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.
npx skills add a2ngerer/claude_onboarding_agent --skill academic-writing-setupgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/a2ngerer/claude_onboarding_agentWrote 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/skills/a2ngerer/claude_onboarding_agent/academic-writing-setup)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/a2ngerer/claude_onboarding_agent/academic-writing-setup"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/a2ngerer/claude_onboarding_agent/academic-writing-setup/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/skills/a2ngerer/claude_onboarding_agent/academic-writing-setup"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/a2ngerer/claude_onboarding_agent/academic-writing-setup.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- NVIDIA SkillSpector warn
SkillSpector: 3 findings, up to high
These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →
- high Prompt Injection · line 25 Hidden instructions were detected in comments or invisible text. These could contain malicious directives. Manual review is recommended.Fix: Audit all comments and invisible characters. Remove any instructions that direct the agent to perform unauthorized actions. Use plain, reviewable content.
- high Agent Snooping · line 174 Skill reads from agent configuration directories (.claude/, .codex/, .gemini/). These directories may contain API keys, personal settings, and other credentials that the skill has no legitimate need to access.Fix: Remove all code or instructions that access agent configuration directories (.claude/, .codex/, .gemini/). If configuration values are needed, pass them explicitly as parameters or environment variabl
- medium Agent Snooping · line 269 Skill enumerates or reads other installed skills. Access to other skills' SKILL.md files or the skills directory reveals prompt instructions, capabilities, and secrets that should be invisible to peer skills.Fix: Remove all code or instructions that list or read other skills' files or directories. Skills should operate independently; cross-skill access is a privilege escalation.
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 | $0.00062 | $0.04509 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00031 | $0.02254 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00012 | $0.00902 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00006 | $0.00451 |
Grade A, and why
academic-writing-setup 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 11d 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 — 324 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Academic Writing Setup
This skill configures Claude for the output side of academic work: writing theses, journal papers, conference submissions, dissertations, and abstracts. It pairs with research-setup (input side — reading papers, notes) and knowledge-base-setup (personal notes) but focuses on producing manuscripts.
Use this skill when the project is primarily a LaTeX or Typst document, not a literature survey or a generic research notebook.
Handoff context: Read skills/_shared/consume-handoff.md and run it with the handoff block (if any). The helper guarantees the following locals: detected_language, existing_claude_md, inferred_use_case, repo_signals, graphify_candidate. Use detected_language for all user-facing prose; generated file content stays in English.
Cascade mode: When the handoff context carries source_skill: "research-setup", this skill is running as the second leg of a cascade invoked from research-setup. In that mode:
- Do NOT re-run language detection — use the parent's
detected_languagedirectly. - If
superpowers_offered: true, SKIP the Superpowers offer in Step 1 entirely. Treatsuperpowers_installedas whatever the parent resolved it to. Do not re-prompt the user. - All other steps (toolchain probe, Q1–Q6 context questions, artifact generation, subagent offer, hook offer) still run. The user explicitly opted into the writing-side setup; they still need to answer discipline / stack / citation-style questions.
On direct or orchestrator dispatch, both markers are absent and this skill behaves exactly as before.
Existing CLAUDE.md: If existing_claude_md: true, DO NOT overwrite it. Append a new delimited section at the end of the file:
<!-- onboarding-agent:start setup=academic-writing skill=academic-writing-setup section=claude-md -->
## Claude Onboarding Agent — Academic Writing Setup
...generated content...
<!-- onboarding-agent:end -->
If the delimited block already exists from a previous run (either the attributed form above or the legacy unattributed <!-- onboarding-agent:start --> form), replace only the content between the markers; leave the rest of the file untouched. Upgrade the opening marker to the attributed form — /upgrade-setup depends on it for detection.
What ships with it
4 files beside SKILL.md 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.
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.
- 11d ago First seen · 324 lines · 62 tokens per session scan A 9952c73324b0
academic-writing-setup is a skill published in the GitHub repository a2ngerer/claude_onboarding_agent (5 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 62 tokens to every session and 4,509 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 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 2026-08-31.
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