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AGENTS.md

academic-writing-toolkit AGENTS.md is an instructions file for Codex, OpenCode from yha9806/academic-writing-toolkit. It costs 387 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A collection of skills for planning, reading, and writing an academic thesis or other long research document.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps manage literature, complete reading notes, draft chapters, check sources, and export the finished writing.
Why use it?
It organizes chapters, research papers, reading notes, word targets, and reading limits so the writing process stays structured.

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Written for Codex and OpenCode: the file is AGENTS.md. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md.

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What it actually says

Academic Writing Project

This file provides instructions for AI coding agents working in this repository.

Skill Discovery

Skills are located in .agents/skills/. Each .md file in that directory defines a slash-command skill for academic writing workflows (reading, note-taking, chapter drafting, verification, etc.).

Project Overview

This project uses the academic-writing-toolkit skills for structured research and thesis writing.

Directories

  • Chapters: chapters/
  • Literature PDFs: literature/
  • Reading notes: literature/reading_notes/
  • Export output: final_output/

Targets

  • Total word count target: 80,000
  • Per-chapter targets: edit the table below
Chapter Title Target Words
Ch1 Introduction 5,000
Ch2 Background 10,000
Ch3 Framework 12,000
Ch4 Methodology 8,000
Ch5 Results 15,000
Ch6 Discussion 12,000
Ch7 Practice 8,000
Ch8 Conclusion 5,000

Reading Constraints

  • Max pages per read invocation: 15
  • Max pages per conversation: 90
  • Always complete reading notes before modifying chapters

Writing Principles

  • Read first, write later — finish reading notes before editing chapters
  • Each source must have an independent notes file in literature/reading_notes/
  • Use British English for thesis text
  • Notes files follow the standardised format (see literature/reading_notes/_template_NOTES.md)

Citation

  • Citation style: harvard
Changes

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  1. 9d ago First seen · 47 lines · 387 tokens per session scan A 47d89dfbc409

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academic-writing-toolkit AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository yha9806/academic-writing-toolkit (36 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 387 tokens to every session, about $0.0019 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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