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 webapp-testinggit 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/webapp-testing)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/galaxy-dawn/claude-scholar/webapp-testing"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/galaxy-dawn/claude-scholar/webapp-testing.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" 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 | $0.00035 | $0.00894 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00017 | $0.00447 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00007 | $0.00179 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00003 | $0.00089 |
Grade A, and why
webapp-testing 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 4d 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.
This is a copy
98% identical to webapp-testing — 4 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 98 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Web Application Testing
To test local web applications, write native Python Playwright scripts.
Helper Scripts Available:
scripts/with_server.py- Manages server lifecycle (supports multiple servers)
Always run scripts with --help first to see usage. DO NOT read the source until you try running the script first and find that a customized solution is abslutely necessary. These scripts can be very large and thus pollute your context window. They exist to be called directly as black-box scripts rather than ingested into your context window.
Decision Tree: Choosing Your Approach
User task → Is it static HTML?
├─ Yes → Read HTML file directly to identify selectors
│ ├─ Success → Write Playwright script using selectors
│ └─ Fails/Incomplete → Treat as dynamic (below)
│
└─ No (dynamic webapp) → Is the server already running?
├─ No → Run: python scripts/with_server.py --help
│ Then use the helper + write simplified Playwright script
│
└─ Yes → Reconnaissance-then-action:
1. Navigate and wait for networkidle
2. Take screenshot or inspect DOM
3. Identify selectors from rendered state
4. Execute actions with discovered selectors
Example: Using with_server.py
To start a server, run --help first, then use the helper:
Single server:
python scripts/with_server.py --server "npm run dev" --port 5173 -- python your_automation.py
Multiple servers (e.g., backend + frontend):
python scripts/with_server.py \
--server "cd backend && python server.py" --port 3000 \
--server "cd frontend && npm run dev" --port 5173 \
-- python your_automation.py
To create an automation script, include only Playwright logic (servers are managed automatically):
from playwright.sync_api import sync_playwright
with sync_playwright() as p:
browser = p.chromium.launch(headless=True) # Always launch chromium in headless mode
page = browser.new_page()
page.goto('http://localhost:5173') # Server already running and ready
page.wait_for_load_state('networkidle') # CRITICAL: Wait for JS to execute
# ... your automation logic
browser.close()
What ships with it
5 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.
- 4d ago First seen · 98 lines · 35 tokens per session scan A e01a5c5567dd
webapp-testing is a skill published in the GitHub repository Galaxy-Dawn/claude-scholar (5,349 stars, last pushed 11d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 35 tokens to every session and 894 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 98% identical to webapp-testing, differing in 4 lines, and is treated as a copy.
Other skills, from other repositories
webapp-testing
Toolkit for interacting with and testing local web applications using Playwright. Supports verifying frontend functionality, debugging UI behavior, capturing browser screenshots, and viewing browser logs.
memstack-development-webapp-testing
Use when the user says 'write browser tests', 'test this page', 'playwright test', 'e2e test', 'end to end test', 'browser test', 'test the UI', or needs Playwright-based browser testing for a web application. Do NOT use for unit tests, API tests, or non-browser testing.
e2e
Generate and run Playwright E2E tests traced to spec.md acceptance criteria, with an optional accessibility audit. Use when saying "e2e tests" or "a11y audit".
chrome-automation
A browser-automation toolkit for controlling Chrome to visit pages, interact with forms, collect data, run tests, and create screenshots or PDFs.
browser-check
Drive a real browser and come back with a MEASUREMENT rather than an impression - console errors and >=400 responses as counts, computed styles as JSON when appearance is disputed. Use when work touches UI, when a review must verify one, or when fidelity-gate asks for its measurement.
playwright-automation
Browser automation and testing with Playwright. Use when testing web applications, automating browser tasks, taking screenshots, or validating UI behavior.