hep-workflow: Skill for Claude Code

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hep-idea is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from huangzhonglv/hep-workflow. It costs 128 tokens per session (6,512 once invoked), scanned C, original, MIT.

A research-idea generator for particle-physics phenomenology, the study of how theories could produce observable experimental effects.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps create a research proposal, formalize the model, record experimental constraints, define calculation tasks, and prepare benchmark formulas for checking calculations.
Why use it?
It turns a broad research direction into a more specific project foundation instead of leaving the proposal at the level of vague topics.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents); mentions Codex.

This is huangzhonglv/hep-workflow's own configuration. It tells Claude Code and Codex how to work on hep-workflow itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything hep-workflow configures →

Needs its repository: it runs a file that does not travel with it, so clone the repository first. The line is python scripts/init_foundation_attempt.py \.

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to huangzhonglv/hep-workflow. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/huangzhonglv/hep-workflow/main/.agents/skills/hep-idea/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/huangzhonglv/hep-workflow

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 128 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 6,512 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 $0.00128 $0.06512
Opus 5.5 $0.00051 $0.02605
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00026 $0.01302
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00651

Measured 2mo ago against content hash d687125eb188, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

hep-idea scanned grade C with 1 finding 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 2mo ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/init_project_skeleton.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

Tells the agent never to refusehighAnti-refusal

Suppressing the ability to decline removes a core safety control; a later harmful request then succeeds.

- **User gives a very vague direction** (e.g., "I want to do BSM"): Don't refuse. Consult `references/research-directions.md`, pick 3 diverse sub-topics, and present them as the candidate ideas.
.agents/skills/hep-idea/SKILL.md · 495 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 495 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

HEP Idea Generator

Generate concrete, publishable research proposals for particle physics phenomenology. The goal is not to produce vague directions, but specific, well-scoped problems that can realistically lead to a paper.

Step 1: Determine the idea source strategy

Before generating ideas, ask the user which approach they want for this session. Present these three strategies and let them pick:

Strategy A - Experiment-driven: Start from a recent experimental anomaly or new data release (e.g., a tension in B-meson measurements, a new LHC search limit, updated neutrino oscillation data). The idea addresses the anomaly with a concrete model or reinterprets new bounds in an existing framework.

Strategy B - Theory-driven: Start from a theoretical model or mechanism and explore its phenomenological consequences in a region that hasn't been fully studied (e.g., extending a known Z' model to the lepton sector, combining a seesaw mechanism with a particular dark matter candidate).

Strategy C - Gap-driven: Start from an open question or gap identified in existing literature (e.g., "nobody has computed the one-loop correction to this process", "the interplay between constraints X and Y in this model class hasn't been mapped out").

If the user has already indicated a preference in their message (e.g., "there's a new anomaly in muon g-2, let's build a model for it"), skip the strategy question and proceed directly.

Step 2: Gather context

Based on the chosen strategy, collect the necessary inputs:

  • Strategy A: Ask what anomaly or dataset. If the user doesn't have one in mind, consult references/research-directions.md for current hot topics and suggest 2-5 recent experimental results worth investigating.

  • Strategy B: Ask what model or mechanism to start from. If vague, consult references/research-directions.md and suggest 2-5 model frameworks with unexplored phenomenological territory.

  • Strategy C: Ask what area to look for gaps. If the user has a previous project (check workspace/projects/ for completed projects), offer to read its conclusions and derive follow-up questions from there.

Read the full file on GitHub · 495 lines

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. 2mo ago First seen · 495 lines · 128 tokens per session scan C d687125eb188

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hep-idea is a skill published in the GitHub repository huangzhonglv/hep-workflow (9 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 128 tokens to every session and 6,512 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it C with 1 finding (tells the agent never to refuse). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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