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 chemaoxfz/idea-to-essay --skill research-essaygit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/chemaoxfz/idea-to-essayWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/chemaoxfz/idea-to-essay/research-essay)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/chemaoxfz/idea-to-essay/research-essay"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/chemaoxfz/idea-to-essay/research-essay/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/chemaoxfz/idea-to-essay/research-essay"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/chemaoxfz/idea-to-essay/research-essay.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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 | $0.00080 | $0.02104 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00032 | $0.00842 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00016 | $0.00421 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00008 | $0.00210 |
Grade A, and why
research-essay 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 — 165 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Research essay
Build a project whose central deliverable teaches an idea in conversation with the literature. The default is one standalone HTML file, backed by full texts on disk and reproducible analysis. Respect the user's chosen scope, audience, and format. A focused revision is not a new project.
Non-negotiables
- Read the evidence. Retrieve, verify, and inspect the full text of sources that materially inform the argument. Abstracts, snippets, and memory cannot establish a load-bearing claim. If full text is unavailable, record the gap and qualify or defer the dependent claim.
- Let evidence change the idea. Log genuine corrections and fix the argument. Report negative results, weakened intuitions, and contrary evidence. Do not manufacture a correction or a result.
- Make the correspondence exact. An analogy is not an argument. Name the shared mathematical object or mechanism, its assumptions, and where the correspondence breaks.
- Make numbers traceable. Quantitative claims come from runnable project code, an inspected source, or documented figure digitization. Distinguish measurements, assumptions, and model outputs.
- Teach before using. Define concepts, quantities, and named cases before interpreting them. A citation does not supply missing context. Keep meanings, units, and notation consistent. Separate derived accounting from assumed response curves. Explain why each chosen form is useful.
- Give each section a point. Its question, reasoning, evidence, and takeaway must agree. A definition, limitation, or unresolved decision can be the point. Keep its conditions intact.
- Deliver a standalone argument. The reader has neither the chat nor earlier drafts. The prose and the visual sequence must each make sense without that history. In a model-led essay, connect applications and conclusions to that model and name its extensions.
- Typeset all mathematics. Use proper mathematical rendering in inline prose, display equations, tables, captions, figure labels, and interactive controls and readouts. Native MathML is the HTML default. Equivalent offline rendering is acceptable. Render figure mathematics with a math engine or properly positioned SVG glyphs. Raw TeX, ASCII subscripts, and monospace approximations are not finished mathematics. Follow the rendering rules in house-style.md.
What ships with it
15 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/openai.yaml 238 B
- assets/template.html 22 KB
- references/build.md 8.3 KB
- references/conventions.md 5.4 KB
- references/exemplars.md 4.6 KB
- references/house-style.md 15 KB
- references/literature.md 7.1 KB
- references/narrative.md 10 KB
- scripts/build.py 4.3 KB runs code
- scripts/check.py 11 KB runs code
- scripts/fetch.py 9.2 KB runs code
- scripts/pmcget.py 2.1 KB runs code
- scripts/README.md 3.0 KB
- scripts/renumber.py 2.7 KB runs code
- scripts/resolve.py 2.5 KB runs code
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 · +8 lines eefd4584e014
- 1mo ago Changed · -117 lines · -127 tokens per session 25d8162e5955
- 2mo ago First seen · 274 lines · 207 tokens per session scan A 70e19b65c781
research-essay is a skill published in the GitHub repository chemaoxfz/idea-to-essay (4 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 80 tokens to every session and 2,104 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-31.
research-essay compared with skills from other repositories
| Mod | Type | Stars | Last push | Licence | Scan | Tokens | Works with |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| research-essaychemaoxfz/idea-to-essay | Skill | 4 | 1mo ago | MIT | A | 80 | Claude Code, Codex |
| latex-postersbeita6969/ScienceClaw | Skill | 1.0k | yesterday | MIT | A | 60 | Claude Code |
| data-viz-plotsbeita6969/ScienceClaw | Skill | 1.0k | yesterday | MIT | A | 34 | Claude Code, Codex |
| gnomad-databasebeita6969/ScienceClaw | Skill | 1.0k | yesterday | MIT | A | 58 | Claude Code, Codex |
| arxiv-databasebeita6969/ScienceClaw | Skill | 1.0k | yesterday | MIT | A | 63 | Claude Code, Codex |
| meta-analysisbeita6969/ScienceClaw | Skill | 1.0k | yesterday | MIT | A | 73 | Claude Code, Codex |
| post-processingbeita6969/ScienceClaw | Skill | 1.0k | yesterday | MIT | A | 45 | Claude Code |