presentation-signals

presentation-signals is a skill for Claude Code from wanshuiyin/Anti-Autoresearch. It costs 246 tokens per session (10,241 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A supplementary checker for visible signs in research papers, such as repeated tables, leftover template text, implausible figures, or padded pages. It reports findings but does not decide whether a paper is trustworthy.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to scan a paper’s presentation and produce findings linked to specific text or page locations for a broader integrity review.
Why use it?
It gives reviewers concrete surface-level clues to inspect while avoiding the mistake of treating appearance alone as proof of a problem.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions Codex.

Good fit Use it to scan a paper’s presentation and produce findings linked to specific text or page locations for a broader integrity review.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/wanshuiyin/anti-autoresearch/presentation-signals
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 wanshuiyin/Anti-Autoresearch --skill presentation-signals
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/wanshuiyin/Anti-Autoresearch

Made for: Claude Code.

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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Your own site
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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 246 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 10,241 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to high

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • high Anti-Refusal · line 69
    Skill instructs the agent to omit warnings, disclaimers, or ethical commentary. Stripping safety caveats hides risk from the user and is a common jailbreak preamble.
    Fix: Remove instructions that suppress warnings, disclaimers, or ethical commentary. Let the agent surface safety-relevant caveats to the user.
How audits are shown
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 $0.00246 $0.10241
Opus 5.5 $0.00098 $0.04096
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00049 $0.02048
Haiku 4.5 $0.00025 $0.01024

Measured 1mo ago against content hash aac2d7e2ba71, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

presentation-signals 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 1mo 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

skills/presentation-signals/SKILL.md · 648 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 648 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Presentation Signals — the surface tells (auxiliary, never a verdict)

Run surface signal checks for: $ARGUMENTS (requires claims.json from /evidence-ledger). Emit span-anchored presentation-signals.findings.json. This skill computes no verdict.

⚠️ This skill is deliberately weak by design. A polished paper can be fraudulent and a rough paper can be honest, so surface signals must never drive a verdict. Everything here is emitted under skill presentation-signals, which the adjudicator caps at minor (SURFACE_ONLY_SKILLS + SURFACE_PATTERNS in tools/adjudicate_findings.py) — at most SOFT_FLAGS, never HARD_FLAGS. This is not an AI-text classifier; for authorship detection use a dedicated tool (Pangram / GPTZero / Binoculars). Our only job is to add "combine with the substantive findings and look closer" context. See references/hack-pattern-taxonomy.md §F.

🔒 Do not wrap this skill in /loop, /schedule, or CronCreate. It is verdict-bearing input — it proposes the surface findings the deterministic adjudicator turns into the report. Re-firing it on a wall-clock timer adds no signal: its output changes only when the paper / ledger changes, not with the clock. Schedule the external wait that precedes it — ledger built → check once. (Mirrors ARIS's external-cadence doctrine.)

Why this exists

Real reviewers notice surface tells before they read a single number — and they say so out loud: "两张表一模一样" (two tables are identical), "图还是大模型生成的" (the figure is LLM-generated), "就这还没写满9页" (couldn't even fill 9 pages), "堆砌名词吗" (just stuffing jargon?), "本文不是什么什么,而是什么什么…论文应该直接表达 做了什么" (stop hedging "this paper is not X but rather Y" — just say what you did), "摘要写的像实验分析,读不到引言" (the abstract reads like an experiment log; the introduction is unreadable). An autoresearch pipeline (or a rushed human) produces exactly these artifacts: a table copy-pasted and never updated, an oversized float to pad the page limit, a decorative generated illustration in place of a real results plot, paragraphs of generic LLM boilerplate, draft text so densely over-hedged that every sentence defends against an objection, and an abstract that dumps experiment notes instead of telling a background → contribution → evidence story.

Read the full file on GitHub · 648 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. 1mo ago First seen · 648 lines · 246 tokens per session scan A aac2d7e2ba71

Subscribe to this mod's changes

presentation-signals is a skill published in the GitHub repository wanshuiyin/Anti-Autoresearch (172 stars, last pushed 11d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 246 tokens to every session and 10,241 once invoked, about $0.0010 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 2026-08-30.

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