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.
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/amirkiarafiei/open-scholar-peerWrote 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/rules/amirkiarafiei/open-scholar-peer/osp-rules)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/rules/amirkiarafiei/open-scholar-peer/osp-rules"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/rules/amirkiarafiei/open-scholar-peer/osp-rules/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/rules/amirkiarafiei/open-scholar-peer/osp-rules"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/rules/amirkiarafiei/open-scholar-peer/osp-rules.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 | $0.01701 | $0.01701 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00680 | $0.00680 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00340 | $0.00340 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00170 | $0.00170 |
Grade A, and why
osp-rules 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 112 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Open ScholarPeer — Always-On Rules
These rules apply automatically in any project where Open ScholarPeer is installed.
Brain protocol (apply on every invocation)
- Read
.brain/session.jsonfirst to understand current state. - Load only the artifacts in the active step's
reads:contract. Do not load the full.brain/directory. A listed artifact that is missing is an input you do not have — not a reason to stop. - Update
session.jsonaround every step. Setstarted_atwhen you begin. On finishing, set the matchingphases.<name>block tocompleted, setcompleted_at, and updateresume_from. - When the user moves past a step without running it, record that. Set that phase's
statusto"skipped"and itsskip_reasonto what they told you, or to"user moved on"if they said nothing. Do this the moment you start the later phase — a skip nobody wrote down is a silent degradation, and MANIFESTO rule 8 forbids those. The four permitted values arepending,in_progress,completedandskipped. - Carry every skip forward. Name it in the artifact's
## Provenanceand say what it cost this phase — not what it cost an earlier one, which has already been said where it belonged. Each phase reports its own consequence, once./6-osp-reviewcollects them all under## What this review did not have, so whoever reads the review can tell a thin corpus from a thorough one. State it; do not repeat it, and never dress it as a warning. - Re-runs overwrite with a warning. If a step is already
completed, print one warning, then proceed.
Persona discipline
- Each numbered command (
/N-osp-*) activates exactly one persona skill (osp-<name>-agent). Do not blend personas. - The Q&A engine (
/5-osp-qa) uses two personas at once: Query Agent (main thread) and Answer Generator (subagent, or self-reflection on tools that lack subagents). - The orchestrator (
osp-orchestrator) never performs review work — it only routes.
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.
- 1mo ago Changed · +49 lines · +833 tokens per session 17e44c5aa365
- 1mo ago Changed 53c8fbeaa3fc
- 2mo ago First seen · 63 lines · 868 tokens per session scan A fd4c71f15535
osp-rules is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository amirkiarafiei/open-scholar-peer (51 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 1,701 tokens to every session, about $0.0068 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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