reproduce

reproduce is a skill for Claude Code from fcakyon/phd-skills. It costs 75 tokens per session (972 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for reproducing the results of a machine-learning research paper from its paper link through test runs and experiments.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for finding available implementations, extracting missing experiment details, filling implementation gaps, substituting similar public datasets when needed, and comparing replication results with the paper’s reported results.
Why use it?
It addresses common gaps such as missing code, training scripts, hyperparameters, dataset access, or exact instructions from the original authors.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the phd-skills plugin — 12 skills, 6 commands, 2 agents, 4 hooks shipped together

Good fit It is for finding available implementations, extracting missing experiment details, filling implementation gaps, substituting similar public datasets when needed, and comparing replication results with the paper’s reported results.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/fcakyon/phd-skills/reproduce
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 fcakyon/phd-skills --skill reproduce
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/fcakyon/phd-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install phd-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 12 skills, 6 commands, 2 agents, 4 hooks.

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 reproduce

README.md
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Your own site
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agentmods 80×15 button for reproduce

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 75 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 972 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. 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 $0.00075 $0.00972
Opus 5 $0.00037 $0.00486
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00194
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00097

Measured 10d ago against content hash 2c9b2c8635eb, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

reproduce 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 10d 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.

plugin/skills/reproduce/SKILL.md · 70 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 70 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Reproduce: paper reproduction from scratch

Reproducing an ML paper often means filling gaps the authors didn't ship, training scripts, hyperparameter tables, augmentation specifics, exact dataset splits. This skill walks seven stages from "I have an arxiv link" to "I have a replication run with measurable delta vs the paper's number."

Each stage has a separate reference file under references/ so this overview stays scannable.

When to run

The user just said any of:

  • "reproduce / implement / replicate / re-run paper X"
  • pasted an arxiv URL with reproduction intent ("can you redo this", "let's try this approach")
  • pointed at an OpenReview / proceedings link with the same intent
  • said "the paper has no code, can we build it"

Workflow

Stage What Reference
1 Paper acquisition (arxiv HTML → structured extract) references/01-paper-fetch.md
2 Existing code discovery + inventory references/02-code-clone.md
3 Gap analysis (extract every missing hyperparam from the prose) references/03-gap-analysis.md
4 Implementation (uv venv, fill gaps, commit per gap) references/04-implement.md
5 Dataset acquisition (HF datasets first; substitute if private) references/05-dataset.md
6 Smoke runs (forward pass → 1 step → 20 iters) references/06-smoke.md
7 Replication runs + comparison at paper's reported epochs references/07-replicate.md

Read the full file on GitHub · 70 lines

Files

What ships with it

7 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. 10d ago First seen · 70 lines · 75 tokens per session scan A 2c9b2c8635eb

Subscribe to this mod's changes

reproduce is a skill published in the GitHub repository fcakyon/phd-skills (387 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 75 tokens to every session and 972 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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