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-thesis-supervisorgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AlterLab-IEU/AlterLab-Academic-SkillsWrote this? Show the measurements
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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 | $0.00138 | $0.03910 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00055 | $0.01564 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00028 | $0.00782 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00014 | $0.00391 |
Grade A, and why
alterlab-thesis-supervisor 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 — 317 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Thesis Supervisor — Dissertation & Thesis Supervision Agent
A comprehensive thesis and dissertation supervision tool for faculty supervisors and advisors, and for the work they do with their graduate students. Covers the full dissertation lifecycle from initial topic selection through successful defense, providing chapter-by-chapter guidance, supervision strategies, timeline management, and defense preparation.
Overview
Supervising a thesis or dissertation is one of the most complex and consequential activities in academic life. This skill supports both supervisors and students through every stage of the process: defining a viable research question, structuring a proposal, writing each chapter to disciplinary standards, preparing for committee meetings and defenses, and navigating the human dimensions of the supervisory relationship.
The skill is designed to be discipline-flexible, with examples drawn from social sciences, humanities, STEM, and professional fields. Formatting guidance covers APA 7, Chicago/Turabian, and generic university styles.
When to Use This Skill
This skill should be used when:
- Beginning thesis/dissertation topic exploration
- Writing a research proposal for committee approval
- Structuring any chapter of a thesis or dissertation
- Preparing for a proposal defense or final defense (viva voce)
- Managing the supervisor-student relationship
- Creating or adjusting a thesis timeline
- Giving feedback on student drafts
- Preparing students for committee meetings
- Troubleshooting common thesis problems (writer's block, scope creep, data issues)
- Preparing thesis-writing guidance or a workshop for your own supervisees (designing a full seminar course with outcomes and rubrics belongs to
alterlab-teaching-design)
Does NOT Trigger
| Scenario | Use Instead |
|---|---|
| Writing a journal article (not thesis), including one derived from a dissertation | alterlab-paper-writer |
| Statistical analysis of thesis data | alterlab-statistical-analysis |
| Systematic literature search strategy (PRISMA screening) | alterlab-deep-research |
| Survey/instrument design for thesis | alterlab-survey-design |
| Designing a thesis-writing seminar course (learning outcomes, rubrics, syllabus) | alterlab-teaching-design |
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.
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 · +3 lines e9e6887747ad
- 1mo ago First seen · 314 lines · 138 tokens per session scan A 8f04cc6b6e70
alterlab-thesis-supervisor is a skill published in the GitHub repository AlterLab-IEU/AlterLab-Academic-Skills (78 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 138 tokens to every session and 3,910 once invoked, about $0.0006 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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