experiment-planner

experiment-planner is a skill for Codex from sidiangongyuan/codex-skills-library. It costs 45 tokens per session (2,655 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An experiment-planning workflow for deep-learning and computer-science research ideas. It turns proposed claims into pilot experiments, ablations, diagnostics, robustness tests, and failure analyses.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to design experiment matrices, coordinate resources, test claims, plan robustness checks, and assess whether results could support a paper.
Why use it?
It helps determine early whether an idea can support a convincing research story before substantial implementation or paper writing.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present. Also seen: mentions subagents; $skill-name invocation.

Good fit Use it to design experiment matrices, coordinate resources, test claims, plan robustness checks, and assess whether results could support a paper.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/sidiangongyuan/codex-skills-library/experiment-planner
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 sidiangongyuan/codex-skills-library --skill experiment-planner
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sidiangongyuan/codex-skills-library

Made for: Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 45 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,655 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 $0.00045 $0.02655
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.01327
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00531
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00265

Measured 4d ago against content hash 0c1281e660c6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

experiment-planner 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 4d 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/experiment-planner/SKILL.md · 233 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 233 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Experiment Planner

Overview

Use this skill when the user needs to explore a research idea, continue an authorized experiment workflow, or accept and interpret results. It turns claims into a testable story and experiment plan. It is an adapter over existing research-agent ideas, not a replacement for the user's writing, review, rebuttal, figure, evidence, or GitHub release skills.

Core Boundaries

  • Default domain: general deep learning and computer science research. Adapt to collaborative perception, 3D perception, or autonomous driving only when the task context calls for it.
  • For discussion-only planning, keep output in chat unless the user asks for a saved artifact. When the user asks to implement or run experiments in a repository, persist the pre-run result contract: update the paper's final LaTeX tables when a manuscript is in scope; otherwise update the existing experiment-planning document or create experiment-plan.md at the repository root.
  • Do not launch long experiments, deploy GPU jobs, modify code, or retry failed runs unless the user explicitly asks for execution or a still-valid approval covers the ordinary continuation. A bounded same-config recovery stays within that approval; do not silently expand its scope.
  • Do not replace paper-section-playbook, paper-refinement-skills, paper-review-panel, rebuttal-response-skills, paper-visual-craft, or github-project-release; hand off to them only after the research plan or results are ready.
  • Treat external projects as references, not installed dependencies. Read references/source-map.md before discussing provenance or upgrading this skill from upstream sources.
  • During approved execution, a still-valid earlier user authorization covers ordinary implementation, local bug fixes, queueing in-scope runs, and evaluation. It does not authorize a new experiment family, dataset, seed policy, or paper-only TODO; those remain explicit opt-ins.

Entry Modes

Read the full file on GitHub · 233 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 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. 4d ago Changed · +93 lines · -3 tokens per session 0c1281e660c6
  2. 10d ago First seen · 140 lines · 48 tokens per session scan A 121b1ff348e2

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experiment-planner is a skill published in the GitHub repository sidiangongyuan/codex-skills-library (8 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 45 tokens to every session and 2,655 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 2026-08-31.

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