What is alterlab-core?

A research-to-publication toolkit with helpers for literature research, citations, paper writing, peer review, teaching design, and thesis supervision. It is aimed at academic work from planning research through producing and checking papers.

Use it to research topics, verify citations and links, write or review papers, plan research projects, design teaching, supervise theses, and coordinate academic workflows.

It organises many parts of an academic workflow that are often handled with disconnected notes, documents, and manual checks.

alterlab-core — Plugin for Claude Code by AlterLab-IEU

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AlterLab-IEU/AlterLab-Academic-Skills

Made for: Claude Code.

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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.

README.md

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Your own site

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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.

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Per session not measured What this adds to a session before it is invoked.

When invoked not measured The manifest loads nothing itself; its 10 skills, 4 commands, 34 agents cost 3,862 tokens a session between them.

Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.

Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.

Security

Grade A, and why

alterlab-core 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 26d 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.

.claude-plugin/marketplace.json#alterlab-core · 105 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 105 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

{
  "name": "alterlab-core",
  "source": "./skills/core",
  "description": "Core research-to-publication pipeline plus teaching and thesis tools (10 skills)",
  "version": "3.0.1",
  "author": {
    "name": "AlterLab @ Izmir University of Economics",
    "url": "https://github.com/AlterLab-IEU"
  },
  "homepage": "https://github.com/AlterLab-IEU/AlterLab-Academic-Skills",
  "license": "MIT AND CC-BY-NC-4.0",
  "category": "research",
  "keywords": [
    "research",
    "writing",
    "peer-review",
    "pipeline",
    "academic"
  ],
  "strict": false,
  "skills": [
    "./alterlab-citation-verifier",
    "./alterlab-deep-research",
    "./alterlab-link-health",
    "./alterlab-paper-reviewer",
    "./alterlab-paper-writer",
    "./alterlab-research-pipeline",
    "./alterlab-skill-finder",
    "./alterlab-teaching-design",
    "./alterlab-thesis-supervisor",
    "./alterlab-workflow-orchestration"
  ],
  "commands": [
    "./alterlab-citation-verifier/commands",
    "./alterlab-deep-research/commands",
    "./alterlab-paper-reviewer/commands",
    "./alterlab-research-pipeline/commands"
  ],
  "agents": [
    "./alterlab-deep-research/agents/bibliography_agent.md",
    "./alterlab-deep-research/agents/devils_advocate_agent.md",
    "./alterlab-deep-research/agents/editor_in_chief_agent.md",
    "./alterlab-deep-research/agents/ethics_review_agent.md",
    "./alterlab-deep-research/agents/meta_analysis_agent.md",
    "./alterlab-deep-research/agents/monitoring_agent.md",
    "./alterlab-deep-research/agents/report_compiler_agent.md",
    "./alterlab-deep-research/agents/research_architect_agent.md",
    "./alterlab-deep-research/agents/research_question_agent.md",
    "./alterlab-deep-research/agents/risk_of_bias_agent.md",
    "./alterlab-deep-research/agents/socratic_mentor_agent.md",
    "./alterlab-deep-research/agents/source_verification_agent.md",
    "./alterlab-deep-research/agents/synthesis_agent.md",
    "./alterlab-paper-reviewer/agents/devils_advocate_re

Read the full file on GitHub · 105 lines

Contents

What it installs

The manifest is a name and a version. 10 skills, 4 commands, 34 agents travel with it, and installing the plugin installs all of them — 3,862 tokens a session between them. Each is measured on its own page, and each can be installed alone.

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside marketplace.json#alterlab-core in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

marketplace.json 27 KB

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.

26d ago Changed · +58 lines 8a1dcd700bf6
1mo ago First seen · 47 lines scan A 5b91991538e8

Subscribe to this mod's changes

alterlab-core is a plugin published in the GitHub repository AlterLab-IEU/AlterLab-Academic-Skills (76 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. Its token cost is not measured: this kind of file is read by the harness, not the model. 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 2026-09-03.

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alterlab-core

Getting it into your agent

Wrote this? Show the measurements

Grade A, and why

Nothing flagged

How it starts

What it installs

What ships with it

What this file has done since we first saw it

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