create-advisor

create-advisor is a skill for Claude Code from QuantumBFS/sci-brain. It costs 23 tokens per session (2,675 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for creating or updating a named advisor profile from a researcher's conversation history. The profile records how that person thinks so an agent can use it as a collaborator.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to onboard a contributor, update an advisor from new conversations, import dialogue files, or extract thinking patterns.
Why use it?
It turns scattered conversations into a reusable description of a researcher's reasoning style and background.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions subagents.

Part of the sci-brain plugin — 17 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to onboard a contributor, update an advisor from new conversations, import dialogue files, or extract thinking patterns.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/quantumbfs/sci-brain/create-advisor
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add QuantumBFS/sci-brain --skill create-advisor
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/QuantumBFS/sci-brain

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install sci-brain, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 17 skills.

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Per session 23 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,675 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 warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 2 findings, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Agent Snooping · line 36
    Skill enumerates or reads other installed skills. Access to other skills' SKILL.md files or the skills directory reveals prompt instructions, capabilities, and secrets that should be invisible to peer skills.
    Fix: Remove all code or instructions that list or read other skills' files or directories. Skills should operate independently; cross-skill access is a privilege escalation.
  • medium Agent Snooping · line 64
    Skill enumerates or reads other installed skills. Access to other skills' SKILL.md files or the skills directory reveals prompt instructions, capabilities, and secrets that should be invisible to peer skills.
    Fix: Remove all code or instructions that list or read other skills' files or directories. Skills should operate independently; cross-skill access is a privilege escalation.
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 $0.00023 $0.02675
Opus 5.5 $0.00009 $0.01070
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00005 $0.00535
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00267

Measured 1mo ago against content hash b06f436dbade, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

create-advisor 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/create-advisor/SKILL.md · 238 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 238 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Installed resources

Keep the working directory at the user's project. Resolve this loaded SKILL.md with Path(path).resolve() before locating resources; follow symlinks. Bare helpers/, references/, and template paths are relative to that real skill directory. A path written as skills/<name>/... means the installed <name> skill's directory from the agent's skill catalog, not a path in the user's project. Locate each dependency by its public skill name; copied skills need not be siblings. If a dependency is absent, report the missing skill and install it before that step. Shared writing files are bundled in how-to-write-ideas-report/references/.

Before running the examples, set DOWNLOAD_REF_DIR to the absolute directory of how-to-download-ref. Quote these variables as shown.

Advisor Profile Generation

Onboard a contributor and create a named advisor profile. The profile captures how a real person thinks — their cognitive style, attention patterns, reasoning strengths, and conversation dynamics — so the brainstorm-ideas skill can launch them as a subagent collaborator rather than a thin inline persona.

Choose the mode

  • Create an advisor: start at Step 1 and run the complete workflow.
  • Update an advisor from new conversations: read the existing advisors/<slug>/profile.md, preserve its background, then start at Step 2 with the new JSONL or Markdown sources.
  • Import Markdown dialogs: ask for the file paths and target advisor, then use the Markdown path in Step 2. For a new advisor, collect the Step 1 background first.
  • Analyze thinking patterns only: run Conversation Pattern Extraction and stop after writing thinking-pattern.md and master-thinking.md; do not synthesize an advisor profile unless the user asks.

Step 1 — Personal Profile

Ask the contributor to provide their academic/professional background:

  • (a) Tell me yourself (field, experience, what you've worked on)
  • (b) Zotero library — follow the know-me-better skill instructions (skills/know-me-better/SKILL.md) to index publications
  • (c) Google Scholar profile — follow the know-me-better skill instructions to index publications

Read the full file on GitHub · 238 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. 1mo ago Changed · -31 lines b06f436dbade
  2. 1mo ago Changed · +14 lines 173ef8f64821
  3. 1mo ago First seen · 255 lines · 23 tokens per session scan A 12406a1d3619

Subscribe to this mod's changes

create-advisor is a skill published in the GitHub repository QuantumBFS/sci-brain (101 stars, last pushed 23d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 23 tokens to every session and 2,675 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-09-03.

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