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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 | $0.00000 | $0.02443 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00000 | $0.01222 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00000 | $0.00489 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00000 | $0.00244 |
Grade A, and why
academic-language-toolkit 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 241 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Academic Language Toolkit
Academic discourse is characterised by a specialised lexicon, objective tonal registers, and syntactic structures that prioritise information density and conceptual precision over conversational fluidity.
1. Hedging Language (Epistemic Modality)
Hedging is not weakness — it is a marker of academic credibility. It signals that the writer is aware of the limits of the evidence and the boundaries of their claims. Overconfident assertions without hedging are a red flag in academic review.
Modal Verbs (Degrees of Certainty)
| Verb | Certainty Level | Example |
|---|---|---|
| will | Very high | "This will result in..." |
| would | High / conditional | "This would suggest..." |
| should | Moderate / expected | "This should be interpreted..." |
| may | Moderate | "This may indicate..." |
| might | Lower | "This might be attributed to..." |
| could | Low / speculative | "This could be explained by..." |
Hedging Adverbs
- High certainty: generally, typically, usually, commonly, predominantly, consistently
- Moderate: often, frequently, largely, broadly
- Tentative: apparently, seemingly, arguably, possibly, presumably, conceivably, perhaps
Hedging Adjectives
- possible, probable, likely, unlikely, potential, apparent, plausible, uncertain
Hedging Verbs
- suggest, indicate, appear, seem, tend, imply, propose, hypothesise, point to
Hedging Phrases (Ready to Use)
- "Evidence suggests that..."
- "It is possible that..."
- "It could be argued that..."
- "There is reason to believe that..."
- "The data appear to indicate..."
- "It seems likely that..."
- "Under certain conditions, this may..."
- "These findings tentatively suggest..."
- "Preliminary evidence points to..."
Discipline Differences
- STEM: Hedges primarily through statistical language ("p < 0.05," "within a 95% confidence interval") and passive constructions
- Social Sciences: Heavy use of modal verbs and tentative reporting verbs
- Humanities: Hedging through phrases like "arguably," "one might contend," "it is tempting to read this as"
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.
- 12d ago First seen · 241 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 6e7eb7c7b46d
academic-language-toolkit is a skill published in the GitHub repository muhammad1438/academic-writer-skills (6 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 2,443 tokens. 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 2026-08-31.
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