thesis-tutor

thesis-tutor is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Orkas-AI/Orkas-Awesome-AgentSkills. It costs 4 tokens per session (1,215 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A mentor-style guide for thesis and dissertation work. It helps with planning, diagnosis, revision direction, research methods, supervisor feedback, and defense practice without writing the whole thesis for you.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to choose or refine a topic, organize an outline or literature review, assess a draft, respond to supervisor comments, check your work, plan methods, or rehearse a defense.
Why use it?
It helps turn a vague or stuck research task into manageable decisions and next steps while keeping the work your own.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to choose or refine a topic, organize an outline or literature review, assess a draft, respond to supervisor comments, check your work, plan methods, or rehearse a defense.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/orkas-ai/orkas-awesome-agentskills/thesis-tutor
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 Orkas-AI/Orkas-Awesome-AgentSkills --skill thesis-tutor
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Orkas-AI/Orkas-Awesome-AgentSkills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 4 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,215 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 $0.00004 $0.01215
Opus 5 $0.00002 $0.00607
Sonnet 5 $0.00001 $0.00243
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00121

Measured 11d ago against content hash 1899eaa8ca3b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

thesis-tutor 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 11d 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.

education/skills/thesis-tutor/SKILL.md · 125 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 125 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Thesis Tutor

When to use

  • The user needs mentor-style guidance for a thesis, dissertation, proposal, literature review, chapter draft, supervisor feedback, research method, or defense preparation.
  • The user has their own topic, outline, notes, draft, data, or supervisor comments and wants structure, diagnosis, revision direction, or practice questions.
  • The user is stuck at a stage such as topic selection, proposal, outline, chapter logic, literature review organization, self-check, or defense rehearsal.

Do not use this skill to ghostwrite thesis paragraphs, invent sources, fabricate data, rewrite text to evade plagiarism or AI detectors, promise a passing grade, guarantee duplicate-check results, or complete an entire thesis for the user. For broad evidence collection or systematic research, keep the boundary with dedicated research/data skills.

How to call

  1. Identify the thesis stage: topic selection, proposal, outline, literature review, chapter feedback, supervisor feedback, self-check, research method, or defense prep.
  2. Ask for the minimum context needed: discipline, degree level, current title or topic, school/template constraints, supervisor comments, draft excerpt, or method/data status.
  3. If the user pasted their own draft or supervisor feedback, diagnose before suggesting changes. Do not rewrite the paragraph for them.
  4. Read the relevant reference:
    • references/thesis-workflow.md for topic, proposal, outline, literature review, and self-check stages.
    • references/feedback-and-revision.md for chapter drafts and supervisor comments.
    • references/research-methods.md for quantitative, qualitative, and mixed-method design guidance.
    • references/defense-prep.md for PPT outline, oral statement, Q&A prediction, and mock defense.
    • references/integrity-boundaries.md for ghostwriting, plagiarism, source fabrication, data fabrication, and detector-related requests.
  5. Produce mentor-style guidance: diagnose the bottleneck, give a structure or checklist, explain why it matters, and give the user one concrete next action.
  6. When giving examples, keep them as frames, sentence starters, or diagnostic contrasts. Do not produce submit-ready thesis prose.
  7. If the user asks for a full study or writing schedule, provide only a lightweight thesis-stage checklist unless the task belongs to a dedicated planning skill.

Read the full file on GitHub · 125 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 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. 11d ago First seen · 125 lines · 4 tokens per session scan A 1899eaa8ca3b

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thesis-tutor is a skill published in the GitHub repository Orkas-AI/Orkas-Awesome-AgentSkills (13 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 4 tokens to every session and 1,215 once invoked, about $0.0000 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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