Agent skill

Scholar Openai

by joshzyj in joshzyj/open-scholar-skill

External review via OpenAI Codex CLI agents. An agent skill from joshzyj/open-scholar-skill.

Custom licenceAuto-check passedResearch & Science

Install Scholar Openai

skills CLI
$ npx skills add joshzyj/open-scholar-skill --skill scholar-openai -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install joshzyj/open-scholar-skill scholar-openai --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ 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-openai .claude/skills/scholar-openai && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.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/

Facts

Skill name
scholar-openai
GitHub stars
168
Token cost
~6.1k tokens
SKILL.md length
1,577 words
Files
2 (incl. references)
Skills in repo
30
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
Custom licence

At a glance

External review via OpenAI Codex CLI agents. An agent skill from joshzyj/open-scholar-skill.

  • Works in 7 steps: Setup & Prerequisite Check → Build Review Prompts → Spawn Codex Agents in Parallel → …
  • Tasks that involve Customer feedback analysis
  • SKILL.md covers ABSOLUTE RULES, Arguments, ABSOLUTE RULE — NEVER… and Dispatch Table, plus 10 more sections
  • Calls codex and bash; reaches github.com

What it does

Scholar Openai is an agent skill from joshzyj/open-scholar-skill. External review via OpenAI Codex CLI agents. Spawns multiple parallel Codex agents (codex exec) to independently review analysis scripts, verify manuscript-to-output consistency, check statistical logic, and audit reproducibility. Each agent writes a review report to disk. Claude reads all reports, synthesizes a consolidated review with severity-ranked issues, and presents a fix checklist. Read-only — diagnoses but does not modify any project files.

Its SKILL.md is about 6.1k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 2 other files, including reference files (for example `references/codex-review-prompts.md`).

It sits in Research & Science, covering Customer feedback analysis, Reproducible research and Citation management. It works with OpenAI. The repository describes itself as: Open scholar skill, a claude code plugin, for academic research.

When your agent uses it

  • Tasks that involve Customer feedback analysis
  • Tasks that involve Reproducible research
  • Tasks that involve Citation management

Example prompts

  • “/scholar-openai”

Requirements

  • Node.js

Workflow steps

7 steps, taken from the step headings in SKILL.md.

  1. Setup & Prerequisite Check
  2. Build Review Prompts
  3. Spawn Codex Agents in Parallel
  4. Collect & Read Agent Reports
  5. Synthesize Consolidated Review
  6. Present Results to User
  7. Save Output

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:

    • codex
    • bash

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    Hosts in commands or code, which the agent is likely to contact:

    • github.com

    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 Openai loads about 6.1k tokens when it runs, and up to ~8.7k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 117 tokens; SKILL.md has 1,577 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~117
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~6.1k
With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them
~8.7k

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 1,577 words (~6,124 tokens).

“You are a review orchestrator that spawns independent OpenAI Codex agents to review a social science research project. Each Codex agent runs non-interactively (codex exec), reads project files in a sandbox, and writes a structured review to disk. You then…”

— opening of SKILL.md by joshzyj, Custom licence
name
scholar-openai
tools
Read, Bash, Write, Glob, Grep, Agent
argument-hint
[code|stats|logic|full|custom] [manuscript-path] [scripts-dir], e.g., 'full output/drafts/full-paper-2026-03-10.md'
user-invocable
true

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

SKILL.md and 1 other file (references) in .claude/skills/scholar-openai of joshzyj/open-scholar-skill.

  • SKILL.md
  • references/codex-review-prompts.md

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 6e5ac8e

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Questions about Scholar Openai

What does Scholar Openai do?

External review via OpenAI Codex CLI agents. An agent skill from joshzyj/open-scholar-skill. Scholar Openai is an agent skill from joshzyj/open-scholar-skill. External review via OpenAI Codex CLI agents.

When should I use Scholar Openai?

Scholar Openai fits situations like: tasks that involve Customer feedback analysis; tasks that involve Reproducible research; tasks that involve Citation management.

How do I install Scholar Openai in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add joshzyj/open-scholar-skill --skill scholar-openai -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (.claude/skills/scholar-openai in joshzyj/open-scholar-skill) into .claude/skills/scholar-openai in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Scholar Openai in Codex?

Run `npx skills add joshzyj/open-scholar-skill --skill scholar-openai -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (.claude/skills/scholar-openai in joshzyj/open-scholar-skill) into .agents/skills/scholar-openai in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Scholar Openai 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-openai -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-openai, .gemini/skills/scholar-openai, .github/skills/scholar-openai and .opencode/skills/scholar-openai in your project.

What does Scholar Openai need to run?

Going by SKILL.md and its folder, Scholar Openai needs the command-line tools its instructions call (codex and bash). Our summary lists: Node.js.

Does Scholar Openai access the network?

SKILL.md names 1 domain. In commands or code: github.com; the agent is likely to contact it when it follows the instructions. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Scholar Openai 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 Openai use?

Scholar Openai 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 Openai use?

About 6.1k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 24k 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 2.6k tokens, read only when the agent opens those files.

What are the alternatives to Scholar Openai?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Scholar Openai: Peer Review (K-Dense-AI/claude-scientific-writer, 2.4k stars), Annotate Paper (54yyyu/zotero-mcp, 5.3k stars), Autonomous Research (federicodeponte/opendraft, 507 stars) and Academic Integrity Rewrite (lin1111-1/academic-integrity-rewrite, 102 stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Scholar Openai?

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.