Getting it into your agent
One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.
npx agentmods add rules/yha9806/academic-writing-toolkit/academic-writinggit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/yha9806/academic-writing-toolkitWhat 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 | $0.00354 | $0.00354 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00177 | $0.00177 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00071 | $0.00071 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00035 | $0.00035 |
Grade A, and why
academic-writing 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 yesterday.
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
Notes Format
Reading notes use a standardised template (literature/reading_notes/_template_NOTES.md) with required fields:
- Status:
reading|completed|integrated - Relevance: chapter and section reference (e.g. "Ch3 S3.2 — supports argument about X")
- Thesis Connections table: maps note points to chapters, sections, and connection types (supports / challenges / extends)
- Key Terms table: term, translation (if applicable), definition in context
- Direct quotes must include page numbers:
> "quote" (p.N)
Chapter Structure
- Chapters live in
chapters/, namedch{N}_{slug}.md - Sections numbered hierarchically:
## N.1,### N.1.1 - Each chapter ends with a
## Referencessection (Harvard style) - Template available at
chapters/_template.md
Writing Principles
- Read first, write later — complete reading notes for all sources before editing chapter text
- British English throughout thesis text (favour, analyse, behaviour, programme)
- One notes file per source — every PDF/text gets its own
_NOTES.mdinliterature/reading_notes/ - Max 15 pages per read invocation; max 90 pages per conversation
Cursor Note
For full skill functionality (/read, /note, /verify, etc.), use Claude Code, Codex CLI, or Gemini CLI. Cursor rules provide baseline writing conventions only.
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.
- yesterday First seen · 32 lines · 354 tokens per session scan A 2a744af5fa3b
academic-writing is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository yha9806/academic-writing-toolkit (30 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 354 tokens to every session, about $0.0018 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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