proposal-publish

proposal-publish is a skill for Claude Code from hutzelmann/thesis-proposal-skills. It costs 100 tokens per session (1,985 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A document-building tool that turns a thesis proposal file into a PDF, with a Word document available as a fallback. Pandoc is a document converter, and Typst is a document typesetting system.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create a compact PDF from a proposal, make a stripped-down hand-in copy, or pass the build to an existing workspace script.
Why use it?
A Markdown proposal may be acceptable as a hand-in, but a PDF or Word file is often easier to email, print, or submit. This handles the conversion and explains what to do if the required tools are missing.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: ${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR} variable.

Good fit Use it to create a compact PDF from a proposal, make a stripped-down hand-in copy, or pass the build to an existing workspace script.

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

Made for: Claude Code.

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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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Per session 100 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,985 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 pass 7 Sept 2026
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 $0.00100 $0.01985
Opus 5 $0.00050 $0.00992
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.00397
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00198

Measured 6d ago against content hash 58271c2933da, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

proposal-publish 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 6d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/publish.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-publish/SKILL.md · 90 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 90 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Proposal Publish

Builds a PDF from a proposal file — compact layout, typst first, pandoc as the fallback — and can also produce a stripped hand-in export.

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.

Publishing is optional — a proposal markdown file is an acceptable hand-in on its own. Never pressure the user into installing anything; offer the paths and their costs.

Build

Run the build script (stdlib-only, ≥3.11):

python3 ${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/scripts/publish.py <proposal.md>            # PDF via best available engine
python3 ${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/scripts/publish.py <proposal.md> --handout  # stripped markdown export instead

${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR} is substituted by the host with this skill's install directory; on a host that leaves it unexpanded, the script really lives in scripts/ next to this SKILL.md, so use that path — but keep running the command from the working directory: the fallback changes where the script is found, never where you work or write. The proposal lives in the workspace's proposal location — the working directory, unless the workspace guidelines.md sets [paths] proposals to a subdirectory — and its outputs and any workspace build definition sit beside it. If you cannot find it, say the script did not run and name what is therefore unverified — never present your own reading of the file as the script's result.

The script resolves the best pipeline automatically: typst (preferred) → LaTeX enginedocx (last resort, no PDF), using the skill's templates/ (compact layout, RQ n: styling, citeproc). Outputs land next to the proposal; the script also ensures the workspace .gitignore covers build artifacts (shared rule: whichever skill first creates an ignorable artifact adds the entry).

Read the full file on GitHub · 90 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. 6d ago Changed · +2 lines 58271c2933da
  2. 10d ago First seen · 88 lines · 100 tokens per session scan A a5caa32b9ddc

Subscribe to this mod's changes

proposal-publish is a skill published in the GitHub repository hutzelmann/thesis-proposal-skills (7 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 100 tokens to every session and 1,985 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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