survey

survey is a skill for Claude Code from skyllwt/AutoSci. It costs 30 tokens per session (2,419 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A skill that writes a paper's Related Work section from knowledge stored in a research wiki. Related Work is the part of a paper that compares the study with earlier research.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create a LaTeX section with paper citations or a Markdown section with wiki links, based on a research question, selected ideas, or a paper plan.
Why use it?
It groups papers by research direction instead of producing a disconnected paper-by-paper list, while checking citations and following academic-writing rules.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions Claude Code.

Not installable on its own: it runs a file from its repository that does not travel with it. Clone the repository, or install whatever ships that file. The line is python3 tools/research_wiki.py slug "<query-keywords>".

About the project

AutoSci is an AI research platform organized around a wiki, with an agent that supports stages of scientific work such as reading, experimentation, writing, and retaining knowledge across projects. It is for people building or using AI-assisted research workflows, with Claude Code, Codex, and OpenCode adaptations available. The catalogue add-ons extend those agent-specific workflows.

skyllwt/AutoSci · 1,660 stars · on GitHub

Install

Getting it into your agent

There is no command for this one: it runs only inside a plugin, and the catalogue could not identify which plugin ships it. The source is linked below.

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 30 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,419 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00030 $0.02419
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.01210
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00484
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00242

Measured 6d ago against content hash 1c1919f457aa, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

survey 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 6d 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.

.claude/skills/survey/SKILL.md · 217 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 217 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/survey

Generate a Related Work section ready for direct use in a paper, based on existing wiki knowledge. Draw material from wiki/papers/, concepts/, topics/; group by research direction (not paper-by-paper listing). End each group with a statement of how it differs from this work. Citations follow citation-verification.md; writing follows academic-writing.md Related Work rules. Supports LaTeX and Markdown output formats.

Inputs

  • query: one of:
    • research question description (free text, e.g. "parameter-efficient fine-tuning for LLMs")
    • list of idea slugs (from wiki/ideas/, used to organize related work around specific ideas)
    • path to PAPER_PLAN.md (extract Related Work section definition from it)
  • --format (optional, default latex): output format
    • latex: \cite{key} citations, embeddable directly in a paper
    • markdown: [[slug]] wikilink citations, for wiki archiving
  • --max-papers (optional, default 30): maximum number of papers to cite

Outputs

  • wiki/outputs/related-work-{slug}-{date}.md — Related Work text (archived)
  • wiki/graph/edges.jsonl — derived_from edges (if a new output is created)
  • wiki/log.md — appended log entry
  • Terminal output — Related Work body text (for direct copy-paste)

Wiki Interaction

Reads

  • wiki/papers/*.md — Problem & Context, Key idea, Experiment & Results, Related, My take
  • wiki/concepts/*.md — Definition, Variants, Comparison, Known limitations
  • wiki/topics/*.md — Overview, Timeline, Open problems, Seminal works
  • wiki/ideas/*.md — Hypothesis, Motivation, origin_gaps (if input is idea slugs)
  • wiki/methods/*.md — Mechanism, Procedure, source_papers (when ideas reference methods)
  • wiki/index.md — content catalog, filtered by importance
  • wiki/graph/context_brief.md — global context
  • wiki/graph/edges.jsonl — inter-paper semantic relationships (same_problem_as, similar_method_to, builds_on, challenges)
  • .claude/skills/shared-references/academic-writing.md — Related Work writing rules
  • .claude/skills/shared-references/citation-verification.md — citation discipline

Read the full file on GitHub · 217 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. 6d ago First seen · 217 lines · 30 tokens per session scan A 1c1919f457aa

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survey is a skill published in the GitHub repository skyllwt/AutoSci (1,660 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 30 tokens to every session and 2,419 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.

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