PaperSpine is an academic writing system that guides an agent through studying strong papers, defining a manuscript's contribution, planning its structure, and revising the resulting document. It supports writing tasks such as journal papers, conference papers, reports, reviews, and competition essays, with outputs including LaTeX, PDF, and Word. The catalogue entries package its workflow for supported agent hosts.
Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to WUBING2023/PaperSpine. 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/WUBING2023/PaperSpine/main/CLAUDE.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/WUBING2023/PaperSpineWrote 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/wubing2023/paperspine/claude-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/wubing2023/paperspine/claude-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/wubing2023/paperspine/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/wubing2023/paperspine/claude-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/wubing2023/paperspine/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 | $0.00944 | $0.00944 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00378 | $0.00378 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00189 | $0.00189 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00094 | $0.00094 |
Grade A, and why
PaperSpine 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 1mo 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 — 76 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
PaperSpine Project Memory (V4)
Project Purpose
PaperSpine is a contribution-first paper and report writing skill for Claude
Code, Codex, OpenClaw, and Hermes CLI. It researches the target scene, confirms
the controlling contribution and motivation with the user, then writes/rewrites/
builds end to end with LaTeX/PDF/Word output. The methodology is enforced by
gates: Contribution-First (confirmed_contribution.md), Results-as-
Validation (results_validation.md), Reviewer-Aware (reviewer_audit.md).
Motivation is still required, but it supports the confirmed contribution.
Version: 4.0.0 (canonical: dist/paperspine_version.json, auto-propagated to
.claude-plugin/plugin.json and marketplace.json by the sync script).
Architecture: ONE skill
V4 collapsed the old 12-skill flat suite into a single paper-spine skill —
an orchestrator with 12-stage routing inside SKILL.md, references/ playbooks
for each stage, and agents/ role cards for parallel sub-agents. There are no
longer separate worker skills.
Single source of truth: src/
src/skill/SKILL.md— orchestrator + command/stage routing tablessrc/skill/references/*.md— per-stage playbooks (intake, research, citation, rewrite, build, humanize, latex, audit, translate, submission, respond, resume, contribution, results-validation, reviewer-audit, scenarios, …)src/skill/agents/*— role cards for fan-out agents (research scene/sota/ exemplar, reviewer method/evidence/writing) +openai.yamlsrc/scripts/*.py— deterministic gate/check scripts (standard library only):sync_local_installs.py,contribution_check.py,results_validation_check.py,reviewer_audit_check.py,progress_check.py,submission_check.py,respond_check.py,citation_verification_en.py,latex_guard.py,humanize_check.py,style_metrics.py, etc.src/adapters/{claude,codex,hermes}— per-host frontmatter/manifest overlays
Generated: dist/ (never hand-edit)
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.
- 1mo ago First seen · 76 lines · 944 tokens per session scan A 90148781d847
PaperSpine CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository WUBING2023/PaperSpine (6,065 stars, last pushed 11d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 944 tokens to every session, about $0.0038 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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