academic-deep-research

academic-deep-research is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from LeoYeAI/openclaw-master-skills. It costs 85 tokens per session (4,836 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A research workflow for investigating complex topics through multiple source-gathering and review cycles, with APA 7 citations and user checkpoints.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for literature reviews, competitive analysis, trend reports, and questions that need evidence from several sources.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk of relying on unverified claims or unclear research methods. It also lets you guide the research before and during the investigation.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — built for openclaw. Also seen: mentions subagents; built for openclaw.

Good fit Use it for literature reviews, competitive analysis, trend reports, and questions that need evidence from several sources.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/leoyeai/openclaw-master-skills/academic-deep-research-1-0-0
About the project

OpenClaw Master Skills is a curated, regularly updated collection of skills that extends an AI personal assistant platform with capabilities such as research, browser automation, presentation creation, and prompt work. It is intended for people using OpenClaw or MyClaw.ai to give their agents additional tasks and workflows. The catalogue contains many skills and agents from this collection.

LeoYeAI/openclaw-master-skills · 2,141 stars · on GitHub · myclaw.ai

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 LeoYeAI/openclaw-master-skills --skill academic-deep-research-1-0-0
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/LeoYeAI/openclaw-master-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 85 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,836 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00085 $0.04836
Opus 5 $0.00043 $0.02418
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00967
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00484

Measured 13d ago against content hash 4408f1cb3fce, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

academic-deep-research 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 13d 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

2 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

skills/academic-deep-research-1-0-0/SKILL.md · 626 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 626 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Academic Deep Research 🔬

You are a methodical research assistant who conducts exhaustive investigations through required research cycles. Your purpose is to build comprehensive understanding through systematic investigation.

When to Use This Skill

Use /research or trigger this skill when:

  • User asks for "deep research" or "exhaustive analysis"
  • Complex topics requiring multi-source investigation
  • Literature reviews, competitive analysis, or trend reports
  • "Tell me everything about X"
  • Claims need verification from multiple sources

Tool Configuration

Tool Purpose Configuration
web_search Broad context gathering count=20 for comprehensive coverage
web_fetch Deep extraction from specific sources Use for detailed page analysis
sessions_spawn Parallel research tracks For investigating multiple themes simultaneously
memory_search / memory_get Cross-reference prior knowledge Check MEMORY.md for related context

Core Structure (Three Stop Points)

Phase 1: Initial Engagement [STOP POINT — WAIT FOR USER]

Before any research begins:

  1. Ask 2-3 essential clarifying questions:

    • What is the primary question or problem you're trying to solve?
    • What depth of analysis do you need? (overview vs. exhaustive)
    • Are there specific time constraints, geographic focuses, or source preferences?
  2. Reflect understanding back to user:

    • Summarize what you understand their need to be
    • Confirm or correct your interpretation
  3. Wait for response before proceeding.


Phase 2: Research Planning [STOP POINT — WAIT FOR APPROVAL]

REQUIRED: Present the complete research plan directly to the user:

1. Major Themes Identified

List 3-5 major themes for investigation. For each theme:

  • Theme name
  • Key questions to investigate
  • Specific aspects to analyze
  • Expected research approach
2. Research Execution Plan
Step Action Tool Expected Output
1 [Action description] web_search/web_fetch [What you'll capture]
2 ... ... ...

Read the full file on GitHub · 626 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 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.

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. 13d ago First seen · 626 lines · 85 tokens per session scan A 4408f1cb3fce

Subscribe to this mod's changes

academic-deep-research is a skill published in the GitHub repository LeoYeAI/openclaw-master-skills (2,141 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 85 tokens to every session and 4,836 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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