Norman-bury/research-writing-skill is an agent skill that turns academic paper writing into a tracked, reusable workflow with planning, drafting, reviews, figures, literature work, and LaTeX outputs. It is intended for undergraduate students, graduate students, and early-career researchers working on theses, coursework papers, or initial submissions. Its catalogue entries are the skills, instructions, plugin, and hook that implement the workflow across coding-agent platforms.
Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to Norman-bury/research-writing-skill. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.
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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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00492 | $0.00492 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00197 | $0.00197 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00098 | $0.00098 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00049 | $0.00049 |
Grade A, and why
research-writing-skill AGENTS.md 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.
What it actually says
科研写作助手 (Research Writing Assistant)
本项目包含科研论文写作技能集。当用户提出与论文写作相关的任务时，请调用相应技能。
技能列表
| 技能名称 | 路径 | 用途 |
|---|---|---|
| using-research-writing | skills/using-research-writing/SKILL.md | 入口技能，定义规则和路由 |
| paper-orchestration | skills/paper-orchestration/SKILL.md | 中型/整篇任务编排、任务包和能力使用审计 |
| brainstorming-research | skills/brainstorming-research/SKILL.md | 头脑风暴，确定论文类型和结构 |
| evidence-driven-writing | skills/evidence-driven-writing/SKILL.md | 文献驱动的引言、相关工作和背景段落 |
| writing-chapters | skills/writing-chapters/SKILL.md | 章节写作 |
| experiment-results-planning | skills/experiment-results-planning/SKILL.md | 实验协议、结果表格、mock 数据边界 |
| latex-output | skills/latex-output/SKILL.md | LaTeX 输出 |
| literature-review | skills/literature-review/SKILL.md | 文献综述 |
| figures-python | skills/figures-python/SKILL.md | Python 图表 |
| peer-review | skills/peer-review/SKILL.md | 自审检查 |
使用方式
- 用户提出论文写作任务
- 调用
using-research-writing技能确定流程 - 中型或整篇任务先调用
paper-orchestration - 按技能指引完成头脑风暴、证据映射、章节写作和验证
核心规则
- 任何写作任务前必须完成头脑风暴
- 中型任务必须有任务包、两阶段 review 和 capability-use audit
- 引言和相关工作必须先完成 evidence map
- skill 改造后运行
scripts/check_skill_integrity.ps1 - 稿件交付前运行
scripts/research_quality_gate.ps1 -ProjectPath <paper-project> - 必须创建 plan/ 目录记录项目信息
- 每章写完必须让用户确认
- 绝不编造文献
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.
- 2mo ago First seen · 37 lines · 492 tokens per session scan A d1751b5abc2f
research-writing-skill AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository Norman-bury/research-writing-skill (3,594 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 492 tokens to every session, about $0.0020 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 2026-08-30.
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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