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.
npx skills add sandbaseai/sandbase-skills --skill academic-trend-researchgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sandbaseai/sandbase-skillsWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/sandbaseai/sandbase-skills/academic-trend-research)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/sandbaseai/sandbase-skills/academic-trend-research"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/sandbaseai/sandbase-skills/academic-trend-research/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/sandbaseai/sandbase-skills/academic-trend-research"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/sandbaseai/sandbase-skills/academic-trend-research.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- NVIDIA SkillSpector pass
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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00043 | $0.00347 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00022 | $0.00173 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00009 | $0.00069 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00004 | $0.00035 |
Grade A, and why
academic-trend-research 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.
What it actually says
Academic Trend Research
Research emerging academic trends by combining scholarly databases, web sources, and news to identify rising research areas, breakthrough papers, and shifting scientific consensus. Ideal for R&D teams tracking frontier science. Read the API map before selecting a capability.
Call SandBase capabilities
For every selected tool, call sandbase_describe_tool first and use only arguments in its current input schema. Then call sandbase_call_tool with the exact tool_name.
Available Tools
scholar_search_scholarscholar_search_mixedexa_searchtavily_searchgoogle_news_bulk_articles
Workflow
- Understand the user's research question, target, and context.
- Call
sandbase_describe_toolfor each selected tool to confirm parameter schema. - Call
sandbase_call_toolwith the exact tool_name and schema-defined arguments. - Synthesize findings into a clear, evidence-backed answer.
- Cite sources, note evidence gaps, and separate observations from interpretations.
Guidelines
- Always call
sandbase_describe_toolbefore using any capability. - Cite sources and preserve attribution (URLs, usernames, dates, metrics).
- Separate factual observations from analysis and recommendations.
- If data is unavailable, note the gap and continue with available evidence.
- Read-only research only. Never take actions on platforms.
What ships with it
1 file 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.
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.
- 11d ago First seen · 37 lines · 43 tokens per session scan A df61705a785c
academic-trend-research is a skill published in the GitHub repository sandbaseai/sandbase-skills (151 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 43 tokens to every session and 347 once invoked, about $0.0002 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.
Other skills, from other repositories
nature-experiment-log
A workflow for turning experiment notes, images, audio, or text into structured Markdown laboratory logs with YAML metadata. It can also organize raw attachments and optionally connect the logs to Feishu or Obsidian.
researchwrite
Proposal-first scientific writing pipeline, installed under the compatibility trigger researchwrite and the repository package name nature-proposal-writer. Use for composing, revising, or auditing research proposals, opening reports, research plans, and evidence-grounded scientific writing. Three modes…
nature-writing
Draft, restructure, or plan Nature-style manuscript sections and initial-submission materials from author-provided claims, results, figures, notes, or Chinese drafts. Use for abstracts, introductions, related work, methods, Results or experiments, discussions, conclusions, titles, full manuscript arguments, and…
nature-academic-search
Multi-source literature search, citation verification, strict independent other-citation audits, article-level citation metric tables, influential citer profiling with citation-context extraction, MeSH search strategy, citation file management (.nbib/.ris/.bib conversion), and reference management (BibTeX, related…
literature-searcher
Search CrossRef, OpenAlex, PubMed, Semantic Scholar, and optional Scopus; deduplicate results, download open-access PDFs by DOI, classify papers, monitor new results, and analyze coverage. Use when asked to search literature, monitor a topic, download an open-access paper, classify papers, or analyze literature gaps.
using-cesiumjs-skills
Use when starting any conversation involving CesiumJS development - provides orientation on available domain skills and how they activate.