scholar-nerd-style

scholar-nerd-style is a skill for Claude Code from tonydzi/second-brain-starter-kit. It costs 89 tokens per session (3,226 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A visual style and HTML layout for document-like websites, using a hand-written single file with restrained typography, lines, and links. It is designed to work without an internet connection or external services.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to build article, research, and documentation pages in this visual style, including pages that must remain usable offline.
Why use it?
It gives pages a consistent, readable presentation without requiring a separate design system or network-loaded assets.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the second-brain-skills plugin — 248 skills, 3 agents, 1 plugin shipped together

Good fit Use it to build article, research, and documentation pages in this visual style, including pages that must remain usable offline.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/tonydzi/second-brain-starter-kit/scholar-nerd-style
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 tonydzi/second-brain-starter-kit --skill scholar-nerd-style
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tonydzi/second-brain-starter-kit

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install second-brain-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 248 skills, 3 agents, 1 plugin.

Wrote 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.

agentmods badge for scholar-nerd-style

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/tonydzi/second-brain-starter-kit/scholar-nerd-style/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/tonydzi/second-brain-starter-kit/scholar-nerd-style)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/tonydzi/second-brain-starter-kit/scholar-nerd-style"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/tonydzi/second-brain-starter-kit/scholar-nerd-style/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.

agentmods 80×15 button for scholar-nerd-style

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/tonydzi/second-brain-starter-kit/scholar-nerd-style"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/tonydzi/second-brain-starter-kit/scholar-nerd-style.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 89 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,226 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 $0.00089 $0.03226
Opus 5.5 $0.00036 $0.01290
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00018 $0.00645
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00323

Measured 2d ago against content hash b37aca2a34b5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

scholar-nerd-style 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 2d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (scripts/_test_style_check.py, scripts/style_check.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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/scholar-nerd-style/SKILL.md · 155 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 155 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

СТИЛЬ УЧЁНОГО ЗАДРОТА

🧒 Простыми словами: это наш почерк для сайтов. Белая бумага, книжный шрифт, тонкие серые линеечки, синие ссылки. Выглядит как страница профессора, который не тратил ни копейки на дизайнера, потому что ему есть что сказать. Один файл, открывается без интернета, будет работать через десять лет.

1. Что это за стиль и зачем он нам

Визуальный язык человека, у которого содержание важнее упаковки — и который достаточно уверен в содержании, чтобы не прятать его за оформлением. Академическая страница, свёрстанная руками: не бедность, а заявление.

Он работает на нас ровно потому, что читатель — инженер или ресёрчер топ-лаборатории. Такой читатель видел тысячу лендингов с градиентом и ноль страниц, где просто лежит работа. Отсутствие маркетинга само по себе сигнал: смотреть тут надо на список, а не на анимацию.

Три вещи, которые делают стиль, а не «просто минимализм»:

  1. Страница — документ, а не приложение. Сохранил Ctrl+S, открыл через год без интернета — всё на месте. Отсюда всё остальное: один файл, инлайн-CSS, никаких CDN, никаких вебшрифтов по сети, никакого JS ради оформления.
  2. Синие ссылки браузера по умолчанию (#0000ee, посещённые #551a8b). Это не лень — это отказ от брендирования. Ссылка выглядит как ссылка, посещённое видно. Так делают страницы, которые читают, а не «конвертят».
  3. Правда о происхождении внизу каждой страницы — блок .foot: как и когда сделано, чем сгенерировано. Страница отчитывается о себе.

Когда НЕ применять: рекрутерский one-pager, продуктовый лендинг со скриншотами, что угодно с крупной графикой. Такая страница помечается в исходнике <!-- style-exempt: причина --> — иначе гейт будет ругаться, а гейт, который ругается на намеренное решение, перестают читать.

2. Откуда канон

Стиль изобретён на живых страницах, они же — эталон. Не выдумывать заново, смотреть туда:

  • tonydzi.github.io/scholar/ — научный профиль (эталон «страница о человеке»)
  • tonydzi.github.io/scholar/publications/ — эталон «длинный список сущностей»
  • tonydzi.github.io/contributions/ — эталон «генерируемая страница со счётчиками и статусами»

Read the full file on GitHub · 155 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. 2d ago Changed b37aca2a34b5
  2. 15d ago Changed · -2 lines d58799f63df7
  3. 17d ago Changed · +2 lines · -57 tokens per session 9a3ab2715794
  4. 20d ago Changed · +13 lines 26406b8d495a
  5. 29d ago First seen · 142 lines · 146 tokens per session scan A 9e4b171b58f5

Subscribe to this mod's changes

scholar-nerd-style is a skill published in the GitHub repository tonydzi/second-brain-starter-kit (12 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 89 tokens to every session and 3,226 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-09-24.

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