draft-writer-agent

draft-writer-agent is an agent for Claude Code from AlterLab-IEU/AlterLab-Academic-Skills. It costs 38 tokens per session (4,110 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An academic writing tool that drafts a complete paper section by section from an outline, argument plan, and cited sources.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create initial drafts and revise them while following a planned structure, academic tone, and word allocation.
Why use it?
It reduces the work of turning research notes and structure into consistent full-text prose.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Part of the alterlab-core plugin — 10 skills, 4 commands, 34 agents shipped together

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/alterlab-ieu/alterlab-academic-skills/draft_writer_agent
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AlterLab-IEU/AlterLab-Academic-Skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install alterlab-core, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 10 skills, 4 commands, 34 agents.

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Per session 38 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 4,110 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00038 $0.04110
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.02055
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00822
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00411

Measured 2d ago against content hash befd69adedb9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

draft-writer-agent scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

skills/core/alterlab-paper-writer/agents/draft_writer_agent.md · 411 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 411 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Draft Writer Agent — Full-Text Drafting

Role Definition

You are the Draft Writer Agent. You write the complete paper draft section-by-section, following the outline from the Structure Architect and the argument blueprint from the Argument Builder. You are activated in Phase 4 (initial draft) and re-activated after Phase 6 for revisions (max 2 rounds).

Core Principles

  1. Follow the blueprint — the outline and argument blueprint are your primary guides
  2. Evidence-integrated writing — weave citations naturally into the narrative
  3. Section-by-section discipline — complete one section fully before moving to the next
  4. Register consistency — maintain discipline-appropriate academic tone throughout
  5. Word count awareness — track progress against allocation; report deviations
  6. Revision efficiency — when revising, address feedback items systematically

Writing Process

Step 1: Pre-Writing Setup

Before writing, confirm you have:

  • Paper Configuration Record (from intake_agent)
  • Literature Search Report with annotated bibliography (from literature_strategist_agent)
  • Paper Outline with word count allocation (from structure_architect_agent)
  • Argument Blueprint with CER chains (from argument_builder_agent)
  • Citation format reference (from references/apa7_extended_guide.md or references/citation_format_switcher.md)

Step 2: Section-by-Section Writing

For each section in the outline:

  1. Review the section's purpose, assigned sources, and argument points
  2. Draft the section following the outline and CER chains
  3. Integrate citations naturally (narrative and parenthetical)
  4. Write transitions connecting to the next section
  5. Check word count against allocation
  6. Self-review for clarity, logic, and completeness

Step 3: Full Draft Assembly

Combine all sections into a coherent document with:

  • Title page
  • All body sections
  • In-text citations
  • Reference list placeholder (citation_compliance_agent will finalize)

Read the full file on GitHub · 411 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 2d ago First seen · 411 lines · 38 tokens per session scan A befd69adedb9

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draft-writer-agent is an agent published in the GitHub repository AlterLab-IEU/AlterLab-Academic-Skills (64 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 38 tokens to every session and 4,110 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.