alterlab-denario

alterlab-denario is a skill for Claude Code from AlterLab-IEU/AlterLab-Academic-Skills. It costs 144 tokens per session (1,718 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A multi-agent system for scientific research that starts with a described dataset and can develop ideas, methods, computational analyses, visualisations, and a LaTeX research paper. LaTeX is a text-based system commonly used to format technical documents.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to generate research hypotheses, design methodologies, analyse datasets, create visualisations, search literature, and prepare publication-style papers.
Why use it?
It brings several research stages into one workflow, reducing the need to move manually between hypothesis design, experiments, literature context, and manuscript writing.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Part of the alterlab-finance-economics plugin — 2 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to generate research hypotheses, design methodologies, analyse datasets, create visualisations, search literature, and prepare publication-style papers.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/alterlab-ieu/alterlab-academic-skills/alterlab-denario
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 AlterLab-IEU/AlterLab-Academic-Skills --skill alterlab-denario
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AlterLab-IEU/AlterLab-Academic-Skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install alterlab-finance-economics, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 2 skills.

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Per session 144 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,718 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00144 $0.01718
Opus 5 $0.00072 $0.00859
Sonnet 5 $0.00029 $0.00344
Haiku 4.5 $0.00014 $0.00172

Measured 7d ago against content hash dbebdf633782, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

alterlab-denario 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 7d 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.

skills/finance-economics/alterlab-denario/SKILL.md · 213 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 213 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Denario

Overview

Denario (by AstroPilot-AI) is a multiagent AI system designed to automate scientific research workflows from a described dataset through publication-ready manuscripts. It implements agents with AG2 and LangGraph, using cmbagent as the research-analysis backend, to handle hypothesis generation, methodology development, computational analysis, and paper writing.

Source: https://github.com/AstroPilot-AI/Denario | Docs: https://denario.readthedocs.io | Paper: arXiv:2510.26887 (v1.0, Nov 2025).

When to Use This Skill

Use this skill when:

  • Analyzing datasets to generate novel research hypotheses
  • Developing structured research methodologies
  • Executing computational experiments and generating visualizations
  • Conducting literature searches for research context
  • Writing journal-formatted LaTeX papers from research results
  • Automating the complete research pipeline from data to publication

Installation

Install with uv (recommended). Quote the extra so zsh does not glob [app]:

uv init
uv add "denario[app]"

The [app] extra pulls in the Streamlit GUI (DenarioApp); omit it for headless/library use. For Docker deployment or building from source, see references/installation.md.

LLM API Configuration

On init, Denario reads provider keys from the environment via its KeyManager (no config object). The relevant variables:

  • OPENAI_API_KEYrequired (the analysis/results module needs it; OpenAI models are the cmbagent-mode defaults).
  • GOOGLE_API_KEY — optional, a Gemini API key (the default LLM for the faster mode="fast" path). Note this is a plain Gemini key, not a Vertex AI service-account JSON.
  • ANTHROPIC_API_KEY — optional (Claude).
  • PERPLEXITY_API_KEY — optional, only for citation search.

Set them in the shell or a .env (loaded with python-dotenv before importing denario). Google Vertex AI is also supported as a backend; see references/llm_configuration.md for that and .env/Docker details.

Read the full file on GitHub · 213 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 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.

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. 7d ago First seen · 213 lines · 144 tokens per session scan A dbebdf633782

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alterlab-denario is a skill published in the GitHub repository AlterLab-IEU/AlterLab-Academic-Skills (66 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 144 tokens to every session and 1,718 once invoked, about $0.0007 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 2026-09-05.

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