research-proposal

research-proposal is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from gaasher/Agent-Loop-Skills. It costs 112 tokens per session (2,523 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An iterative process for improving a research proposal, which describes a research problem, method, and planned experiments. It evaluates the proposal against published literature, scores the feedback, and revises it until it passes a set threshold or the budget ends.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review literature support, identify ranked improvements, revise the proposal, and decide whether it reaches the defined passing grade.
Why use it?
It helps strengthen the proposal’s evidence, soundness, novelty, and experimental plan while discouraging claims that the available research does not support.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the Agent-Loop-Skills plugin — 25 skills shipped together

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/gaasher/agent-loop-skills/research-proposal
Any agent
npx skills add gaasher/Agent-Loop-Skills --skill research-proposal
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/gaasher/Agent-Loop-Skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install Agent-Loop-Skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 25 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 112 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,523 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00112 $0.02523
Opus 5 $0.00056 $0.01262
Sonnet 5 $0.00022 $0.00505
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00252

Measured 5d ago against content hash 76e4ab854c0b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

research-proposal 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 5d 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.

loops/research-proposal/SKILL.md · 147 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 147 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Research Proposal Loop

The artifact is a research proposal; the feedback signal is ScholarEval (literature-grounded Soundness + Contribution) turned into a 0-100 grade by a Judge against the fixed rubric.md. Each iteration evaluates → grades → revises until the grade clears <pass_threshold> or the budget runs out.

North star. Clearing the threshold is the stopping condition, not the goal. The goal is the strongest, most novel, genuinely publishable version the proposal can honestly become — every revision should ask "does this make the work more significant and more novel?", not just "does this patch a flaw?". This is grounded ambition: the lift comes from better-justified methods, a sharper-but-defensible novelty claim, and stronger baselines, all backed by real retrieved evidence. Overclaiming lowers the grade (evidence gate + Contribution axis); it never raises it.

The cast (all in this folder):

  • roles/ScholarEval.md — the two-module literature-grounded evaluator; emits scholareval.json.
  • roles/Judge.md — grades the feedback → 0-100 + ranked fixes; emits verdict.json (decides pass).
  • roles/Reviser.md — rewrites the proposal to address the fixes (guards the research intent).
  • rubrics/rubric.md — the fixed grading rubric (the Judge never edits it).
  • schemas/scholareval.schema.json, schemas/verdict.schema.json — the two validated outputs.

Spawn-or-degrade. On Claude Code, spawn ScholarEval / Reviser as real Agent subagents; otherwise adopt each role inline. You are the orchestrator and the Judge.

When to use

Use when a written proposal exists and the user wants it pushed past a quality bar with literature-grounded critique. Default: run the full evaluate→grade→revise loop below. Escape hatch: if the user only wants the critique (no rewriting), run one ScholarEval + Judge pass and stop. Not for writing a proposal from a blank page, and not for a standalone literature survey.

Setup

Resolve bindings interactively. If loop.run.yaml exists in the working dir, load it and skip to the loop. Otherwise: on Claude Code (the AskUserQuestion tool is available) infer a likely value for each binding and present it as the recommended option; on other hosts ask each as a quoted plain-text prompt. Then write loop.run.yaml (format: examples/run.example.yaml) and confirm every value, <intent>, and the live/degraded literature tier before creating any other files.

Read the full file on GitHub · 147 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. 5d ago First seen · 147 lines · 112 tokens per session scan A 76e4ab854c0b

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research-proposal is a skill published in the GitHub repository gaasher/Agent-Loop-Skills (163 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 112 tokens to every session and 2,523 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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