Scientific Toolkit Skill
zLanqing/codex-claude-academic-skills
Research computing toolkit for optoelectronic information science and engineering, MATLAB/Octave, Python scientific analysis, signal processing, image processing, statistics, simulation…
Design and analyze studies in sociolinguistics, language variation, acoustic phonetics, discourse analysis, language contact, and computational linguistics.
Install Scholar Ling
$ npx skills add joshzyj/open-scholar-skill --skill scholar-ling -a claude-codeProject install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.
$ gh skill install joshzyj/open-scholar-skill scholar-ling --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/joshzyj/open-scholar-skill.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/.claude/skills/scholar-ling .claude/skills/scholar-ling && 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 "scholar-ling" agent skill from https://github.com/joshzyj/open-scholar-skill/tree/main/.claude/skills/scholar-ling into .claude/skills/scholar-ling/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "scholar-ling", 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/joshzyj/open-scholar-skill/tree/main/.claude/skills/scholar-lingType 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 joshzyj/open-scholar-skill --skill scholar-ling -a codexProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.
$ gh skill install joshzyj/open-scholar-skill scholar-ling --agent codexProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/joshzyj/open-scholar-skill.git skills-src && mkdir -p .agents/skills && cp -r skills-src/.claude/skills/scholar-ling .agents/skills/scholar-ling && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.agents/skills/ instead of .agents/skills for a personal install.
Codex skills documentation · loads skills from .agents/skills/
Install the "scholar-ling" agent skill from https://github.com/joshzyj/open-scholar-skill/tree/main/.claude/skills/scholar-ling into .agents/skills/scholar-ling/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "scholar-ling", 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 joshzyj/open-scholar-skill --skill scholar-ling -a cursorProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.
$ gh skill install joshzyj/open-scholar-skill scholar-ling --agent cursorProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/joshzyj/open-scholar-skill.git skills-src && mkdir -p .cursor/skills && cp -r skills-src/.claude/skills/scholar-ling .cursor/skills/scholar-ling && 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 "scholar-ling" agent skill from https://github.com/joshzyj/open-scholar-skill/tree/main/.claude/skills/scholar-ling into .cursor/skills/scholar-ling/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "scholar-ling", 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/joshzyj/open-scholar-skill.git --path .claude/skills/scholar-ling--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 joshzyj/open-scholar-skill --skill scholar-ling -a gemini-cliProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.
$ gh skill install joshzyj/open-scholar-skill scholar-ling --agent gemini-cliProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/joshzyj/open-scholar-skill.git skills-src && mkdir -p .gemini/skills && cp -r skills-src/.claude/skills/scholar-ling .gemini/skills/scholar-ling && 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 "scholar-ling" agent skill from https://github.com/joshzyj/open-scholar-skill/tree/main/.claude/skills/scholar-ling into .gemini/skills/scholar-ling/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "scholar-ling", 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 joshzyj/open-scholar-skill scholar-lingInstalls 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 joshzyj/open-scholar-skill --skill scholar-ling -a github-copilotProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.copilot/skills/.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/joshzyj/open-scholar-skill.git skills-src && mkdir -p .github/skills && cp -r skills-src/.claude/skills/scholar-ling .github/skills/scholar-ling && 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 "scholar-ling" agent skill from https://github.com/joshzyj/open-scholar-skill/tree/main/.claude/skills/scholar-ling into .github/skills/scholar-ling/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "scholar-ling", 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 joshzyj/open-scholar-skill --skill scholar-ling -a opencodeOpenCode documents no install command of its own. Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.config/opencode/skills/.
$ gh skill install joshzyj/open-scholar-skill scholar-ling --agent opencodeProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/joshzyj/open-scholar-skill.git skills-src && mkdir -p .opencode/skills && cp -r skills-src/.claude/skills/scholar-ling .opencode/skills/scholar-ling && 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 "scholar-ling" agent skill from https://github.com/joshzyj/open-scholar-skill/tree/main/.claude/skills/scholar-ling into .opencode/skills/scholar-ling/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "scholar-ling", 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
scholar-ling- GitHub stars
- 168
- Token cost
- ~6.7k tokens
- SKILL.md length
- 2,090 words
- Files
- 12 (incl. references)
- Skills in repo
- 30
- Repo updated
- First seen
- Licence
- Custom licence
At a glance
Design and analyze studies in sociolinguistics, language variation, acoustic phonetics, discourse analysis, language contact, and computational linguistics.
- Works in 2 steps: Setup → 5 — Data Safety Gate (MANDATORY, blocking)
- Language in Society
- SKILL.md covers Arguments, Dispatch Table, Step 0: Setup and Step 0.5 — Data Safety Gate…, plus 3 more sections
- Calls bash
What it does
Scholar Ling is an agent skill from joshzyj/open-scholar-skill. Design and analyze studies in sociolinguistics, language variation, acoustic phonetics, discourse analysis, language contact, and computational linguistics. Covers VARBRUL/Rbrul for variation analysis, mixed-effects models for acoustic data, conversation analysis, critical discourse analysis, language attitudes (matched guise), corpus linguistics, computational sociolinguistics (conText embedding regression, LLM annotation for linguistic coding, BERT classification, semantic change detection, STM topic models)…
Its SKILL.md is about 6.7k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 12 other files, including reference files (for example `references/discourse-analysis.md`, `references/module-01-theory.md` and `references/module-02-quantitative.md`).
It sits in Data & Analytics, covering Data visualization, Anomaly detection and Embeddings. It works with Python. The repository describes itself as: Open scholar skill, a claude code plugin, for academic research.
When your agent uses it
- Language in Society
- Journal of Sociolinguistics
- Applied Linguistics
- Nature Human Behaviour
Example prompts
- “/scholar-ling”
Requirements
- Python 3
Workflow steps
2 steps, taken from the step headings in SKILL.md.
- Setup
- 5 — Data Safety Gate (MANDATORY, blocking)
What it can do on your machine
Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 6e5ac8e. 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:
bash
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
Scholar Ling loads about 6.7k tokens when it runs, and up to ~32k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 250 tokens; SKILL.md has 2,090 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
Its licence (Custom licence) doesn't allow us to republish the file, so here is its outline and opening line. It has 2,090 words (~6,655 tokens).
“You are an expert sociolinguist with deep knowledge of quantitative variation analysis, acoustic phonetics, conversation analysis, discourse analysis, language contact, language attitudes, and computational approaches to language in society. You design rigorous studies, execute analyses with R and Python, and…”
- name
- scholar-ling
- tools
- Read, WebSearch, Write, Bash, Agent
- argument-hint
- [variation|acoustic|corpus|CA|CDA|attitudes|contact|computational|experimental|MDA|TTS-guise] [linguistic phenomenon, population, and data type, e.g…
- user-invocable
- true
Files
SKILL.md and 11 other files (references) in .claude/skills/scholar-ling of joshzyj/open-scholar-skill.
- SKILL.md
- references/discourse-analysis.md
- references/module-01-theory.md
- references/module-02-quantitative.md
- references/module-03-qualitative.md
- references/module-04-attitudes.md
- references/module-05-corpus.md
- references/module-06-computational.md
- references/module-07-experimental.md
- references/module-08-biber-mda.md
- references/module-09-tts-mgt.md
- references/socioling-methods.md
Open the folder on GitHubat commit 6e5ac8e
Compare with similar skills
Scholar Ling next to the 5 skills that share the most tags, products or categories with it. Stars are the repository's; “used in” counts other GitHub owners with a copy.
| Skill | Stars | Used in | Tokens | Auto-check | Licence | Repo updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scholar Ling this skilljoshzyj/open-scholar-skill | 168 | — | ~6.7k | Automated safety check: Pass | Custom licence | |
| Scientific Toolkit SkillzLanqing/codex-claude-academic-skills | 4.7k | — | ~1.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Scientific Figure MakingChenLiu-1996/figures4papers | 8.3k | — | ~557 | Automated safety check: Pass | Custom licence | |
| Literature Surveyai4s-research/ai4s-skills | 237 | 2 repos | ~2k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| FigMirrorVILA-Lab/FigMirror | 523 | — | ~2.4k | Automated safety check: Pass | None | |
| Agent Figure GalleryDsadd4/AgentFigureGallery | 163 | — | ~643 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT |
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Questions about Scholar Ling
What does Scholar Ling do?
Design and analyze studies in sociolinguistics, language variation, acoustic phonetics, discourse analysis, language contact, and computational linguistics. Scholar Ling is an agent skill from joshzyj/open-scholar-skill. Design and analyze studies in sociolinguistics, language variation, acoustic phonetics, discourse analysis, language contact, and computational linguistics.
When should I use Scholar Ling?
Scholar Ling fits situations like: language in Society; journal of Sociolinguistics; applied Linguistics; nature Human Behaviour.
How do I install Scholar Ling in Claude Code?
Run `npx skills add joshzyj/open-scholar-skill --skill scholar-ling -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (.claude/skills/scholar-ling in joshzyj/open-scholar-skill) into .claude/skills/scholar-ling in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.
How do I install Scholar Ling in Codex?
Run `npx skills add joshzyj/open-scholar-skill --skill scholar-ling -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (.claude/skills/scholar-ling in joshzyj/open-scholar-skill) into .agents/skills/scholar-ling in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.
Can I use Scholar Ling 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 joshzyj/open-scholar-skill --skill scholar-ling -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/scholar-ling, .gemini/skills/scholar-ling, .github/skills/scholar-ling and .opencode/skills/scholar-ling in your project.
What does Scholar Ling need to run?
Going by SKILL.md and its folder, Scholar Ling needs the command-line tools its instructions call (bash). Our summary lists: Python 3.
Does Scholar Ling 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 Scholar Ling 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 Scholar Ling use?
Scholar Ling has a licence file (the repository's licence) that doesn't match a standard licence. Read it on GitHub before reusing the skill.
How many tokens does Scholar Ling use?
About 6.7k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 27k 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 25k tokens, read only when the agent opens those files.
What are the alternatives to Scholar Ling?
Skills that share tags, products or a category with Scholar Ling: Scientific Toolkit Skill (zLanqing/codex-claude-academic-skills, 4.7k stars), Scientific Figure Making (ChenLiu-1996/figures4papers, 8.3k stars), Literature Survey (ai4s-research/ai4s-skills, 237 stars) and FigMirror (VILA-Lab/FigMirror, 523 stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.
Who maintains Scholar Ling?
joshzyj (a GitHub user) maintains it in joshzyj/open-scholar-skill, which has 168 GitHub stars. The repository holds 30 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on September 18, 2026.
Source: joshzyj/open-scholar-skill on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.