Getting it into your agent
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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 | $0.00094 | $0.04261 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00047 | $0.02131 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00019 | $0.00852 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00009 | $0.00426 |
Grade A, and why
research-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 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 574 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Research Proposal Generator
Generate high-quality academic research proposals for PhD applications following Nature Reviews-style academic writing conventions.
Overview
This skill guides the generation of research proposals through a structured 5-phase workflow:
- Requirements Gathering - Collect research topic, domain, language preferences
- Literature Collection - Gather relevant literature from multiple sources
- Outline Generation - Create structured outline for user approval
- Content Writing - Generate full proposal based on approved outline
- Output & Review - Deliver Markdown file with quality checklist
Target Output: 2,000-4,000 words (default ~3,000 words) for PhD applications.
Phase 1: Requirements Gathering
Use AskUserQuestion to collect the following information:
Required Information
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Research Topic/Direction
- What is the core research question or area?
- Any specific problems to address?
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Academic Domain
- STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics)
- Humanities (History, Philosophy, Literature, Languages)
- Social Sciences (Sociology, Psychology, Economics, Political Science)
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Output Language
- English
- 中文 (Chinese)
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Target Word Count
- Default: 3,000 words
- Range: 2,000-4,000 words (humanities may extend to 10,000)
Optional Information
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Target Institution(s)
- University/research group names
- Specific faculty members of interest
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Existing Materials
- User's prior research or publications
- Relevant literature already collected in Zotero
Example Questions
Questions to ask the user:
1. "What is your research topic or direction? Please describe the core question or problem you want to investigate."
2. "Which academic domain does your research belong to?"
- STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics)
- Humanities (History, Philosophy, Literature)
- Social Sciences (Sociology, Psychology, Economics)
3. "What language should the proposal be written in?"
- English
- 中文 (Chinese)
4. "Do you have a target word count? (Default: ~3,000 words)"
5. "Are you applying to specific institutions or working with particular faculty?"
6. "Have you uploaded relevant literature to your Zotero library that I should reference?"
What ships with it
7 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.
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 · 574 lines · 94 tokens per session scan A 1e9eaf46d8f4
research-proposal is a skill published in the GitHub repository LeonChaoX/qinyan-academic-skills (880 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 94 tokens to every session and 4,261 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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