surveying-prior-work

surveying-prior-work is a skill for Claude Code from K-Dense-AI/science-superpowers. It costs 40 tokens per session (743 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A review of earlier research and results related to a question. It helps establish what is already known before new analysis begins.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after forming a research question, before designing an analysis, when selecting a method, when judging novelty, or when preparing a power calculation.
Why use it?
It reduces duplicated work and helps choose methods, assess whether a finding is new, and estimate the expected size of an effect for planning a study.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the science-superpowers plugin — 16 skills, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit Use it after forming a research question, before designing an analysis, when selecting a method, when judging novelty, or when preparing a power calculation.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/k-dense-ai/science-superpowers/surveying-prior-work
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 K-Dense-AI/science-superpowers --skill surveying-prior-work
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/K-Dense-AI/science-superpowers

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install science-superpowers, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 16 skills, 1 hook.

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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Per session 40 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 743 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 unknown 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 $0.00040 $0.00743
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.00371
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00149
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00074

Measured 12d ago against content hash e502b4b1e4b8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

surveying-prior-work 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 12d 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/surveying-prior-work/SKILL.md · 55 lines

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.

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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. 12d ago First seen · 55 lines · 40 tokens per session scan A e502b4b1e4b8

Subscribe to this mod's changes

surveying-prior-work is a skill published in the GitHub repository K-Dense-AI/science-superpowers (328 stars, last pushed 9d ago), with no licence file. It adds 40 tokens to every session and 743 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-30.

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