sci-brain

sci-brain is a plugin for Claude Code from QuantumBFS/sci-brain. Its manifest loads nothing; the 17 skills it bundles cost 575 tokens per session together, scanned A, original, MIT.

A research brainstorming partner for scientific work. It helps survey published literature, identify possible research problems, and shape research ideas.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to explore a research topic, review relevant literature, find open problems, or develop concrete ideas for experiments or papers.
Why use it?
It helps turn a broad scientific interest into questions grounded in existing papers. It can also reduce the time spent finding related work before choosing a direction.

Plugin for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: a Claude Code plugin manifest.

Good fit Use it to explore a research topic, review relevant literature, find open problems, or develop concrete ideas for experiments or papers.

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Install in Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add QuantumBFS/sci-brain
/plugin install sci-brain
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/QuantumBFS/sci-brain

Made for: Claude Code.

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README.md
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Your own site
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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 17 skills cost 575 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

sci-brain 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 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.

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/plugin.json · 13 lines

What it actually says

{
  "name": "sci-brain",
  "description": "Scientific research brainstorming partner: survey the literature, find good problems, and shape concrete research ideas together",
  "version": "0.5.0",
  "author": {
    "name": "Jin-Guo Liu"
  },
  "homepage": "https://github.com/QuantumBFS/sci-brain",
  "repository": "https://github.com/QuantumBFS/sci-brain",
  "license": "MIT",
  "keywords": ["science", "research", "ideation", "literature-review", "skills"]
}
Files

What ships with it

1 file beside plugin.json 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.

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 f17e8e49536e
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 13 lines scan A 0aa41993c373

Subscribe to this mod's changes

sci-brain is a plugin published in the GitHub repository QuantumBFS/sci-brain (101 stars, last pushed 23d 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 2026-08-30.

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