survey-generator

survey-generator is a skill for Claude Code from dair-ai/dair-academy-plugins. It costs 96 tokens per session (1,975 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A research-writing skill that creates a single HTML survey paper about an AI or machine-learning topic. It gathers sources from a public starting resource, then sends the research bundle to Kimi K2.6 for paper generation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Creating technical survey papers or literature reviews on topics such as AI systems or reasoning models.
Why use it?
It organizes scattered research into a structured bundle and produces one file containing the paper, figures, and references. The user must provide a topic and a public source URL.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Part of the survey-generator plugin — 1 skill shipped together

Good fit Creating technical survey papers or literature reviews on topics such as AI systems or reasoning models.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/dair-ai/dair-academy-plugins/survey-generator
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 dair-ai/dair-academy-plugins --skill survey-generator
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dair-ai/dair-academy-plugins

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install survey-generator, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill.

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 survey-generator

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/dair-ai/dair-academy-plugins/survey-generator/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/dair-ai/dair-academy-plugins/survey-generator)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/dair-ai/dair-academy-plugins/survey-generator"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/dair-ai/dair-academy-plugins/survey-generator/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.

agentmods 80×15 button for survey-generator

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/dair-ai/dair-academy-plugins/survey-generator"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/dair-ai/dair-academy-plugins/survey-generator.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 96 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,975 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
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 $0.00096 $0.01975
Opus 5 $0.00048 $0.00988
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.00395
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00198

Measured 12d ago against content hash 47e899e0dda2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

survey-generator scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 12d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (build_artifact.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

- Python 3 with stdlib only (urllib). No external dependencies.
plugins/survey-generator/skills/survey-generator/SKILL.md · 113 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 113 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Survey Generator Skill

Generate an academic-style survey paper as a single self-contained HTML file.

What this skill does

Given a topic and a public anchor resource, this skill:

  1. Reads the anchor resource and extracts the landscape of relevant work.
  2. Builds a structured research_bundle.json (title, taxonomy, sections, bibliography of real papers).
  3. Calls Kimi K2.6 via the Fireworks chat completions API with the research bundle and a fixed style_spec.json.
  4. Writes a single-file HTML artifact with inline SVG figures, an academic layout, numbered sections, and a References list.

The agent using this skill is responsible only for research curation. All prose, figures, and HTML are generated by Kimi K2.6 in one API call.

Inputs from the user

The user invokes this skill with at minimum:

  • topic: a concise survey topic, for example "Agentic Engineering" or "Reasoning Models".
  • source_url: a public anchor resource. Any curated list, canonical blog post, arXiv survey, GitHub awesome-list, or index page works. Suggested starting points: DAIR.AI AI Papers of the Week (a continuously updated open-source index of notable AI/ML papers, well suited for broad topics), a GitHub awesome-* repo, an arXiv survey PDF, or a well-maintained papers page.

Optional:

  • bibliography_size: target bibliography size. Default 20 for a quick survey. Use 40 to 50 for a comprehensive survey, 80 to 100 for an exhaustive one. Section length and token budget scale with this.
  • section_count: number of sections, default 6 to 10.

If the user has not provided these, use AskUserQuestion to collect them before proceeding.

Requirements

  • FIREWORKS_API_KEY exported in the environment. The build script reads it from os.environ.
  • Python 3 with stdlib only (urllib). No external dependencies.

Workflow for the agent

Follow these steps in order. Do not skip steps.

Step 1. Read the anchor resource

Fetch and read source_url. If it is a GitHub repo, fetch the README and any relevant README-*.md or papers.md indices. If it is an arXiv survey, use the abstract, figures, and section headings. If it is a blog post, read it in full. Extract the key subtopics and the papers or systems it references by name.

Read the full file on GitHub · 113 lines

Files

What ships with it

6 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. 12d ago First seen · 113 lines · 96 tokens per session scan A 47e899e0dda2

Subscribe to this mod's changes

survey-generator is a skill published in the GitHub repository dair-ai/dair-academy-plugins (614 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 96 tokens to every session and 1,975 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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