thesis-proposal

thesis-proposal is a skill for Claude Code from KhaledSaeed18/dotclaude. It costs 91 tokens per session (945 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A master's thesis proposal drafting guide based on your research question, reading notes, available sources, department template, and practical constraints. It covers the problem, research gap, method, evaluation, timeline, risks, and chapter plan.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to draft or revise a proposal that a supervisor can assess for research value, feasibility, evidence, timing, and method.
Why use it?
It keeps the proposal grounded in sources and resources you actually have, rather than invented references or an unclear plan.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter.

Part of the thesis plugin — 21 skills, 3 commands, 2 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to draft or revise a proposal that a supervisor can assess for research value, feasibility, evidence, timing, and method.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/khaledsaeed18/dotclaude/thesis-proposal
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 KhaledSaeed18/dotclaude --skill thesis-proposal
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/KhaledSaeed18/dotclaude

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install thesis, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 21 skills, 3 commands, 2 agents.

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Per session 91 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 945 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 $0.00091 $0.00945
Opus 5.5 $0.00036 $0.00378
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00018 $0.00189
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00094

Measured 25d ago against content hash 855bd73e80f6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

thesis-proposal 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 25d 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.

.claude-plugin/plugins/thesis/skills/thesis-proposal/SKILL.md · 43 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 43 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Produce a proposal a supervisor can approve: specific about what will be done, honest about what is uncertain, and short. A proposal is a contract for the coming months, not a literature review; every section exists to let a reader judge feasibility and value.

Inputs to gather first

Read before writing. Ask only for what is missing:

  1. The research question record (research/QUESTION.md or wherever research-question wrote it). If none exists, run that skill's process first; do not invent a question.
  2. The department's proposal template or page limit, if any. Follow its section names exactly. A proposal that ignores the template gets sent back on form before anyone reads the content.
  3. Reading notes produced by paper-reader (research/notes/*.md) and the .bib file. Cite only sources present there. A proposal with an invented reference is worse than one with a gap.
  4. Constraints: submission date, defence date, supervisor meeting cadence, available compute or data, ethics requirements.

Structure (adapt names to the template)

  1. Title: descriptive, no colon-subtitle unless the template expects one, under 15 words.
  2. Problem statement (one to two paragraphs): the practical or scientific problem, who has it, why it matters now. Concrete, with one or two figures or citations that show the problem is real.
  3. Background and gap (one page): the three to six most relevant lines of prior work, what they established, and the specific thing they leave open. This is a targeted argument for the gap, not a survey; the full literature review is a chapter, not a proposal section.
  4. Research questions: the primary question and sub-questions, verbatim from the record.
  5. Method: for each sub-question, what will be done to answer it. Name the design (experiment, case study, design science, survey, systematic review), the data (source, size, access status), the procedure, and the analysis. State what would count as a negative result.
  6. Evaluation and validity: how results will be judged, what the threats to validity are (internal, external, construct, conclusion) and what is done about each.
  7. Expected contribution: one paragraph, the same sentence as the record expanded with what artifacts result (a dataset, a tool, a model, a set of findings).
  8. Timeline: a table of phases with start and end weeks, milestones, and the supervisor checkpoints. Back-load writing time: at least the final quarter is writing and revision. Include the buffer explicitly.
  9. Risks: table of risk, likelihood, impact, mitigation. Data access and ethics approval are almost always the top two.
  10. Chapter plan: chapter titles with one line each and a target page count. Total should match the department norm (often 60 to 100 pages for a master's).
  11. References: only entries in the .bib.

Read the full file on GitHub · 43 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. 25d ago First seen · 43 lines · 91 tokens per session scan A 855bd73e80f6

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thesis-proposal is a skill published in the GitHub repository KhaledSaeed18/dotclaude (5 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 91 tokens to every session and 945 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-09-22.

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