Academic Paper Strategist
AAASS554/codex-academic-paper-skills
A skill your agent uses when the user needs to plan, de-risk, or ground a software engineering / computer science undergraduate thesis from a real codebase before final writing.
The research-domain clarification skill — find underspecified items in a thesis spec.md (prose wrongif, universe rows without rationale, missing budget/expiry/pins, ambiguous pillars), ask the human…
Install Clarify
$ npx skills add agentii-ai/agentii-investment-intelligence --skill clarify -a claude-codeProject install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.
$ gh skill install agentii-ai/agentii-investment-intelligence clarify --agent claude-codeProject scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/agentii-ai/agentii-investment-intelligence.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/plugins/vertical-plugins/scenarios/skills/agentii/clarify .claude/skills/clarify && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.
Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/
Install the "clarify" agent skill from https://github.com/agentii-ai/agentii-investment-intelligence/tree/main/plugins/vertical-plugins/scenarios/skills/agentii/clarify into .claude/skills/clarify/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "clarify", then confirm the skill loads.Claude Code copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$skill-installer install https://github.com/agentii-ai/agentii-investment-intelligence/tree/main/plugins/vertical-plugins/scenarios/skills/agentii/clarifyType this inside Codex. $skill-installer <name> installs a curated skill from openai/skills. The installer writes to $CODEX_HOME/skills (default ~/.codex/skills). Restart Codex if the skill does not show up.
$ npx skills add agentii-ai/agentii-investment-intelligence --skill clarify -a codexProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.
$ gh skill install agentii-ai/agentii-investment-intelligence clarify --agent codexProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/agentii-ai/agentii-investment-intelligence.git skills-src && mkdir -p .agents/skills && cp -r skills-src/plugins/vertical-plugins/scenarios/skills/agentii/clarify .agents/skills/clarify && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.agents/skills/ instead of .agents/skills for a personal install.
Codex skills documentation · loads skills from .agents/skills/
Install the "clarify" agent skill from https://github.com/agentii-ai/agentii-investment-intelligence/tree/main/plugins/vertical-plugins/scenarios/skills/agentii/clarify into .agents/skills/clarify/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "clarify", then confirm the skill loads.Codex copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add agentii-ai/agentii-investment-intelligence --skill clarify -a cursorProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.
$ gh skill install agentii-ai/agentii-investment-intelligence clarify --agent cursorProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/agentii-ai/agentii-investment-intelligence.git skills-src && mkdir -p .cursor/skills && cp -r skills-src/plugins/vertical-plugins/scenarios/skills/agentii/clarify .cursor/skills/clarify && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.cursor/skills/ instead of .cursor/skills for a personal install.
Cursor skills documentation · loads skills from .cursor/skills/, .agents/skills/, .claude/skills/, .codex/skills/
Install the "clarify" agent skill from https://github.com/agentii-ai/agentii-investment-intelligence/tree/main/plugins/vertical-plugins/scenarios/skills/agentii/clarify into .cursor/skills/clarify/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "clarify", then confirm the skill loads.Cursor copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gemini skills install https://github.com/agentii-ai/agentii-investment-intelligence.git --path plugins/vertical-plugins/scenarios/skills/agentii/clarify--scope user (default) or --scope workspace; --path is the subfolder of the repo that holds the skill; --consent skips the security confirmation prompt.
$ npx skills add agentii-ai/agentii-investment-intelligence --skill clarify -a gemini-cliProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.
$ gh skill install agentii-ai/agentii-investment-intelligence clarify --agent gemini-cliProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/agentii-ai/agentii-investment-intelligence.git skills-src && mkdir -p .gemini/skills && cp -r skills-src/plugins/vertical-plugins/scenarios/skills/agentii/clarify .gemini/skills/clarify && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.gemini/skills/ instead of .gemini/skills for a personal install, then run /skills reload.
Gemini CLI skills documentation · loads skills from .gemini/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "clarify" agent skill from https://github.com/agentii-ai/agentii-investment-intelligence/tree/main/plugins/vertical-plugins/scenarios/skills/agentii/clarify into .gemini/skills/clarify/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "clarify", then confirm the skill loads.Gemini CLI copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gh skill install agentii-ai/agentii-investment-intelligence clarifyInstalls for Copilot at project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Preview a skill first with gh skill preview. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ npx skills add agentii-ai/agentii-investment-intelligence --skill clarify -a github-copilotProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.copilot/skills/.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/agentii-ai/agentii-investment-intelligence.git skills-src && mkdir -p .github/skills && cp -r skills-src/plugins/vertical-plugins/scenarios/skills/agentii/clarify .github/skills/clarify && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.copilot/skills/ instead of .github/skills for a personal install. Commit .github/skills so cloud agent and code review can use it.
GitHub Copilot skills documentation · loads skills from .github/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "clarify" agent skill from https://github.com/agentii-ai/agentii-investment-intelligence/tree/main/plugins/vertical-plugins/scenarios/skills/agentii/clarify into .github/skills/clarify/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "clarify", then confirm the skill loads.GitHub Copilot copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add agentii-ai/agentii-investment-intelligence --skill clarify -a opencodeOpenCode documents no install command of its own. Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.config/opencode/skills/.
$ gh skill install agentii-ai/agentii-investment-intelligence clarify --agent opencodeProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/agentii-ai/agentii-investment-intelligence.git skills-src && mkdir -p .opencode/skills && cp -r skills-src/plugins/vertical-plugins/scenarios/skills/agentii/clarify .opencode/skills/clarify && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.config/opencode/skills/ instead of .opencode/skills for a personal install.
OpenCode skills documentation · loads skills from .opencode/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "clarify" agent skill from https://github.com/agentii-ai/agentii-investment-intelligence/tree/main/plugins/vertical-plugins/scenarios/skills/agentii/clarify into .opencode/skills/clarify/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "clarify", then confirm the skill loads.OpenCode copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
Facts
- Skill name
clarify- GitHub stars
- 207
- Used in
- 1 other repo
- Token cost
- ~839 tokens
- SKILL.md length
- 265 words
- Files
- 2 (incl. references)
- Skills in repo
- 79
- Repo updated
- First seen
- Licence
- Apache-2.0
At a glance
The research-domain clarification skill — find underspecified items in a thesis spec.md (prose wrongif, universe rows without rationale, missing budget/expiry/pins, ambiguous pillars), ask the human…
- Works in 2 steps: Analyze (deterministic) → Encode (after the human answers)
- Tasks that involve Essays and academic help
- SKILL.md covers Invocation, Two phases and Rules
- Calls python3
What it does
Clarify is an agent skill from agentii-ai/agentii-investment-intelligence. The research-domain clarification skill — find underspecified items in a thesis spec.md (prose wrongif, universe rows without rationale, missing budget/expiry/pins, ambiguous pillars), ask the human structured questions WITH options (max 5 per round), encode the answers back into spec.md's Clarifications section, and re-evaluate checklists/thesis-quality.md after every write (Q32 bidirectional maintenance).
Its SKILL.md is about 840 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 2 other files, including reference files (for example `references/modes.md`).
It sits in Education, covering Essays and academic help. The repository describes itself as: Claude-type skills for institutional equity research — 25 AI agent skills with SEC filings, XBRL financials, earnings calendars, DCF/comps/LBO models, and PPT generation. Powered… The licence is Apache-2.0.
When your agent uses it
- Tasks that involve Essays and academic help
Example prompts
- “/clarify”
Requirements
- Python 3
Workflow steps
2 steps, taken from the step headings in SKILL.md.
What it can do on your machine
Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 86980e1. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.
Tool permissions
Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.
From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.
Runs code
Shell commands in SKILL.md call:
python3
From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.
Network
No URLs in SKILL.md.
From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.
Credentials
Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.
From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.
Context cost
Clarify loads about 839 tokens when it runs, and up to ~994 if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 105 tokens; SKILL.md has 265 words of instructions outside code blocks.
Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.
Safety
Auto-check passed
The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.
Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.
SKILL.md
The full file from agentii-ai/agentii-investment-intelligence at commit 86980e1, republished under its Apache-2.0 licence (© agentii-ai). 265 words, ~839 tokens.
Download SKILL.mdSave it as
.claude/skills/clarify/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 1 other file; get the full folder from GitHub.- name
- clarify
- description
- The research-domain clarification skill — find underspecified items in a thesis spec.md (prose wrong_if, universe rows without rationale, missing budget/expiry/pins, ambiguous pillars), ask the human structured questions WITH options (max 5 per round), encode the answers back into spec.md's Clarifications section, and re-evaluate checklists/thesis-quality.md after every write (Q32 bidirectional maintenance).
- role
- kit
- market_data_stage
- none
agentii.clarify
The 8th kit command — closes the gap Q32 itself assumed: upstream
speckit-clarify re-evaluates the quality checklist after every spec write, but
spec 046 never named the command that performs the clarification.
Invocation
Both phases run kit Python. Resolve the kit root once per shell first —
contracts/kit-root.md. The kit's scripts do NOT ship with the skills, and this
skill's old path (kit-scripts/, below) did not exist at all: it named a directory
that has never been in this repository, so every documented invocation of clarify
failed with "No such file or directory".
# Resolve the kit root — contracts/kit-root.md. Never assume the CWD is the checkout.
KIT=""
for c in "${AGENTII_KIT_ROOT:-}" \
"$(cat "$HOME/.claude/skills/agentii/.kit-root" 2>/dev/null)" \
"${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT:-}"; do
[ -n "$c" ] && [ -f "$c/scripts/agentii_cmd.py" ] && { KIT="$c"; break; }
done
if [ -z "$KIT" ]; then d="$PWD"; while [ "$d" != "/" ]; do
[ -f "$d/scripts/agentii_cmd.py" ] && { KIT="$d"; break; }; d="$(dirname "$d")"; done; fi
[ -n "$KIT" ] || { echo "agentii kit not found — see contracts/kit-root.md" >&2; exit 1; }Two phases
1. Analyze (deterministic)
python3 "$KIT/scripts/agentii_cmd.py" clarify --thesis theses/001-… --questionsEmits a JSON list of candidate questions, each with:
id(stable — content-derived from the target)target(pillar id / field / universe row)question(exact, in the spec's working language)options(derived where possible; null = free-form)
Candidates come from a deterministic scanner (never vibes): prose wrong_if
(missing metric=/threshold=/source=), universe rows without rationale,
missing budget, missing expiry_triggers, subscription tokens not in
TICKER × skill form, missing as_of/pins, pillars without priority.
2. Encode (after the human answers)
# $KIT comes from `## Invocation` above — re-run that resolver if this is a new shell.
python3 "$KIT/scripts/agentii_cmd.py" clarify --thesis theses/001-… --answers '<json>'- Appends each answer to
spec.md's## Clarificationssection (- [YYYY-MM-DD] Q: … → A: …). - Re-evaluates
checklists/thesis-quality.mdafter the write (Q32: the machine-maintained checklist is bidirectional — report "N/M items passing" plus regressions).
Rules
- Max 5 questions per round (upstream v1.0.4's tightened limit; spec recorded it as the convention to follow).
- Only ask what blocks the next step — every question must name the field it unblocks.
- Answers are encoded verbatim (professional English); a Chinese question is translated to English before encoding (the project's first language is English).
- Never ask about facts obtainable from the platform (that's the skills' job); clarify intent only.
© agentii-ai, Apache-2.0. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file
Files
SKILL.md and 1 other file (references) in plugins/vertical-plugins/scenarios/skills/agentii/clarify of agentii-ai/agentii-investment-intelligence.
- SKILL.md
- references/modes.md
Open the folder on GitHubat commit 86980e1
Used in 1 other repository
We found 1 copy of this SKILL.md (exact, near-identical or edited) in other folders, from 1 other GitHub owner. This page covers the copy in agentii-ai/agentii-investment-intelligence, which our catalogue first saw on October 7, 2026.
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| Humanities Thesisganzhi-black/humanities-thesis-skill | 630 | — | ~1.7k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Skill Thesis Writeryanlin-cheng/skill-thesis-writer | 207 | — | ~1.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | Custom licence | |
| Thesis CreatorStars-OC/thesis-creator | 228 | — | ~2.8k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT |
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Questions about Clarify
What does Clarify do?
The research-domain clarification skill — find underspecified items in a thesis spec.md (prose wrongif, universe rows without rationale, missing budget/expiry/pins, ambiguous pillars), ask the human…. Clarify is an agent skill from agentii-ai/agentii-investment-intelligence.md after every write (Q32 bidirectional maintenance).
When should I use Clarify?
Clarify fits situations like: tasks that involve Essays and academic help.
How do I install Clarify in Claude Code?
Run `npx skills add agentii-ai/agentii-investment-intelligence --skill clarify -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (plugins/vertical-plugins/scenarios/skills/agentii/clarify in agentii-ai/agentii-investment-intelligence) into .claude/skills/clarify in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.
How do I install Clarify in Codex?
Run `npx skills add agentii-ai/agentii-investment-intelligence --skill clarify -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (plugins/vertical-plugins/scenarios/skills/agentii/clarify in agentii-ai/agentii-investment-intelligence) into .agents/skills/clarify in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.
Can I use Clarify in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?
Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add agentii-ai/agentii-investment-intelligence --skill clarify -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/clarify, .gemini/skills/clarify, .github/skills/clarify and .opencode/skills/clarify in your project.
What does Clarify need to run?
Going by SKILL.md and its folder, Clarify needs the command-line tools its instructions call (python3). Our summary lists: Python 3.
Does Clarify access the network?
SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.
Is Clarify safe to install?
Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.
What licence does Clarify use?
Clarify is published under the Apache-2.0 licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.
How many tokens does Clarify use?
About 839 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 3.4k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full. Its references folder adds about 155 tokens, read only when the agent opens those files.
What are the alternatives to Clarify?
Skills that share tags, products or a category with Clarify: Academic Paper Strategist (AAASS554/codex-academic-paper-skills, 539 stars), Modeling Paper Rubric and Model Selector (yushui2022/MathModel-Skill, 452 stars), Humanities Thesis (ganzhi-black/humanities-thesis-skill, 630 stars) and Skill Thesis Writer (yanlin-cheng/skill-thesis-writer, 207 stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.
Who maintains Clarify?
agentii-ai (a GitHub user) maintains it in agentii-ai/agentii-investment-intelligence, which has 207 GitHub stars. The repository holds 79 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on September 29, 2026.
Source: agentii-ai/agentii-investment-intelligence on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.