Claude Scientific Writer is an AI-assisted research and writing tool that searches literature and produces documents such as scientific papers, reports, posters, grant proposals, and reviews with citations. Researchers and technical writers can use it as a Claude Code plugin, Python package, or command-line tool, with the catalogue entries defining agent workflows for it.
Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to K-Dense-AI/claude-scientific-writer. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.
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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 | $0.00058 | $0.02916 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00029 | $0.01458 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00012 | $0.00583 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00006 | $0.00292 |
Grade A, and why
hypothesis-generation 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 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.
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.
This is a copy
100% identical to hypothesis-generation — 19 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 265 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Scientific Hypothesis Generation
Turn an observation into a transparent set of candidate explanations and tests. A hypothesis is a proposal to be challenged, not a finding, fact, diagnosis, or recommendation.
Non-negotiable boundaries
Before using unpublished, sensitive, controlled, personal, proprietary, export-controlled, or security-relevant material:
- Confirm authorization and the applicable institutional, funder, publisher, data-use, privacy, and AI policies.
- Keep the material local unless an authorized human explicitly approves a named external destination and data scope.
- Minimize inputs. Do not place sensitive or unpublished data in web searches or external AI systems without authorization.
- Stop at the appropriate human, animal, biosafety, dual-use, data-governance, or regulatory gate.
Never:
- present a hypothesis, mechanism, causal effect, citation, or apparent pattern as established evidence;
- claim novelty because a quick search found nothing;
- infer causation from association, temporal order alone, predictive accuracy, or model output;
- supply patient-specific diagnosis, treatment, dose, prognosis, or other clinical advice;
- provide harmful experimental optimization or operational detail for pathogens, toxins, weapons, evasion, or other misuse;
- bypass IRB/REC, IACUC, IBC, biosafety, dual-use, privacy, legal, or regulatory review;
- fabricate sources, identifiers, search coverage, data, results, approvals, or preregistration;
- automatically score, rank, select, accept, or reject scientific hypotheses.
If a request crosses a safety gate, produce only a high-level risk/oversight note and route it to the qualified local authority. Do not continue with operational detail.
Keep the objects distinct
| Object | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Observation | What was measured, noticed, or reported, with provenance and uncertainty |
| Research question | The answerable question that defines scope |
| Hypothesis | A candidate explanatory or relational proposition |
| Mechanism | The proposed process connecting conditions to an outcome |
| Causal estimand | The precisely defined causal contrast to estimate |
| Prediction | An observable implication derived before checking the target result |
| Alternative explanation | A rival account, including bias or non-causal explanations |
| Null hypothesis | A specified no-effect/no-difference model used by an analysis |
| Negative control | A control expected not to operate through the proposed mechanism |
| Operationalization | How a construct becomes a variable, measurement, intervention, or category |
| Analysis plan | Prespecified transformations, models, contrasts, uncertainty, and decision rules |
| Evidence | Observations or sources that bear on a claim; never the claim itself |
What ships with it
26 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.
- assets/evidence_ledger_template.csv 581 B
- assets/falsification_controls_template.json 5.7 KB
- assets/hypothesis_record_template.json 13 KB
- assets/operationalization_template.json 2.2 KB
- assets/prediction_rival_matrix_template.csv 1.6 KB
- assets/preregistration_scaffold_template.md 4.9 KB
- assets/search_boundary_template.json 1.1 KB
- assets/source_ledger.csv 12 KB
- references/causal_inference_and_claims.md 7.6 KB
- references/concepts_and_workflow.md 7.2 KB
- references/ethics_safety_and_ai.md 9.7 KB
- references/experimental_design_patterns.md 9.5 KB
- references/hypothesis_quality_criteria.md 7.8 KB
- references/literature_search_strategies.md 7.9 KB
- references/preregistration_and_open_science.md 6.6 KB
- references/security_validation.md 3.6 KB
- references/source_ledger.md 7.2 KB
- references/tool_reference.md 7.9 KB
- scripts/_common.py 14 KB runs code
- scripts/audit_evidence_ledger.py 12 KB runs code
- scripts/check_falsification_controls.py 16 KB runs code
- scripts/check_operationalization.py 7.9 KB runs code
- scripts/generate_preregistration_scaffold.py 14 KB runs code
- scripts/lint_causal_claims.py 6.6 KB runs code
- scripts/validate_hypothesis_schema.py 38 KB runs code
- scripts/validate_prediction_matrix.py 9.6 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 · 265 lines · 58 tokens per session scan A 039881416522
hypothesis-generation is a skill published in the GitHub repository K-Dense-AI/claude-scientific-writer (2,324 stars, last pushed 23d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 58 tokens to every session and 2,916 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to hypothesis-generation, differing in 19 lines, and is treated as a copy.
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