.json
│ │ ├── .codex-plugin/plugin.json
│ │ ├── .github/plugin/plugin.json
│ │ ├── commands/{init-project,update-rules,epic-dev,epic-status,release-prep}.md
│ │ ├── skills/{init-project,project-preflight,update-rules,install-user-instructions,workflow-reference,epic-dev,pr-review-toolkit,codebase-onboarding,implementation-planning,engineering-loop,debugging,agent-fanout,ci-scaffolding,docker-packaging,security-audit,document-processing}/
│ │ ├── agents/{dependency-auditor,release-prep,pr-review-toolkit}.md
│ │ ├── agents/templates/pr-review-toolkit.{toml,agent.md}
│ │ ├── templates/ # AGENTS, Claude, Cursor, context, config, CI/CD
│ │ └── bin/ # project-preflight, project-init-templates, project-diff-rules, project-templates-path
│ ├── grant/ # Grant proposal toolkit
│ │ ├── .claude-plugin/plugin.json
│ │ ├── .codex-plugin/plugin.json
│ │ ├── .github/plugin/plugin.json
│ │ ├── skills/{grant-writing,grant-review,grant-figure-qa}/
│ │ ├── agents/{grant-figure-qa,grant-review}.md
│ │ └── agents/templates/{grant-review,grant-figure-qa}.{toml,agent.md}
│ ├── manuscript/ # Academic manuscript toolkit
│ │ ├── .claude-plugin/plugin.json
│ │ ├── .codex-plugin/plugin.json
│ │ ├── .github/plugin/plugin.json
│ │ ├── skills/{paper-review,manuscript-writing,manuscript-formatting,lit-review,humanizer}/
│ │ ├── agents/paper-review.md
│ │ └── agents/templates/paper-review.{toml,agent.md}
│ ├── opencite/ # Literature search and citation management
│ │ ├── .claude-plugin/plugin.json
│ │ ├── .codex-plugin/plugin.json
│ │ ├── .github/plugin/plugin.json
│ │ └── skills/opencite/
│ ├── figures/ # Publication-quality figures (v0.13.0)
│ │ ├── .claude-plugin/plugin.json
│ │ ├── .codex-plugin/plugin.json
│ │ ├── .github/plugin/plugin.json
│ │ ├── skills/{figure-bible,scientific-figure,transparent-icons,svg-figure,svg-primitives,ai-full-figure,plot-styling,figure-qa}/
│ │ ├── lib/{image_backend,prompting,theme}.py + schemas/theme.schema.json + tests/
│ │ ├── agents/figure-qa.md + figure-qa-scripts/{check_svg,check_raster,check_plot_script}.py
│ │ └── agents/templates/figure-qa.{toml,agent.md}
│ ├── presentation/ # Interactive slide decks
│ │ ├── .claude-plugin/plugin.json
│ │ ├── .codex-plugin/plugin.json
│ │ ├── .github/plugin/plugin.json
│ │ └── skills/presentation-builder/
│ ├── neuroinformatics/ # Neuro data standards + experiments
│ │ ├── .claude-plugin/plugin.json
│ │ ├── .codex-plugin/plugin.json
│ │ ├── .github/plugin/plugin.json
│ │ ├── skills/{bids-conversion,experiment-design}/
│ │ └── agents/bids-validator.md + agents/templates/bids-validator.{toml,agent.md}
│ └── ml-training/ # Cloud GPU provisioning for training/benchmarks
│ ├── .claude-plugin/plugin.json
│ ├── .codex-plugin/plugin.json
│ ├── .github/plugin/plugin.json
│ └── skills/runpod/ + references/ + templates/
├── .context/
└── plan.md
└── .memory/
├── README.md
└── INDEX.md
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.
- 2d ago Changed · +17 tokens per session b509a5e472eb
- 10d ago Changed · +12 tokens per session 920a7e6efa53
- 12d ago Changed · +119 tokens per session 98fe8cce845a
- 13d ago Changed · +15 tokens per session 56aa1d9ba484
- 1mo ago Changed · +14 lines · +211 tokens per session 8d98be671ad8
- 1mo ago Changed · +1 lines · -73 tokens per session 5d41fdc97c93
- 1mo ago First seen · 105 lines · 3,264 tokens per session scan A fe3204255c51
research-skills AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository neuromechanist/research-skills (50 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed BSD-3-Clause. It adds 3,565 tokens to every session, about $0.0143 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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vscode buildNext.instructions.md
Working notes and architecture documentation for the new esbuild-based build system in build/next. Use when making changes to the new build pipeline (transpile/bundle commands, NLS plugin, source-map handling, resource copying, or self-hosting watch tasks).
next.js AGENTS.md
AGENTS.md instructions for vercel/next.js, covering next.js development guide, codebase structure, monorepo overview, core package: packages/next and other important packages.
vscode oss-third-party-notices.instructions.md
Instructions for microsoft/vscode, covering vs code oss third-party-notices pipeline, architecture, pipeline flow in ci, cache eligibility and rollout and applying the notice (cutover).
langchain AGENTS.md
AGENTS.md instructions for langchain-ai/langchain, covering global development guidelines for the langchain monorepo, corridor security analysis, project architecture and context, monorepo structure and development tools & commands.
vscode copilot-instructions.md
Copilot instructions for microsoft/vscode, covering vs code copilot instructions, project overview, root folders, core architecture (src/ folder) and built-in extensions (extensions/ folder).
deno copilot-instructions.md
Copilot instructions for denoland/deno, covering deno development guide for github copilot, network access, high level overview, key directories and key files to understand first.