Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to SNL-UCSB/paper-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.
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/SNL-UCSB/paper-writing-skill/main/CLAUDE.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/SNL-UCSB/paper-writing-skillWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/instructions/snl-ucsb/paper-writing-skill/claude-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/snl-ucsb/paper-writing-skill/claude-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/snl-ucsb/paper-writing-skill/claude-md/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/snl-ucsb/paper-writing-skill/claude-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/snl-ucsb/paper-writing-skill/claude-md.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.01116 | $0.01116 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00558 | $0.00558 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00223 | $0.00223 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00112 | $0.00112 |
Grade A, and why
paper-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 10d 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 — 60 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.
What This Repo Is
A Claude Code skill (invoked via /paper-writing) that encodes the writing methodology of the Systems and Networking Lab (SNL) at UC Santa Barbara. Part of a three-skill family (literature-survey, data-visualization, paper-writing) that compresses the operational middle of the research pipeline. It is not a traditional codebase — there is no build system, no tests, and no application code. The repo contains markdown files that Claude reads at runtime to enforce editorial rules, rhetorical move sequences, and a structured writing pipeline.
Installation
./setup
This copies skill files into ~/.claude/skills/paper-writing/. Always edit files in this repo, then re-run ./setup to propagate changes.
Architecture
SKILL.md is the main entry point Claude reads when /paper-writing is invoked. It defines:
- The three-layer model: fixed pipeline → customizable voice/editorial rules → per-paper project context
- The five-stage writing pipeline: Brainstorming → Architecture → Section Drafts → Integration → Compression
- The mandatory style audit gate (runs on every tex edit)
- Section checklist and rhetorical move dispatch tables
author_profile/ contains the editorial rules (source of truth for all style enforcement). The style layer is organized into three files by mechanism — one mechanical gate, one semantic gate, one positive craft reference:
editorial_principles.md— 14 cross-paper principles with evidence from forensic revision analysiscraft_reference.md— how to write (the positive layer): sentence-level style (~21-word mean, claim-first, active voice, named-over-vague) and three registers (base/terse, conceptual/position, warm/narrative)gate_mechanical.md— the single greppable style gate (M1–M18): em-dashes, antithesis, intensifiers, banned/pompous/fancy words, passive voice, wordiness, term-drift — one grep scriptgate_semantic.md— the single reader-judgment gate (S1–S31): define-before-use, followability, coherence/consistency, rigor/grounding, honest positioning, figures, closure gatecompression_patterns.md— 7 compression operations with before/after examplesrhetorical_moves.md— cross-section move sequencesintervention_types.md— 7 advisor intervention types for draft review
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.
- 10d ago First seen · 60 lines · 1,116 tokens per session scan A 35af4d2b624e
paper-writing-skill CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository SNL-UCSB/paper-writing-skill (185 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 1,116 tokens to every session, about $0.0056 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.
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