manage-project

manage-project is a skill for Claude Code from Aperivue/medsci-skills. It costs 46 tokens per session (2,536 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A project-management system for medical manuscripts, meaning research papers prepared for publication. It creates project folders, tracks writing phases, stores project memory, and produces checklists and submission timelines.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to start a paper project, check its status, synchronise memory files, generate submission checklists, and plan backwards from a journal deadline.
Why use it?
It keeps decisions, files, deadlines, and manuscript progress in one project structure. This reduces the chance of missing work during drafting, revision, or submission.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: ${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR} variable. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Needs its repository: it runs a file that does not travel with it, so clone the repository first. The line is python3 scripts/init_project.py \.

Part of the medsci-project plugin — 6 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to start a paper project, check its status, synchronise memory files, generate submission checklists, and plan backwards from a journal deadline.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Aperivue/medsci-skills
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/aperivue/medsci-skills/manage-project

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install medsci-project, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 6 skills.

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Per session 46 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,536 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 warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

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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 $0.00046 $0.02536
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.01268
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00507
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00254

Measured 11d ago against content hash 0517ccd1c5ec, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

manage-project 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 11d 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/manage-project/SKILL.md · 291 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 291 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Manage-Project Skill -- Research Project Management

Purpose

Scaffold new research projects, track manuscript writing progress, maintain lightweight project memory, generate pre-submission checklists, and create backwards submission timelines. Integrates with all other writing skills and the project-manager agent.


Commands

/manage-project init {name} --type {type} --journal {journal} [--ssot] [--zotero-collection NAME]

Create a complete project scaffold for a new research paper.

Parameters:

  • {name} -- Project identifier (e.g., nnunet-skull-fracture, rfa-meta-analysis)
  • --type -- Paper type: original | meta | case | animal | technical | ai_validation | letter
  • --journal -- Target journal: RYAI | AJR | Radiology | European_Radiology | KJR | INSI | AJNR | generic
  • --ssot -- Emit SSOT.yaml (schema v1) from templates/SSOT.yaml.template instead of legacy project.yaml. Required for Phase 1C auto-enforce (the PostToolUse verify-refs hook blocks instead of warns). New projects should pass --ssot; legacy in-flight projects stay on project.yaml until /manage-project migrate-ssot is run.
  • --zotero-collection NAME -- Optional. Create a Zotero collection via pyzotero and populate library_id + collection_key in the contract. Requires ZOTERO_API_KEY + ZOTERO_LIBRARY_ID (optionally ZOTERO_LIBRARY_TYPE, default user). Graceful degrade: with pyzotero missing or credentials absent, the contract is scaffolded with library_id: null / collection_key: null and a WARN is printed.

SSOT template substitutions: {{PROJECT_ID}}{name}; {{PROJECT_TYPE}} → the SSOT project_type enum mapped from --type (original → original_research, meta → meta_analysis, case → case_report, ai_validation → ai_validation, else other). Without --zotero-collection, library_id / collection_key stay null until the owner links an existing collection.

Implementation: backed by scripts/init_project.py. Invoke it directly when running outside the skill harness (from the medsci-skills repo root):

Read the full file on GitHub · 291 lines

Files

What ships with it

8 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. 11d ago First seen · 291 lines · 46 tokens per session scan A 0517ccd1c5ec

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manage-project is a skill published in the GitHub repository Aperivue/medsci-skills (292 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 46 tokens to every session and 2,536 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-30.

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