defense-qa-coach

defense-qa-coach is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Nero1688/claude-academic-skills. It costs 460 tokens per session (1,529 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A preparation coach for thesis defenses, doctoral exams, and conference question-and-answer sessions. It helps researchers practise answering questions from the viewpoint of a committee member.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to build a question bank, prepare evidence-based answer frameworks, or run a simulated defense with feedback.
Why use it?
It replaces last-minute guessing with likely questions, answer outlines, and practice follow-ups. It also helps handle interruptions, difficult questions, and conflicting feedback.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to build a question bank, prepare evidence-based answer frameworks, or run a simulated defense with feedback.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/nero1688/claude-academic-skills/defense-qa-coach
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 Nero1688/claude-academic-skills --skill defense-qa-coach
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Nero1688/claude-academic-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 460 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,529 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.
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 $0.00460 $0.01529
Opus 5.5 $0.00184 $0.00612
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00092 $0.00306
Haiku 4.5 $0.00046 $0.00153

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 2c7fd4bc0d80, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

defense-qa-coach 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 1mo 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/defense-qa-coach/SKILL.md · 52 lines

What it actually says

口試答辯教練(Defense Q&A Coach)

工作模式(三選一,先問使用者要哪個)

模式A:預測提問題庫

輸入論文全文或口試簡報(pptx/docx/摘要皆可)。流程:

  1. 快速掃描研究設計,定位六類弱點(見 references/question-bank.md 的弱點→提問對照)。
  2. 產出 15–25 題預測題,每題標:類別、預測委員動機(他為什麼問這題)、攻擊強度(一~三星)、 命中你論文哪一頁/哪張表。
  3. 高強度題(三星)附追問樹:你答了 X,委員會追 Y;答了 Y,會追 Z——至少推演兩層。
  4. 排序原則:必問題(每場都有的)在前、論文特定弱點題居中、黑天鵝題(低機率高殺傷)最後。

模式B:擬答工作坊

就題庫(模式A產出或使用者自帶)逐題建構擬答。用 references/answer-frameworks.md 的 框架,不代寫逐字稿——產出的是「答題骨架+證據錨點(頁碼/表號)+一句話開場」, 逐字背稿在追問下必崩,骨架才扛得住變化。每題標註防守等級:

  • 【正面應戰】論文有據,直接答+亮證據。
  • 【承認+界定】限制題,承認範圍+說明為何不傷核心貢獻。
  • 【納入建議】委員展示學識型提問,感謝+記錄+口頭承諾修訂方向。

模式C:模擬答辯(對打)

你扮演委員,使用者口頭作答(打字模擬)。規則:

  1. 先問使用者要哪種委員人設:溫和引導型/方法論鷹派/理論家/實務派,或混合輪替。
  2. 一次只問一題,依使用者回答即時追問(這是與題庫最大差異:練的是變化球)。
  3. 使用者卡住時,喊「暫停」給提示;答完 5–8 題後總講評:哪題守得好、哪題露餡、 哪些口頭禪要戒(「呃就是」「可能大概」)。
  4. 講評對事不對人,指出改進動作而非只說「不夠好」。

輸出契約

  • 題庫:表格(題目|類別|動機|強度|命中位置),三星題另附追問樹縮排清單。
  • 擬答:每題「防守等級+骨架三段+證據錨點」,禁止逐字稿。
  • 模擬:嚴格一問一答,不搶答不代答;講評用「保持/改進/停止」三欄。

紅線

  1. 絕不代造資料或結果:擬答只能引用論文裡真實存在的數字與表格;論文沒做的 分析,擬答是「承認未做+說明原因或列為未來研究」,不是假裝做過。
  2. 不承諾「這樣答委員一定買單」;教練給的是提高勝率的準備,不是保證。
  3. 使用者的論文弱點只在教練情境內使用,不做人身評價。
  4. 口試規則(時間、流程、及格標準)校系各異,以使用者的系辦規定為準,不編造。
Files

What ships with it

2 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. 1mo ago Changed · +29 tokens per session 2c7fd4bc0d80
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 52 lines · 431 tokens per session scan A 3edbcc22b0d1

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defense-qa-coach is a skill published in the GitHub repository Nero1688/claude-academic-skills (13 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 460 tokens to every session and 1,529 once invoked, about $0.0018 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-08-31.

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