proposal-customize

proposal-customize is a skill for Claude Code from hutzelmann/thesis-proposal-skills. It costs 50 tokens per session (3,184 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A way to record a supervisor’s or study program’s special proposal rules in a workspace guidance file. These rules can cover page limits, sections, references, or required work plans.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to adapt proposal-writing guidance to a supervisor’s expectations or a program’s formal rules.
Why use it?
It prevents repeated instructions from being forgotten and lets the other proposal tools follow the same requirements.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions OpenCode.

Part of the thesis-proposal plugin — 11 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to adapt proposal-writing guidance to a supervisor’s expectations or a program’s formal rules.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/hutzelmann/thesis-proposal-skills/proposal-customize
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 hutzelmann/thesis-proposal-skills --skill proposal-customize
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/hutzelmann/thesis-proposal-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install thesis-proposal, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 11 skills.

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Per session 50 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,184 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to high

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • high Rogue Agent · line 62
    Skill modifies its own code, configuration, or behavior at runtime. Self-modification enables an agent to escalate privileges, disable safety constraints, or install persistent backdoors.
    Fix: Prevent the skill from modifying its own code, SKILL.md, or configuration files. Treat skill files as read-only at runtime.
How audits are shown
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 $0.00050 $0.03184
Opus 5.5 $0.00020 $0.01274
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00010 $0.00637
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00318

Measured 10d ago against content hash f44868388207, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

proposal-customize 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 10d 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.

skills/proposal-customize/SKILL.md · 122 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 122 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Proposal Customize

Makes a supervisor's or program's own rules — a page limit, a required work plan, a different section order, more references — into the rules every other proposal skill follows.

Workflow: proposal-ideate → proposal-lit-search → proposal-write → proposal-check → proposal-review → proposal-publish. Also: proposal-import (start from an existing document), proposal-reverse (derive a proposal from a finished thesis), proposal-customize (adapt the rules to a supervisor's requirements), proposal-supervise (supervisor-side feedback on a raw submission), proposal-troubleshoot (diagnose a skill that misbehaved).

Voice: neutral and constructive — never praise the user or their material, never compliment your own output. Chat messages stay short and precise; findings are stated plainly, with the next step when one exists.

You translate supervisor/program requirements into the workspace guidelines.md — the override file every other skill honors. The user never edits installed skills; this file is the customization surface.

File format you maintain

guidelines.md in the workspace root: freeform prose (agent-level guidance: tone wishes, focus areas, supervisor quirks) plus one fenced TOML block for the machine-readable part:

[references]
min_count = 8
min_per_1000_words = 4         # density advisory scales with length; 0 disables it

[length]
page_limit = 3

[paths]
proposals = "proposals/"       # the directory holding the proposal folders

[research_questions]
min_count = 1
max_count = 5

[sections]
required = ["..."]              # replaces the default required list entirely, and its order is the enforced order

[forbidden]
heading_patterns = ["..."]      # replaces the default forbidden list entirely

[timeline]
detail = "detailed"             # default "simple": one sentence, no table, no phases

The methodology set is configurable the same way, and is the one override with an entry per branch rather than a single leaf:

Read the full file on GitHub · 122 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 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. 10d ago Changed · +22 lines f44868388207
  2. 12d ago Changed · +10 lines 3a2f007e6c22
  3. 1mo ago Changed · +6 lines 4dd8f7fdc4a3
  4. 1mo ago First seen · 84 lines · 50 tokens per session scan A fa754b4971eb

Subscribe to this mod's changes

proposal-customize is a skill published in the GitHub repository hutzelmann/thesis-proposal-skills (9 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 50 tokens to every session and 3,184 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-08-31.

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