Is deep-research safe to install?

No critical findings, some security notes. The scan covers prompt injection, hidden Unicode, remote code execution and credential access in every text file of the skill. It cannot judge intent, so read any flagged line in context before installing.

How was this score calculated?

Four checks of 25 points each: spec, efficiency, clarity and security. Findings take points off the check they belong to, and any critical finding caps the grade at F. The same scanner runs in your browser at proskills.dev/scan.

Is this report current?

It was made from commit cfd081d on 2026-10-19. If the skill has changed since, paste the new version into the scanner for a fresh score.

I wrote this skill. Can I fix the score or have the page removed?

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Scan reports · Imbad0202/academic-research-skills

deep-research: scan report

Universal deep research agent team. 13-agent pipeline for rigorous academic research on any topic. 8 modes: full research, quick brief, paper review, lit-review, fact-check, three-way literature scan, Socratic guided… An automated scan of this public skill from Imbad0202/academic-research-skills: security, token cost, spec and clarity, with every finding and its fix.

Result

Verdict

deep-research

25/100 · grade F

Imbad0202/academic-research-skills/deep-research at cfd081d

Spec 0 · Efficiency 0 · Clarity 25 · Security 0 (each out of 25)

Always loaded 259 tokens · on trigger 12,366 · on demand 95,655

eff/body-tokens warn · SKILL.md~12366 tokens load every time this triggers. Aim for under 5,000; split into reference files read on demand.
sec/hidden-comment warn · SKILL.mdHTML comment carries instructions the user won't see rendered.
sec/hidden-comment warn · agents/bibliography_agent.mdHTML comment carries instructions the user won't see rendered.
sec/hidden-comment warn · agents/devils_advocate_agent.mdHTML comment carries instructions the user won't see rendered.
sec/hidden-comment warn · agents/editor_in_chief_agent.mdHTML comment carries instructions the user won't see rendered.
sec/hidden-comment warn · agents/ethics_review_agent.mdHTML comment carries instructions the user won't see rendered.
sec/hidden-comment warn · agents/report_compiler_agent.mdHTML comment carries instructions the user won't see rendered.
sec/hidden-comment warn · agents/risk_of_bias_agent.mdHTML comment carries instructions the user won't see rendered.
sec/hidden-comment warn · agents/source_verification_agent.mdHTML comment carries instructions the user won't see rendered.
sec/hidden-comment warn · agents/synthesis_agent.mdHTML comment carries instructions the user won't see rendered.
sec/hidden-comment warn · agents/timeline_extraction_agent.mdHTML comment carries instructions the user won't see rendered.
eff/body-lines warn · SKILL.mdSKILL.md body is 717 lines; keep it under 500 and move detail into reference files.
eff/description-trigger warn · SKILL.mddescription doesn't say *when* to use the skill ("Use when …"). Agents decide from this line alone.
spec/broken-ref warn · SKILL.md:23References .claude/CLAUDE.md, which isn't in the skill folder.
spec/broken-ref warn · SKILL.md:23References shared/references/routing_core.md, which isn't in the skill folder.
spec/broken-ref warn · SKILL.md:35References shared/references/intent_clarification_protocol.md, which isn't in the skill folder.
spec/broken-ref warn · SKILL.md:137References shared/mode_spectrum.md, which isn't in the skill folder.
spec/broken-ref warn · SKILL.md:166References references/mode_selection_guide.md, which isn't in the skill folder.
spec/broken-ref warn · SKILL.md:379References academic-pipeline/references/passport_as_reset_boundary.md, which isn't in the skill folder.
spec/broken-ref warn · SKILL.md:403References references/socratic_mode_protocol.md, which isn't in the skill folder.
spec/broken-ref warn · SKILL.md:417References shared/compliance_checkpoint_protocol.md, which isn't in the skill folder.
spec/broken-ref warn · SKILL.md:419References references/systematic_review_protocol.md, which isn't in the skill folder.
spec/broken-ref warn · SKILL.md:500References references/failure_paths.md, which isn't in the skill folder.
spec/broken-ref warn · SKILL.md:521References references/literature_monitoring_strategies.md, which isn't in the skill folder.
spec/broken-ref warn · SKILL.md:561References academic-pipeline/SKILL.md, which isn't in the skill folder.
spec/broken-ref warn · SKILL.md:631References templates/preregistration_template.md, which isn't in the skill folder.
spec/broken-ref warn · SKILL.md:632References templates/prisma_protocol_template.md, which isn't in the skill folder.
spec/broken-ref warn · SKILL.md:633References templates/prisma_report_template.md, which isn't in the skill folder.
spec/broken-ref warn · SKILL.md:675References references/source_quality_hierarchy.md, which isn't in the skill folder.
spec/broken-ref warn · SKILL.md:686References references/cross_agent_quality_definitions.md, which isn't in the skill folder.
spec/broken-ref warn · SKILL.md:729References references/changelog.md, which isn't in the skill folder.
eff/orphan-file info · agents/timeline_extraction_agent.mdagents/timeline_extraction_agent.md is never mentioned in SKILL.md, so the agent won't know to read it.

Where it comes from

Source

Fact	Value
Repository	Imbad0202/academic-research-skills
Skill folder	deep-research
Stars	52,898
License	None stated
Commit scanned	cfd081d
Scanned	2026-10-19
Files	25

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Is deep-research safe to install?: No critical findings, some security notes. The scan covers prompt injection, hidden Unicode, remote code execution and credential access in every text file of the skill. It cannot judge intent, so read any flagged line in context before installing.
How was this score calculated?: Four checks of 25 points each: spec, efficiency, clarity and security. Findings take points off the check they belong to, and any critical finding caps the grade at F. The same scanner runs in your browser at proskills.dev/scan.
Is this report current?: It was made from commit cfd081d on 2026-10-19. If the skill has changed since, paste the new version into the scanner for a fresh score.
I wrote this skill. Can I fix the score or have the page removed?: Fix the findings and push. The reports are rebuilt from GitHub on a schedule, so the next run picks the change up. To have the page removed, open an issue on the ProSkills GitHub repo.

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