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 EvoScientist/EvoSkills --skill research-surveygit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/EvoScientist/EvoSkillsWrote 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/evoscientist/evoskills/research-survey)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/evoscientist/evoskills/research-survey"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/evoscientist/evoskills/research-survey/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/evoscientist/evoskills/research-survey"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/evoscientist/evoskills/research-survey.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- NVIDIA SkillSpector pass
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 | $0.00125 | $0.02144 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00063 | $0.01072 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00025 | $0.00429 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00013 | $0.00214 |
Grade A, and why
research-survey 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.
Copies of this mod
1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:
- research-survey — 94% identical, 2 lines differ
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 211 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Research Survey
Generates high-quality, survey-grade literature reviews from papers collected by paper-navigator.
paper-navigator (collect 30-120 papers)
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Stage 1: Generate Outline (query-type adaptive structure)
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Stage 2: Draft Survey (outline + top-30 papers)
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Stage 3: Expand Sections (draft + all papers, section-by-section)
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Stage 4: Generate Section Summaries
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Stage 5: Refine Summary Sections (Abstract/Intro/Conclusion)
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Stage 6: Assemble + References
When to Use
- User asks for a "literature review", "survey", "field overview", or "systematic review"
- User has collected papers and wants them synthesized into a structured report
- User wants to understand the full landscape of a research field
When NOT to Use
- Finding papers → use
paper-navigatorfirst, then come here - Generating research ideas → use
research-ideation - Writing a Related Work section for a paper → use
paper-writing
Dependency: paper-navigator
This skill requires papers as input. If the user hasn't provided papers, first invoke paper-navigator (Workflow 1, target 30-120 papers) to collect them.
CRITICAL: All paper discovery MUST use the paper-navigator skill and its scripts (scholar_search, citation_traverse, arxiv_monitor, recommend, etc.). Using WebSearch, WebFetch, or any generic web search tool for finding papers is PROHIBITED. Generic web search cannot access Semantic Scholar, citation graphs, or academic recommendation systems. Only paper-navigator provides the academic search infrastructure needed for survey-quality literature collection.
Stage 1: Generate Outline
This is a two-phase process. Different fields have different survey conventions — a clinical systematic review looks nothing like a CS methods survey. First generate a domain-appropriate template, then create the detailed outline.
Phase 1A: Generate Domain-Specific Survey Template
Before outlining, identify the field and adapt the structure:
What ships with it
3 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.
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.
- 9d ago First seen · 211 lines · 125 tokens per session scan A 2d547783c85a
research-survey is a skill published in the GitHub repository EvoScientist/EvoSkills (436 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 125 tokens to every session and 2,144 once invoked, about $0.0006 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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