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by fcakyon · MCP Server · ★ 399
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phd-skills Research integrity plugin for Claude Code — paper auditing, citation verification, experiment analysis, and methodology-first skills for academic workflows. Built by Fatih Cagatay Akyon (1300+ citations, 7 patents) after 200+ Claude Code sessions, tens of critical AI mistakes caught the hard way, and thousands of hours of PhD research. Every guardrail in this plugin traces to a real mistake. Why This Plugin Exists I use Claude Code daily for my PhD. It's powerful, but it makes research-specific mistakes that cost hours: It typed "done?" as "dont?" and launched an unwanted upload of thousands of files It analyzed my full dataset when I asked for a specific 4k/2k/2k split It claimed a test covered a bug it had never actually verified It never once looked at a figure it generated — just trusted the numbers Other plugins give you more commands. This plugin gives you guardrails. Install Then run inside Claude Code to configure notifications, LaTeX, and allowlist.
| Stars | 399 |
| Forks | 34 |
| Language | Shell |
| Category | MCP Server |
| License | MIT |
| Quality Score | 73.4467912082205/100 |
| Open Issues | 1 |
| Last Updated | 2026-09-16 |
| Created | 2026-03-11 |
| Platforms | claude-code, cli, mcp |
| Est. Tokens | ~8k |
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phd-skills is PhD Research Skills for Claude Code: paper reproduction, experiment design, paper review, result comparison and more.. It is categorized as a MCP Server with 399 GitHub stars.
phd-skills is primarily written in Shell. It covers topics such as academic, agents, ai.
You can find installation instructions and usage details in the phd-skills GitHub repository at github.com/fcakyon/phd-skills. The project has 399 stars and 34 forks, indicating an active community.
phd-skills is released under the MIT license, making it free to use and modify according to the license terms.
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Grades come from a rule-based scan built on the SlowMist agent-security taxonomy, covering 11 red-flag categories including credential harvesting, data exfiltration, and curl | sh installers. It is a first-layer scan, not a manual audit — we say so rather than overstate it.
The scale of the problem is documented independently: Liu et al. (2026), in a study of 31,132 agent skills, report that 26.1% contain security vulnerabilities. Our own full-catalog census is published as a citable open dataset.
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