Getting it into your agent
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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 | $0.03818 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00069 | $0.01909 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00028 | $0.00764 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00014 | $0.00382 |
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 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 314 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 advisors and 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)
- Teaching thesis writing seminars or workshops
Does NOT Trigger
| Scenario | Use Instead |
|---|---|
| Writing a journal article (not thesis) | alterlab-paper-writer |
| Statistical analysis of thesis data | Data science skills |
| Literature search strategy | alterlab-deep-research |
| Survey/instrument design for thesis | alterlab-survey-design |
Core Capabilities
1. Dissertation Structure Overview
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.
- 7d 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 (66 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 138 tokens to every session and 3,818 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 2026-09-03.
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