proposal-import

proposal-import is a skill for Claude Code from hutzelmann/thesis-proposal-skills. It costs 71 tokens per session (2,998 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A tool for bringing an existing thesis proposal from PDF, Word, LaTeX, Overleaf, or pasted text into one Markdown file. It carries over references, removes personal data, and marks missing information.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to import an existing proposal into the workspace and continue editing it in the standard format.
Why use it?
It avoids retyping an old proposal and makes gaps visible instead of silently losing them.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: ${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR} variable.

Good fit Use it to import an existing proposal into the workspace and continue editing it in the standard format.

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

Made for: Claude Code.

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README.md
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Per session 71 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,998 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: 4 findings, 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 95
    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.
  • high Rogue Agent · line 99
    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.
  • high Rogue Agent · line 99
    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.
  • high Rogue Agent · line 153
    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 $0.00071 $0.02998
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.01499
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00600
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00300

Measured 4d ago against content hash 38d6db2ee9f9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

proposal-import 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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 4 executable files (scripts/check.py, scripts/common.py, scripts/crossref.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.

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-import/SKILL.md · 160 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 160 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Proposal Import

Brings a proposal that already exists — PDF, Word, LaTeX — into this workspace as one markdown file, with its references carried across and every gap the source left behind marked rather than silently dropped.

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.

Convert an existing proposal document into one <slug>.md in the workspace's proposal location — the working directory, unless the workspace guidelines.md sets [paths] proposals to a subdirectory — in the standard format: a leading # <title> line as the only H1, the subtitle as an emphasized *…* paragraph, the canonical sections at ##, a closing references heading, and a trailing --- metadata block (blank line before it) with references in CSL-YAML. Never carry an author key over from the source — proposals are anonymous.

Execution shape

One reader, one file: you read the source once, map its content onto the canonical sections, convert the references, and write <slug>.md and the notes file yourself, all in this one context — never one helper agent per section, per reference, per citation, or per figure, because reordering into canonical order and the personal-data strip need the whole document in view, every helper would read the source again, and both files have one writer.

The shape you must produce

A source document rarely resembles the target, so write the target from this shape rather than from the source's structure:

Read the full file on GitHub · 160 lines

Files

What ships with it

6 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. 4d ago Changed · +9 lines 38d6db2ee9f9
  2. 8d ago First seen · 151 lines · 71 tokens per session scan A 8833d02cd4a9

Subscribe to this mod's changes

proposal-import is a skill published in the GitHub repository hutzelmann/thesis-proposal-skills (7 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 71 tokens to every session and 2,998 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-08-31.

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