us-program-research

us-program-research is a skill for Claude Code from ericgandrade/claude-superskills. It costs 27 tokens per session (3,009 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A research process for comparing and ranking academic programs in the United States, including PhD, master's, and bachelor's degrees. It examines credentials, courses, costs, admissions, and application strategy.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to find suitable US programs, compare requirements and costs, rank options, and create a practical application plan.
Why use it?
It turns scattered program information into a structured comparison suited to a student's background, budget, and timeline.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions subagents; names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Part of the claude-superskills plugin — 18 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to find suitable US programs, compare requirements and costs, rank options, and create a practical application plan.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ericgandrade/claude-superskills/us-program-research
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 ericgandrade/claude-superskills --skill us-program-research
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ericgandrade/claude-superskills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install claude-superskills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 18 skills.

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Per session 27 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,009 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 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 $0.00027 $0.03009
Opus 5 $0.00014 $0.01504
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00602
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00301

Measured 9d ago against content hash 0987c6ee8e56, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

us-program-research 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 9d 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/us-program-research/SKILL.md · 268 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 268 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

US Academic Program Research — Complete Workflow

Purpose

Run structured research on US academic programs with credential analysis, parallel discovery, adaptive scorecards, and generation of an actionable application plan in a deliverable format.

When to Use

Use this skill when the task requires:

  • Selecting and ranking programs (PhD, Master's, or Bachelor's) in the US
  • Detailed comparison of curriculum, costs, and admission requirements
  • Application strategy based on profile, budget, and timeline
  • A final consolidated document for decision-making and execution

Progress Tracking

Display progress before each research phase:

[███░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░] 15% — Phase 0: Program Type Detection & Input Collection
[██████░░░░░░░░░░░░░░] 30% — Phase 1: Profile & Credential Analysis
[█████████░░░░░░░░░░░] 45% — Phase 2: Parallel Discovery (4 subagents)
[████████████░░░░░░░░] 60% — Phase 3: Parallel Deep Research (4 subagents)
[███████████████░░░░░] 75% — Phase 4: Adaptive Scorecards & Ranking
[█████████████████░░░] 85% — Phase 5: Document Generation
[████████████████████] 100% — Phase 6: Inline Report & Recommendations

Workflow

Follow the phases defined below in sequence, maintaining source traceability and separating facts from inferences.

Personalized research on US academic programs (PhD, Master's MS/MBA/MPS, or Bachelor's). Analyzes the candidate's profile, runs parallel searches via subagents, identifies hidden gems, applies an adaptive scorecard, and generates a complete ACTION_PLAN.md with rankings, curricula, costs, and a step-by-step checklist.

Output language: Portuguese (matches user research context). Queries/subagents: English (required for search quality).


Execution Instructions

  1. PHASE 0 — detect program type (FIRST QUESTION)
  2. PHASE 0B — collect all inputs before researching
  3. PHASE 2 — launch 4 subagents in ONE message (true parallelism)
  4. PHASE 3 — launch 4 deep-research subagents in ONE message
  5. PHASE 4 — apply adaptive scorecard after all research is complete
  6. PHASE 5 — generate full document and save
  7. PHASE 6 — present inline report to user

Read the full file on GitHub · 268 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. 9d ago First seen · 268 lines · 27 tokens per session scan A 0987c6ee8e56

Subscribe to this mod's changes

us-program-research is a skill published in the GitHub repository ericgandrade/claude-superskills (74 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 27 tokens to every session and 3,009 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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