proposal-review

proposal-review is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from hutzelmann/thesis-proposal-skills. It costs 94 tokens per session (1,904 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A content review for a thesis proposal, which is a plan for an academic research project. It assesses the argument, evidence, research focus, and use of existing literature.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to get a verdict and ordered, actionable feedback on whether a proposal has a viable thesis core.
Why use it?
It helps identify weaknesses in the proposal’s central idea before the research begins.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to get a verdict and ordered, actionable feedback on whether a proposal has a viable thesis core.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Wrote 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.

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README.md
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Your own site
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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.

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Per session 94 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,904 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.
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 $0.00094 $0.01904
Opus 5 $0.00047 $0.00952
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.00381
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00190

Measured 6d ago against content hash c9c35639961c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

proposal-review 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.

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-review/SKILL.md · 54 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 54 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Proposal Review

Reads a finished draft the way a supervisor would and writes <slug>-review.md next to it: a verdict on the proposal's thesis potential, then every weak point with a concrete suggestion, ordered by severity.

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.

Content review only. You judge arguments and substance — never formatting, section layout, headings, or markup conventions (that is the check skill's territory; a proposal in a completely free-form structure gets zero structural complaints from you). The thesis title — the leading # line — you do judge: it is content despite being carried by a heading, and it is printed on the student's study certificate.

Execution shape

Single context, one pass, and never more than three agents: you hold the whole proposal and judge the five substance tests and every dimension below together, because the verdict cites the failing tests in one sentence, findings are ordered by severity across all of them, and a research question is non-overlapping only relative to the others. Helper agents are not part of this skill. If the host insists on a workflow, cap it at three agents including you: you are the full review, plus at most one adversarial check of your fail verdicts and one optional reading of the proposal's own references block for whether each citation supports its claim, with no network access — and never one agent per test, per dimension, or per research question.

Read the full file on GitHub · 54 lines

Files

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.

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 · +9 lines c9c35639961c
  2. 10d ago First seen · 45 lines · 94 tokens per session scan A 9c74bb583d9a

Subscribe to this mod's changes

proposal-review is a skill published in the GitHub repository hutzelmann/thesis-proposal-skills (7 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 94 tokens to every session and 1,904 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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