setup

setup is a skill for Claude Code from mronkko/claude-academic-research. It costs 115 tokens per session (3,020 once invoked), scanned B, original, MIT.

A terminal wizard for configuring an academic-research project, including API keys, helper servers, and the language-model provider.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to set up or rotate service keys, register research-data servers, change the language-model provider, or update permission rules.
Why use it?
It checks and prepares the connections needed by the research tools before they are used.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} variable. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions Claude Code.

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the academic-research plugin — 11 skills, 1 plugin shipped together

Good fit Use it to set up or rotate service keys, register research-data servers, change the language-model provider, or update permission rules.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add mronkko/claude-academic-research
Claude Code
/plugin install academic-research

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install academic-research, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 11 skills, 1 plugin.

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README.md
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Per session 115 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,020 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. 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 $0.00115 $0.03020
Opus 5 $0.00057 $0.01510
Sonnet 5 $0.00023 $0.00604
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00302

Measured 8d ago against content hash a79b4e99f0de, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

setup scanned grade B with 1 finding 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 8d 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.

Reads agent configuration directoriesmediumAgent snooping

.claude/, .codex/, .gemini/ hold keys, settings and other credentials a mod has no legitimate need for.

- **Settings patched:** `~/.claude/settings.json` (backed up as `.bak-wizard`, bypassed silently if not running under Claude).
skills/setup/SKILL.md · 235 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 235 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

setup

Quick definitions (T4-5; full glossary at skills/_glossary.md):

  • A plugin is the code bundle this setup is configuring — a downloadable package shipped with skills, pipeline scripts, and templates that the agentic environment uses for academic-research work.
  • A skill is a prose rule-book the agent loads when your request matches its trigger phrases. Skills tell the agent how to approach a task; they don't run code on their own. setup, zotero- operations, systematic-review, etc. are all skills in this plugin.
  • An MCP server is a small helper program the agent talks to in the background. Example: the Zotero MCP server lets the agent read and update your Zotero library directly. The wizard checks five MCP servers (Zotero, Scopus, Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex, paper-search) and offers to register the missing ones.

Setup runs as a terminal wizard the user executes. The agent's role is only to give them the command and confirm when they are done. Do not run any tool calls — no Bash, no Read, no probes. All the information needed is already known:

  • Wizard path: ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/setup/wizard.py (or project-relative ./scripts/setup/wizard.py if not running inside Claude Code or Antigravity) — The active plugin version's absolute path (or project-relative fallback if ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} is not defined) is used, so the user has a concrete path to run.
  • Config written to: ~/.config/academic-research/config.toml (mode 0600).
  • Settings patched: ~/.claude/settings.json (backed up as .bak-wizard, bypassed silently if not running under Claude).
  • Antigravity MCP config: if Antigravity (agy) is detected, the same MCP servers are also registered into ~/.gemini/config/mcp_config.json (backed up as .bak-wizard). Permission rules are not patched for Antigravity — only Claude Code's ~/.claude/settings.json is.
  • Wizard is idempotent: re-running updates or adds keys without clobbering existing ones.

Read the full file on GitHub · 235 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. 8d ago First seen · 235 lines · 115 tokens per session scan B a79b4e99f0de

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setup is a skill published in the GitHub repository mronkko/claude-academic-research (23 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 115 tokens to every session and 3,020 once invoked, about $0.0006 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (reads agent configuration directories). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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