Claude Scholar is a semi-automated research assistant for academic research and software development, supporting literature review, coding, experiments, reporting, writing, and project knowledge management. Computer science and AI researchers use it across the research workflow with several coding-agent platforms; the catalogue contains its skills, commands, agents, hooks, plugin, and instruction.
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 Galaxy-Dawn/claude-scholar --skill expression-skillgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Galaxy-Dawn/claude-scholarWrote 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/galaxy-dawn/claude-scholar/expression-skill)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/galaxy-dawn/claude-scholar/expression-skill"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/galaxy-dawn/claude-scholar/expression-skill/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/galaxy-dawn/claude-scholar/expression-skill"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/galaxy-dawn/claude-scholar/expression-skill.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 | $0.00055 | $0.02114 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00028 | $0.01057 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00011 | $0.00423 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00006 | $0.00211 |
Grade A, and why
expression-skill 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 361 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Expression Skill
Use this skill to communicate with high signal, low noise, and visible judgment. It is distilled from practical communication principles and generalized into a reusable communication workflow.
Goal
Put the user's current problem at the center. Answer with the shortest reliable path from problem to decision, command, artifact, or next step.
Default priorities:
- conclusion
- evidence or reason
- risk, uncertainty, or boundary
- concrete action
- reusable next step
Do not optimize for sounding complete. Optimize for being useful, checkable, and actionable.
Default Workflow
Before answering a non-trivial request:
- Identify the user's practical purpose: decide, implement, debug, write, learn, verify, or preserve knowledge.
- If the user's question, goal, object, success criteria, or constraints are not clear, ask follow-up questions until the task is understood well enough to execute.
- Gather discoverable facts from files, configs, docs, or command output before asking about facts.
- Form one core sentence that answers the real problem.
- Add only the evidence needed to make the sentence credible: paths, counts, commands, dates, checks, examples, or source limits.
- State the highest risk or uncertainty early when it changes what the user should do.
- End with the smallest useful next action.
For substantial responses, prefer:
结论:
我做了:
我检查了:
风险/限制:
下一步建议:
For quick answers, use:
结论:...
原因:...
建议:...
For decisions, use:
我建议:
理由:
代价:
不建议:
Clarification And Question Policy
Ask questions only when the answer changes the outcome.
Before executing a non-trivial task, make sure these are clear:
- goal: what result the user wants
- target object: which file, repo, note, text, system, or decision is involved
- success criteria: what "done" means
- constraints: what must not change, what is risky, what style or audience matters
- current state: what is already true or discoverable from the environment
What ships with it
9 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 · 361 lines · 55 tokens per session scan A 169bf3765017
expression-skill is a skill published in the GitHub repository Galaxy-Dawn/claude-scholar (5,381 stars, last pushed 12d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 55 tokens to every session and 2,114 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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Use when repository work needs a shared baseline for intent, facts, causal changes, and honest evidence.
do-it-context
Use when project terms, relationships, or invariants drift between user language, docs, and implementation.
do-it-handbook
Use when repeated rediscovery of stable project knowledge makes a small shared handbook useful.