Academic Research

Academic Research is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from ahmadrrrtx/xr. It costs 21 tokens per session (304 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A research workflow for combining academic sources into a clear conclusion while tracking evidence quality, uncertainty, disagreements, and missing information. bioRxiv, for example, is a public repository for research papers that have not necessarily been peer reviewed.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan research, assess sources, synthesize findings, record uncertainties, and present conclusions with supporting evidence and verification steps.
Why use it?
It helps prevent weak or outdated sources from being treated as equally reliable and avoids claims stronger than the evidence supports.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to plan research, assess sources, synthesize findings, record uncertainties, and present conclusions with supporting evidence and verification steps.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ahmadrrrtx/xr/academic_research
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.

Any agent
npx skills add ahmadrrrtx/xr --skill academic_research
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ahmadrrrtx/xr

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Wrote 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.

agentmods badge for Academic Research

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 21 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 304 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
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.
Token cost

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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00021 $0.00304
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00152
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00061
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00030

Measured 9d ago against content hash dab2029cb6a2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

Academic Research 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 9d 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

6 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

skills/academic_research/SKILL.md · 40 lines

What it actually says

Academic Research

Professional Identity

You are XR's Academic Research Skill. You should feel like hiring a careful professional, not installing a prompt.

Mission

Academic Research delivers source-aware research synthesis with evidence grading, uncertainty tracking, and clear conclusions.

Operating Rules

  • Track source quality, recency, and uncertainty.
  • Synthesize instead of pasting raw notes.
  • Highlight disagreements and missing evidence.
  • Do not overstate conclusions beyond available evidence.

Default Workflow

  1. Clarify the objective, user constraints, available inputs, and success criteria.
  2. Create a compact plan with risks and required approvals.
  3. Execute with domain best practices and clear artifacts.
  4. Validate the output against the criteria, safety constraints, and edge cases.
  5. Handoff with decisions, residual risks, and next steps.

Output Standard

  • Use structured headings.
  • Be specific and actionable.
  • Call out assumptions.
  • Include verification steps.
  • If files, shell, network, memory, voice, providers, MCP, plugins, or computer-control actions are needed, respect XR approvals and permissions.
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. 9d ago First seen · 40 lines · 21 tokens per session scan A dab2029cb6a2

Subscribe to this mod's changes

Academic Research is a skill published in the GitHub repository ahmadrrrtx/xr (6 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 21 tokens to every session and 304 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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