academic-research-companion

academic-research-companion is a skill for Claude Code from GRCEngClub/claude-grc-engineering. It costs 173 tokens per session (1,830 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A guided workflow for academic research, from an initial idea to a research question, supporting literature, methods, writing, feedback, and publication. It is also intended to be used when developing topics or requesting sources and literature reviews.

In plain words
What is it for?
Fleshing out topics, forming research questions, reviewing literature, choosing methods, writing and revising academic work, and preparing it for publication.
Why use it?
It turns an open-ended research idea into organized steps and helps connect claims to supporting sources.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the academic-research-companion plugin — 1 skill, 1 command shipped together

Good fit Fleshing out topics, forming research questions, reviewing literature, choosing methods, writing and revising academic work, and preparing it for publication.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/grcengclub/claude-grc-engineering/academic-research-companion
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 GRCEngClub/claude-grc-engineering --skill academic-research-companion
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/GRCEngClub/claude-grc-engineering

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install academic-research-companion, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill, 1 command.

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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.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 173 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,830 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.
Origin unknown 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 $0.00173 $0.01830
Opus 5 $0.00086 $0.00915
Sonnet 5 $0.00035 $0.00366
Haiku 4.5 $0.00017 $0.00183

Measured 12d ago against content hash 2bbcbd86f1c4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

academic-research-companion 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 12d 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.

plugins/academic-research-companion/skills/academic-research-companion/SKILL.md · 71 lines

The source is not reproduced here

A licence we could not identify

The repository carries a LICENSE file, but it is custom or dual enough that GitHub cannot name it and neither can this catalogue. Unknown terms are not permission, so the body is not copied here. Read the licence at the source and decide for yourself.

Read it on GitHub

Files

What ships with it

8 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. 12d ago First seen · 71 lines · 173 tokens per session scan A 2bbcbd86f1c4

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academic-research-companion is a skill published in the GitHub repository GRCEngClub/claude-grc-engineering (400 stars, last pushed 6d ago), with no licence file. It adds 173 tokens to every session and 1,830 once invoked, about $0.0009 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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