xmum-application-advisor

xmum-application-advisor is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from ViryaZheng/xmum-application-skills. It costs 68 tokens per session (1,749 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A coordinator for applying to XMUM graduate programmes, such as master's research or PhD programmes. It keeps applicant information and application progress organised, then directs each task to the relevant specialist workflow.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to set up or continue an application workspace, review progress, plan school choices, prepare a CV or statement, coordinate recommendations, or organise research and programme materials.
Why use it?
It gives scattered application work a single place and a clear next step. It helps avoid repeating information or losing track of requirements, drafts, recommendations, and deadlines.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions AGENTS.md; mentions Codex.

Good fit Use it to set up or continue an application workspace, review progress, plan school choices, prepare a CV or statement, coordinate recommendations, or organise research and programme materials.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/viryazheng/xmum-application-skills/xmum-application-advisor
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 ViryaZheng/xmum-application-skills --skill xmum-application-advisor
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ViryaZheng/xmum-application-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 68 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,749 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 $0.00068 $0.01749
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.00874
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00350
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00175

Measured 11d ago against content hash b654ba7d05a8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

xmum-application-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 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.

skills/xmum-application-advisor/SKILL.md · 142 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 142 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

XMUM Application Advisor

Purpose

Use this skill as the thin orchestrator for the XMUM application plugin. It connects:

  • AGENTS.md: durable working rules.
  • application-profile.md: stable applicant facts.
  • application-tracker.md: changing application state.
  • User-provided information in chat, dragged-in files, attached documents, screenshots, file paths, copied program requirements, and existing drafts.
  • Specialist XMUM skills for evaluation, strategy, materials, CV, statements, and research.

Do not duplicate every specialist workflow here. Create or maintain the workspace files, collect enough information, then route to the smallest relevant specialist skill.

Core Principle

The advisor is the front desk and case manager. Specialist skills do the deep work.

  • Use this skill when the user says things like 新建申请工作区, 继续申请, 帮我规划, 现在什么状态, 下一步做什么, 整体评估, 申请专家模式, 先收集信息, 我拖了材料, or asks a mixed question spanning multiple application areas.
  • Use a specialist skill directly when the request is narrow, such as only rewriting a CV bullet or only drafting a professor email.
  • If the user explicitly invokes a specialist skill, follow that skill and still read profile/tracker when available.

Startup Checklist

  1. Check whether the current workspace contains:
    • AGENTS.md
    • application-profile.md
    • application-tracker.md
  2. If profile/tracker files exist, read them before giving application advice.
  3. If the files are missing and the user wants ongoing application support, create or propose them from assets/templates/ when available. If templates are unavailable, create minimal Markdown files with the same section names.
  4. Before evaluation, collect enough information from the user's message and any provided files to populate the two Markdown files.
  5. Reconcile the files with the latest user message. The newest explicit user correction wins.
  6. Never write private applicant facts into a public plugin repository. Real applicant state belongs in a private application workspace.

Read the full file on GitHub · 142 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. 11d ago First seen · 142 lines · 68 tokens per session scan A b654ba7d05a8

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xmum-application-advisor is a skill published in the GitHub repository ViryaZheng/xmum-application-skills (2 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 68 tokens to every session and 1,749 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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