professor-fit-analyzer

professor-fit-analyzer is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from voidful/academic-skills. It costs 168 tokens per session (10,173 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A research assistant for evaluating whether a professor may be a good fit for study, advising, or collaboration. It uses sources such as publication lists, lab websites, and academic databases to build an evidence-based profile.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when choosing a PhD or master's adviser, finding an undergraduate research supervisor, or planning contact with a potential academic collaborator.
Why use it?
It reduces the time needed to compare a professor's research, mentoring, collaborators, resources, and likely fit with your background.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it when choosing a PhD or master's adviser, finding an undergraduate research supervisor, or planning contact with a potential academic collaborator.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/voidful/academic-skills/professor-fit-analyser
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 voidful/academic-skills --skill professor-fit-analyser
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/voidful/academic-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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.

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README.md
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Per session 168 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 10,173 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 $0.00168 $0.10173
Opus 5 $0.00084 $0.05087
Sonnet 5 $0.00034 $0.02035
Haiku 4.5 $0.00017 $0.01017

Measured 11d ago against content hash b4e9167f3f82, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

professor-fit-analyzer 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.

professor-fit-analyser/SKILL.md · 733 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 733 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Professor Fit Analyzer

Build an evidence-based dossier for a professor and convert that dossier into an application, advising, or collaboration strategy.

This skill is platform-agnostic, discipline-agnostic, and level-agnostic. It serves PhD applicants, master's students seeking thesis advisors, and undergraduate students looking for capstone/thesis/independent-study supervisors — across all academic fields. Use the browsing, search, and file-reading tools available in the current agent. Prefer public academic sources first. If browsing is unavailable, ask the user for links, PDFs, or a publication list and continue with partial coverage rather than guessing.

Input Specification

Required inputs

  • Professor name.
  • At least one of: Google Scholar URL, personal website URL, lab website URL.

Optional but recommended inputs

  • User education background (current degree, field, institution).
  • User research experience (past projects, publications, technical skills).
  • Application type: PhD student, master's student (thesis-track or coursework-track), undergraduate researcher (capstone/thesis/independent study/專題), RA, postdoc, visiting scholar, or research collaborator.
  • User strengths and distinctive capabilities.
  • Nationality, language proficiency, and whether scholarship or visa sponsorship is needed.
  • Target timeline (e.g., Fall 2027 PhD application, this summer for internship, immediate contact).

Input handling rules

  • If the user provides only a professor name with no URL, ask for at least one URL or publication source before proceeding.
  • If user background is missing, produce conditional advice by applicant type and level rather than generic praise.
  • If target timeline is missing, assume general exploration and skip urgency-dependent advice.
  • If application type is missing, ask the user to specify their level (PhD / master's / undergraduate / other). The analysis depth and advice framing differ significantly by level.
  • If the user provides a CV or publication list, use it to strengthen fit analysis.

Read the full file on GitHub · 733 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 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. 11d ago First seen · 733 lines · 168 tokens per session scan A b4e9167f3f82

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professor-fit-analyzer is a skill published in the GitHub repository voidful/academic-skills (126 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 168 tokens to every session and 10,173 once invoked, about $0.0008 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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