Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to joshzyj/open-scholar-skill. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/joshzyj/open-scholar-skill/main/.claude/skills/scholar-auto-research/SKILL.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/joshzyj/open-scholar-skillWrote 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/joshzyj/open-scholar-skill/scholar-auto-research)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/joshzyj/open-scholar-skill/scholar-auto-research"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/joshzyj/open-scholar-skill/scholar-auto-research/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/joshzyj/open-scholar-skill/scholar-auto-research"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/joshzyj/open-scholar-skill/scholar-auto-research.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 | $0.00061 | $0.18822 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00030 | $0.09411 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00012 | $0.03764 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00006 | $0.01882 |
Grade B, and why
scholar-auto-research scanned grade B with 1 finding 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 11d 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.
Reads agent configuration directoriesmediumAgent snooping
.claude/, .codex/, .gemini/ hold keys, settings and other credentials a mod has no legitimate need for.
`<proj>/.codex/config.toml`. This host adapter is safety integration, not the The source is not reproduced here
A licence we could not identify
The repository carries a LICENSE file, but it is custom or dual enough that GitHub cannot name it and neither can this catalogue. Unknown terms are not permission, so the body is not copied here. Read the licence at the source and decide for yourself.
What ships with it
60 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.
- references/agent-trace-contract.md 3.0 KB
- references/analysis-plan-contract.md 9.1 KB
- references/analysis-premortem-contract.md 7.8 KB
- references/artifact-contract.md 690 B
- references/citation-claim-contract.md 5.6 KB
- references/contract-migrations.json 2.1 KB
- references/data-measurement-contract.md 6.4 KB
- references/data-safety-runtime.md 2.7 KB
- references/design-contract.md 9.3 KB
- references/documentation-registry.json 1.9 KB
- references/ethics-open-science-contract.md 4.4 KB
- references/execution-contract.md 14 KB
- references/final-assembly-contract.md 8.7 KB
- references/journal-profile-resolution-templates.json 21 KB
- references/literature-theory-contract.md 6.2 KB
- references/manuscript-blueprint-contract.md 13 KB
- references/manuscript-drafting-contract.md 42 KB
- references/phase-contract.json 35 KB
- references/phase-contract.md 2.3 KB
- references/post-execution-review-contract.md 5.8 KB
- references/pre-execution-review-contract.md 6.7 KB
- references/process-logger.md 7.6 KB
- references/quality-gate.md 19 KB
- references/replication-contract.md 3.2 KB
- references/research-question-contract.md 7.3 KB
- references/results-lock-contract.md 4.3 KB
- references/review-evidence-contract.md 7.7 KB
- references/runtime-dependencies.json 2.6 KB
- references/runtime-sanity-contract.md 4.0 KB
- references/skill-routing-contract.md 5.9 KB
- references/state-contract.md 8.5 KB
- references/submission-hygiene-contract.md 12 KB
- references/verification-contract.md 12 KB
- references/viz_setting.R 13 KB
- references/weighted-survey-registry.json 8.9 KB
- scripts/auto-research-contract-lint.sh 9.6 KB runs code
- scripts/auto-research-fixture-test.sh 684 KB runs code
- scripts/auto-research-publication-quality-fixture-test.sh 24 KB runs code
- scripts/auto-research-state.sh 71 KB runs code
- scripts/auto-research-system-gate-smoke.sh 7.8 KB runs code
- scripts/auto-research-verify.sh 715 KB runs code
- scripts/detect-host-agent.sh 2.8 KB runs code
- scripts/emit-journal-profile-resolution.py 6.2 KB runs code
- scripts/gates/_phase5-skill-resolver.sh 2.5 KB runs code
- scripts/gates/_section-role-helper.py 24 KB runs code
- scripts/gates/abstract-boilerplate-check.sh 6.2 KB runs code
- scripts/gates/analytic-formula-specificity-check.sh 23 KB runs code
- scripts/gates/analytic-strategy-quality-check.sh 5.1 KB runs code
- scripts/gates/build-run-model.py 116 KB runs code
- scripts/gates/citation-cluster-quality-check.sh 3.9 KB runs code
- scripts/gates/codex-pretooluse-hook.sh 3.6 KB runs code
- scripts/gates/codex-trigger-check.sh 7.5 KB runs code
- scripts/gates/codex-trigger-phase14.sh 809 B runs code
- scripts/gates/codex-trigger-phase6.sh 804 B runs code
- scripts/gates/composite-measure-validation-check.sh 7.4 KB runs code
- scripts/gates/concept-to-measure-check.sh 12 KB runs code
- scripts/gates/conclusion-contribution-support-check.sh 192 B runs code
- scripts/gates/control-variables-check.sh 11 KB runs code
- scripts/gates/cross-section-continuity-check.sh 192 B runs code
- scripts/gates/data-sample-flow-check.sh 10 KB runs code
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.
- 11d ago First seen · 754 lines · 61 tokens per session scan B 363cab74d926
scholar-auto-research is a skill published in the GitHub repository joshzyj/open-scholar-skill (145 stars, last pushed 3d ago), with no licence file. It adds 61 tokens to every session and 18,822 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (reads agent configuration directories). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.
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