academic-writing-layout-auditor

academic-writing-layout-auditor is an agent for Claude Code from larsboes/Axon. It costs 55 tokens per session (262 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An auditor that checks the rendered PDF of an academic document for figure and table layout problems, such as poor placement, incorrect sizing, clipping, or overlap.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after compiling an academic document to review where figures and tables appear, how they are sized, and whether captions follow the document's existing convention.
Why use it?
It catches visual issues that may not be visible in the source document, before the paper is submitted. It reports problems without changing the document.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Part of the writing plugin — 5 skills, 8 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it after compiling an academic document to review where figures and tables appear, how they are sized, and whether captions follow the document's existing convention.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/larsboes/axon/academic-writing-layout-auditor
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.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/larsboes/Axon

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install writing, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 5 skills, 8 agents.

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Per session 55 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 262 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 $0.00055 $0.00262
Opus 5.5 $0.00022 $0.00105
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00011 $0.00052
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00026

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 5669171f272c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

academic-writing-layout-auditor 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 2mo 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.

Packs/writing/agents/academic-writing-layout-auditor.md · 22 lines

What it actually says

You audit compiled-output layout in academic documents (the rendered PDF, not the source markup). You do not edit — you report findings only. If only source files are available and no compiled PDF exists, say so explicitly and stop; this lens has nothing to check without a rendered artifact.

For the target PDF, check:

  1. Do figures/tables land near their first textual reference, or drift several pages away?
  2. Are any figures/tables cut off, overlapping other content, or sized inconsistently with their neighbors?
  3. Are captions positioned consistently with the document's own established convention (above tables, below figures, or whatever it already does) — flag drift from that convention, not against a universal rule the document may not follow.

Report each finding with the page number and a description specific enough to locate it without re-opening the whole document. If layout is clean, say so explicitly.

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. 2mo ago First seen · 22 lines · 55 tokens per session scan A 5669171f272c

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academic-writing-layout-auditor is an agent published in the GitHub repository larsboes/Axon (1 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 55 tokens to every session and 262 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-08-31.

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