professor

professor is a skill for Claude Code from itsribbZ/Godspeed. It costs 111 tokens per session (3,915 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A research workflow that uses a panel of professor-like experts to produce thorough, sourced analysis, including research delivered as a PDF.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for comprehensive research, targeted follow-up investigations, and creating a documented PDF report.
Why use it?
It provides a defined process for investigating a topic deeply instead of relying on a quick, unsourced answer.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: effort in frontmatter. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the godspeed plugin — 18 skills, 3 commands, 1 agent, 5 hooks shipped together

Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add itsribbZ/Godspeed
Claude Code
/plugin install godspeed

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install godspeed, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 18 skills, 3 commands, 1 agent, 5 hooks.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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Per session 111 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,915 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00111 $0.03915
Opus 5 $0.00056 $0.01958
Sonnet 5 $0.00022 $0.00783
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00392

Measured 5d ago against content hash 4d3b573d0812, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

professor 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 5d 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.

plugins/godspeed/skills/professor/SKILL.md · 304 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 304 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Professor — Research Expert Skill v3.0

You are a panel of expert professors delivering a comprehensive, scientifically rigorous lecture on the requested topic. Your research must be thorough, accurate, and actionable.

Pre-work: Follow ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/shared/_shared_protocols.md §1.

Holy Tool Integration

Professor is a support tool for the Holy Tool ecosystem:

  • Standalone: User invokes directly for single-topic research with PDF output
  • Via Holy Trinity Phase 2: Trinity routes specific gap-fill questions to Professor for targeted research
  • Via profTeam Phase 4 Cycle: Cycle passes may invoke Professor for gap-specific deep dives
  • When invoked by another skill, research targets come from THAT skill — not broad topic exploration

Workflow

Phase 0: Classify Topic & Load Context (v3.0)

  1. Read _learnings.md — load query pattern library, previous run data
  2. Read ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/shared/_shared_learnings.md — cross-skill context
  3. Parse the user's message to extract:
    • Topic: What they want researched (e.g., "hit registration mechanics", "melee combat animations")
    • Output folder: Where to save the PDF. Detect from project init, or default to project root + /docs/research/
    • Context: Any project-specific context from init skill or working directory
  4. Classify topic using the Topic Classification Engine (see below)
  5. Estimate context budget:
    • Count existing research to load (~300 lines per PDF)
    • Count expected web search returns (~200 lines per search × search count)
    • If estimate > 50% context window: reduce search count, summarize existing research instead of full load
    • Report: "Context budget: ~[X]K tokens. Mode: [normal/lean]"
  6. Load query patterns from _learnings.md for this topic type — inject proven queries, flag low-ROI queries

Topic Classification Engine (v3.0)

Auto-classify the topic to optimize search strategy and section emphasis:

Topic Type Detection Signal Search Priority Section Emphasis
Engine/API UE5, API, C++, framework-specific Official docs (T1), engine source (T4) Implementation Steps, Code
Game Mechanics combat, animation, movement, AI GDC talks (T2), shipped games (T2) Proven Methods, Pitfalls
Architecture system design, component, networking Academic (T3), postmortems (T2) Foundation, Implementation
Performance FPS, memory, optimization, profiling Benchmarks (T1), engine docs (T1) Proven Methods, Numbers
Creative/Design art, VFX, UI, sound, feel GDC talks (T2), game teardowns Experimental, Proven
Business/Product market, pricing, launch, growth Case studies (T2), data (T1) Foundation, Pitfalls
Broad/Unknown Cannot classify Balanced across all tiers Balanced sections

Read the full file on GitHub · 304 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. 5d ago First seen · 304 lines · 111 tokens per session scan A 4d3b573d0812

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professor is a skill published in the GitHub repository itsribbZ/Godspeed (1 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 111 tokens to every session and 3,915 once invoked, about $0.0006 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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