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
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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 | $0.01153 | $0.01153 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00461 | $0.00461 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00231 | $0.00231 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00115 | $0.00115 |
Grade A, and why
research-writing-skill CLAUDE.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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 121 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
CLAUDE.md
This file provides guidance to Claude Code (claude.ai/code) when working with code in this repository.
Project purpose
This repository is a multi-platform skill/plugin for research-paper writing workflows (not a conventional app/service). It provides a routed skill system for brainstorming, chapter writing, literature review, figures, and LaTeX output.
The main execution model is:
- Entry/routing via
skills/using-research-writing/SKILL.md - Medium/full-paper orchestration via
skills/paper-orchestration/SKILL.md - Mandatory brainstorming via
skills/brainstorming-research/SKILL.md - Evidence-driven sections via
skills/evidence-driven-writing/SKILL.md - Chapter-by-chapter writing via
skills/writing-chapters/SKILL.md - Optional specialized skills (literature, experiments, figures, review, LaTeX, environment setup)
Key architecture (big picture)
skills/— Primary modular skill system (authoritative behavior).using-research-writing/is the workflow router and rule gate.paper-orchestration/handles medium/full-paper task packets, subagent routing, review gates, and capability-use audits.brainstorming-research/enforces conversational requirement collection before writing.evidence-driven-writing/forces evidence maps and paragraph blueprints before Introduction/Related Work drafting.writing-chapters/enforces one-chapter-at-a-time writing with two-stage review.experiment-results-planning/separates real results from mock planning data and defines experiment/table/figure handoff.
hooks/— Session-start injection for platforms (especially Claude/Cursor), including loading entry skill context.hooks/session-startinjectsusing-research-writingcontent at session start.hooks/hooks.jsonwires SessionStart for Claude plugin.
.claude-plugin/plugin.json,.cursor-plugin/plugin.json— Plugin metadata + hook wiring per platform.plan-template/— Canonical template files copied into user projectplan/.modules/— Legacy compatibility docs; keep in sync conceptually withskills/behavior.scripts/— Operational tooling:init_plan.sh/init_plan.ps1: bootstrapplan/fromplan-template/style_check.sh/style_check.ps1: writing-style checks for markdownscholar_search.py: multi-source literature retrieval + citation formattingpdf_parser.py: PDF text/section/metadata extraction
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 · 121 lines · 1,153 tokens per session scan A 232f1f5f0ab0
research-writing-skill CLAUDE.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 1,153 tokens to every session, about $0.0046 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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