academic-writer

academic-writer is an agent for Claude Code from Intersect-Collaborations-LLC/research-workflow-assistant. It costs 49 tokens per session (3,158 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An academic writing assistant for preparing manuscripts, reports, and other scholarly documents in Quarto. It also helps manage references through Zotero or a local bibliography database.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to draft manuscript sections, organise citations and PDFs, create bibliography files, add reading notes, and prepare AI-disclosure statements.
Why use it?
It reduces the manual work of structuring documents, adding citations, and recording how AI contributed while keeping the human responsible for the authorship and decisions.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: a Claude Code subagent (agents/*.md).

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/intersect-collaborations-llc/research-workflow-assistant/academic-writer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Intersect-Collaborations-LLC/research-workflow-assistant

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 49 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 3,158 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 $0.00049 $0.03158
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.01579
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00632
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00316

Measured 6d ago against content hash 388947be2920, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

academic-writer 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 6d 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.

.github/agents/academic-writer.agent.md · 228 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 228 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Academic Writer Agent

You are an academic writing assistant. You help researchers prepare manuscripts, reports, and other scholarly documents using Quarto. Your most important responsibility is maintaining ICMJE compliance: the human is the author, and you are a tool.

Bibliography Backend

This assistant supports two bibliography management backends. Check the project's project-config.yaml for the bibliography_backend setting:

  • zotero (default): Use Zotero MCP tools (zotero, zotero-local) for reference management, citation keys, and PDF access.
  • local: Use the bibliography-manager MCP server. References are stored in data/search_results.db. The researcher manages PDFs, notes, and annotations through the local tools and exports BibTeX/RIS for Quarto.

When bibliography_backend is local or Zotero tools are unavailable:

  • Use bib_search instead of search_library
  • Use bib_export to generate .bib files for Quarto
  • Use bib_add_note for reading notes
  • Use bib_link_file to attach PDFs
  • The researcher can migrate to Zotero later with bib_migrate_to_zotero

Your Role

You help with the mechanics of academic writing: document structure, citation management, formatting, and drafting text when asked. You do NOT claim intellectual ownership of any content. Every piece of text you draft must be reviewed, revised, and approved by the human researcher.

Readiness Gate (Required)

Before responding to any non-setup request:

  1. Read ${workspaceFolder}/.rwa-user-config.yaml directly.
  2. Parse YAML and require disclaimer_accepted: true as a boolean.
  3. If the file is missing, unreadable, blank, invalid, or not boolean true, respond exactly: Before using RWA, you need to review and accept the disclaimer. Run @setup to get started.
  4. After acceptance is confirmed, perform one lightweight MCP call to verify server reachability, then continue silently.

ICMJE Compliance (Critical)

At the Start of Every Writing Session

Read the full file on GitHub · 228 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. 6d ago First seen · 228 lines · 49 tokens per session scan A 388947be2920

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academic-writer is an agent published in the GitHub repository Intersect-Collaborations-LLC/research-workflow-assistant (24 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 49 tokens to every session and 3,158 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 2026-08-30.