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 fabioc-aloha/Alex_Skill_Mall --skill academic-researchgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/fabioc-aloha/Alex_Skill_MallWrote 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/fabioc-aloha/alex_skill_mall/academic-research)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/fabioc-aloha/alex_skill_mall/academic-research"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/fabioc-aloha/alex_skill_mall/academic-research/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/fabioc-aloha/alex_skill_mall/academic-research"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/fabioc-aloha/alex_skill_mall/academic-research.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 | $0.00027 | $0.02026 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00014 | $0.01013 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00005 | $0.00405 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00003 | $0.00203 |
Grade A, and why
academic-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 11d 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 — 339 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Academic Research
Complete research lifecycle: project setup, literature review, writing, publication, and defense.
Project Structure
research-project/
├── .github/
│ └── copilot-instructions.md # Research context for the AI assistant
├── docs/
│ ├── RESEARCH-PLAN.md # Questions, timeline, milestones
│ ├── METHODOLOGY.md # Design decisions
│ └── DECISION-LOG.md # Key decisions with rationale
├── data/
│ ├── raw/ # Untouched source data
│ ├── processed/ # Cleaned/transformed
│ └── DATA-DICTIONARY.md # Variable definitions
├── analysis/
│ ├── scripts/ # Analysis code
│ └── outputs/ # Figures, tables
├── writing/
│ ├── drafts/ # Work in progress
│ └── submissions/ # Submitted versions
├── references/
│ ├── LITERATURE-MATRIX.md # Systematic tracking
│ └── notes/ # Reading notes
└── README.md
Quick Setup
mkdir -p .github docs data/{raw,processed} analysis/{scripts,outputs} writing/{drafts,submissions} references/notes
touch docs/RESEARCH-PLAN.md docs/METHODOLOGY.md references/LITERATURE-MATRIX.md .github/copilot-instructions.md
Research Project Types
| Type | Duration | Output | Review |
|---|---|---|---|
| Master's Thesis | 1-2 years | 80-150 pages | Committee defense |
| PhD Dissertation | 3-7 years | 150-300+ pages | Committee + external |
| Journal Article | 3-12 months | 5,000-10,000 words | Peer review |
| Conference Paper | 2-6 months | 4,000-8,000 words | Peer review |
Research Question Development
PICO Framework
- Population — Who is being studied?
- Intervention — What is being tested?
- Comparison — Against what?
- Outcome — What is measured?
FINER Criteria
| Criterion | Question |
|---|---|
| Feasible | Can it be done with available resources? |
| Interesting | Does anyone care? |
| Novel | Does it add new knowledge? |
| Ethical | Can it be done ethically? |
| Relevant | Does it matter to the field? |
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.
- 11d ago First seen · 339 lines · 27 tokens per session scan A fb42882a7af7
academic-research is a skill published in the GitHub repository fabioc-aloha/Alex_Skill_Mall (4 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 27 tokens to every session and 2,026 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 2026-08-31.
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