paper-method

paper-method is a skill for Claude Code from cabbage2000-lab/paper-tutor-skills. It costs 399 tokens per session (8,128 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A research-method planning guide that checks whether a proposed method can answer a research question and flags ethics-review needs for studies involving people.

In plain words
What is it for?
Matching research questions with method types, reviewing study designs, and checking whether surveys or experiments fit the intended question.
Why use it?
It helps prevent choosing a method that cannot properly answer the question. It also highlights when human-participant ethics review may be needed.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the paper-tutor plugin — 24 skills shipped together

Good fit Matching research questions with method types, reviewing study designs, and checking whether surveys or experiments fit the intended question.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/cabbage2000-lab/paper-tutor-skills/paper-method
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 cabbage2000-lab/paper-tutor-skills --skill paper-method
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cabbage2000-lab/paper-tutor-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install paper-tutor, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 24 skills.

Wrote 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.

agentmods badge for paper-method

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/cabbage2000-lab/paper-tutor-skills/paper-method"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/cabbage2000-lab/paper-tutor-skills/paper-method.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 399 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 8,128 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.
Origin unknown 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 $0.00399 $0.08128
Opus 5 $0.00199 $0.04064
Sonnet 5 $0.00080 $0.01626
Haiku 4.5 $0.00040 $0.00813

Measured 8d ago against content hash e183b92fb324, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

paper-method 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 8d 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/paper-method/SKILL.md · 253 lines

The source is not reproduced here

A licence we could not identify

The repository carries a LICENSE file, but it is custom or dual enough that GitHub cannot name it and neither can this catalogue. Unknown terms are not permission, so the body is not copied here. Read the licence at the source and decide for yourself.

Read it on GitHub

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. 8d ago First seen · 253 lines · 399 tokens per session scan A e183b92fb324

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paper-method is a skill published in the GitHub repository cabbage2000-lab/paper-tutor-skills (23 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 399 tokens to every session and 8,128 once invoked, about $0.0020 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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