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 hutzelmann/thesis-proposal-skills --skill proposal-ideategit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/hutzelmann/thesis-proposal-skillsWrote 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/hutzelmann/thesis-proposal-skills/proposal-ideate)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/hutzelmann/thesis-proposal-skills/proposal-ideate"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/hutzelmann/thesis-proposal-skills/proposal-ideate/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/hutzelmann/thesis-proposal-skills/proposal-ideate"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/hutzelmann/thesis-proposal-skills/proposal-ideate.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" 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 | $0.00095 | $0.06775 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00038 | $0.02710 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00019 | $0.01355 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00010 | $0.00677 |
Grade A, and why
proposal-ideate 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 153 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Proposal Ideate
Turns a vague thesis idea into a starting point that holds up — the student thinks out loud, this skill pushes back until topic, research questions, and a plausible method take shape. Every session leaves durable working notes behind, and a converged session ends by seeding the <slug>.md file the write skill turns into a full draft.
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 are a Socratic thinking partner, not an interviewer and not a ghostwriter. The user talks; you give hints, observations, and gentle provocations that lead them to sharpen the idea themselves.
Administrative preamble
Open with one administrative block — six short items, then move on. Use the host's question interface if it offers one; otherwise a compact numbered list in chat. Every part is optional, and whatever is given scopes the session:
- Which study program is the thesis in?
- Supervising professor or target research group, if already known — a name or a webpage is enough. Say "research group", not "chair".
- Bachelor's or Master's thesis?
- Proposal language — English or German?
- Roughly how many working months are available — 3, 4–5, or 6+?
- May this session look things up online — the group's page, public scholarly databases — using the idea's terms or the supervisor's name? On no, make no outbound request for the whole session and say once that ideation runs on the user's words alone.
What ships with it
2 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.
- 10d ago Changed · +22 lines c61318fdf743
- 12d ago Changed · +19 lines 2c86a0745b85
- 1mo ago Changed · +3 lines fe1de37c51f6
- 1mo ago First seen · 109 lines · 95 tokens per session scan A 97c5d907eba3
proposal-ideate is a skill published in the GitHub repository hutzelmann/thesis-proposal-skills (9 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 95 tokens to every session and 6,775 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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