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 AlterLab-IEU/AlterLab-Academic-Skills --skill alterlab-research-pipelinegit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AlterLab-IEU/AlterLab-Academic-SkillsWrote 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.
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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 | $0.00126 | $0.05731 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00050 | $0.02292 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00025 | $0.01146 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00013 | $0.00573 |
Grade A, and why
alterlab-research-pipeline 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 — 432 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Academic Pipeline — Full Academic Research Workflow Orchestrator
A lightweight orchestrator that manages the complete academic pipeline from research exploration to final manuscript. It does not perform substantive work — it only detects stages, recommends modes, dispatches skills, manages transitions, and tracks state.
v2.0 Core Improvements:
- Mandatory user confirmation checkpoints — Each stage completion requires user confirmation before proceeding to the next step
- Academic integrity verification — After paper completion and before review submission, 100% reference and data verification must pass
- Two-stage review — First full review + post-revision focused verification review
- Final integrity check — After revision completion, re-verify all citations and data are 100% correct
- Reproducible — Standardized workflow producing consistent quality assurance each time
- Process documentation — After pipeline completion, automatically generates a "Paper Creation Process Record" PDF documenting the human-AI collaboration history
Quick Start
Full workflow (from scratch):
I want to write a research paper on the impact of AI on higher education quality assurance
--> alterlab-research-pipeline launches, starting from Stage 1 (RESEARCH)
Mid-entry (existing paper):
I already have a paper, help me review it
--> alterlab-research-pipeline detects mid-entry, starting from Stage 2.5 (INTEGRITY)
Revision mode (received reviewer feedback):
I received reviewer comments, help me revise
--> alterlab-research-pipeline detects, starting from Stage 4 (REVISE)
Execution flow:
- Detect the user's current stage and available materials
- Recommend the optimal mode for each stage
- Dispatch the corresponding skill for each stage
- After each stage completion, proactively prompt and wait for user confirmation
- Track progress throughout; Pipeline Status Dashboard available at any time
Trigger Conditions
What ships with it
20 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.
- agents/integrity_verification_agent.md 30 KB
- agents/pipeline_orchestrator_agent.md 22 KB
- agents/state_tracker_agent.md 16 KB
- commands/research-pipeline.md 1.8 KB
- evals/evals.json 4.1 KB
- examples/full_pipeline_example.md 17 KB
- examples/integrity_failure_recovery.md 26 KB
- examples/mid_entry_example.md 12 KB
- references/changelog.md 4.9 KB
- references/claim_verification_protocol.md 2.7 KB
- references/external_review_protocol.md 6.4 KB
- references/integrity_and_review_protocols.md 3.6 KB
- references/mode_advisor.md 8.2 KB
- references/orchestrator_workflow.md 2.6 KB
- references/pipeline_state_machine.md 13 KB
- references/plagiarism_detection_protocol.md 13 KB
- references/process_summary_protocol.md 6.4 KB
- references/reproducibility_and_audit.md 1.8 KB
- references/team_collaboration_protocol.md 8.9 KB
- templates/pipeline_status_template.md 4.5 KB
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 · -21 lines 4975fc44d081
- 1mo ago First seen · 453 lines · 126 tokens per session scan A f633869bacd5
alterlab-research-pipeline is a skill published in the GitHub repository AlterLab-IEU/AlterLab-Academic-Skills (78 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 126 tokens to every session and 5,731 once invoked, about $0.0005 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 2026-09-03.
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