survey-methodology

survey-methodology is a skill for Claude Code from Muuuun/luxas. It costs 161 tokens per session (8,047 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A planning method for surveys, reviews, and reports that checks the evidence behind their claims instead of trusting paper summaries.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to design an evidence-based research survey or review with verification, comparison, and defined limits.
Why use it?
It helps uncover unchecked numbers, missing code or data checks, unresolved contradictions, and important gaps in the literature.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions Claude Code.

Good fit Use it to design an evidence-based research survey or review with verification, comparison, and defined limits.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/muuuun/luxas/survey-methodology
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 Muuuun/luxas --skill survey-methodology
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Muuuun/luxas

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 161 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 8,047 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 $0.00161 $0.08047
Opus 5 $0.00081 $0.04023
Sonnet 5 $0.00032 $0.01609
Haiku 4.5 $0.00016 $0.00805

Measured 10d ago against content hash fc46d45c6bd7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

survey-methodology 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 10d 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.

skills/survey-methodology/SKILL.md · 604 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 604 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Survey Methodology Skill

The default failure mode of an autonomous-agent survey is paper-trust: read N papers, organize claims into a taxonomy, ship a prose digest. The output passes type-check (it looks like a survey) but fails verification (none of the cited numbers checked, contradictions not adjudicated, code not opened, negative space not bounded). This produces B-grade output.

Across ~240 reviews from 2024-2026, A-grade reviews share one structural discriminator:

Removing the new taxonomy from an A-grade survey leaves a contribution. Removing it from a B-grade survey leaves nothing.

Empirical A-rate by domain (with our wave-1 + wave-2 evidence base):

Domain A-rate Modal A-pattern
Math (Acta Numerica / Bull AMS / SIAM Review / Probab Surv) ~86% Re-derivation in unified notation; new short proofs
Economics (JEL / Annu Rev Econ / Handbook) ~80% Author re-estimation on harmonized data; "stylized-fact tables"
Engineering (Annu Rev Control/BME, PECS, ARHT) ~73% Author re-simulation; harmonized device spec sheets
Physics (RMP / Living Reviews / Annu Rev Cond Matt) ~70% Re-derivation + cross-paper number table; per-edition updates
Chemistry/materials (Chem Rev / Chem Soc Rev / Annu Rev Phys Chem) ~60% Cross-paper benchmark table; Tutorial Review structured-closing
Earth/environment (Rev Geophys / Annu Rev Earth Planet Sci / NRE&E) ~40% Narrative-with-embedded-re-analysis of observational data
CS/ML/AI surveys (arXiv survey papers) ~13% Bounded corpus + author benchmarks (BetterBench template)
Biology narrative (Nature Reviews / Annu Rev Bio / Cell / Trends) ~7% Almost never — venue norm is conceptual synthesis

Cochrane / BMJ / Lancet SRs are 100% PRISMA-compliant by editorial policy but item-level adherence is asymmetric: ~75% of Cochrane abstracts use GRADE, but only ~7.5% of nominally compliant SRs across journals do full certainty + reporting-bias assessment. The PRISMA label is not the substance — verify item-by-item.

Two key empirical insights from the corpus:

  1. A-grade is topic-determined, not author-determined. Surveys of open artifacts (open-source models, public conference proceedings, public datasets) admit A-grade execution. Surveys of capabilities reported by closed systems (RLHF/alignment, frontier-model agents, healthcare LLMs, industry-disclosed tools like Aletheia) are structurally trapped at B because the survey author cannot independently re-execute cited results.

  2. Disagreement-handling is a near-universal blind spot. 0/31 CS surveys, ~12/30 biology reviews and ~9/30 physics reviews fence-sit on contradictions. Even A-grade work routinely fails this dimension. It is the cleanest novelty axis the agent can exploit.

Read the full file on GitHub · 604 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. 10d ago First seen · 604 lines · 161 tokens per session scan A fc46d45c6bd7

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survey-methodology is a skill published in the GitHub repository Muuuun/luxas (1,003 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 161 tokens to every session and 8,047 once invoked, about $0.0008 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.