A project starter that creates a new academic paper from a LaTeX template, filling in the title, authors, and affiliations.

Use it when starting a paper or creating a fresh LaTeX draft, with optional topic-specific filler and example tables, figures, equations, and citations.

It removes the repetitive setup work and gives the paper a consistent starting structure. It also compiles a test PDF to catch basic problems early.

How Alexander-M-Dickerson/ai-asset-pricing configures Claude Code

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Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to Alexander-M-Dickerson/ai-asset-pricing. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file

curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Alexander-M-Dickerson/ai-asset-pricing/main/.claude/skills/setup-paper/SKILL.md

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Alexander-M-Dickerson/ai-asset-pricing

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 74 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 1,744 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.

Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.

Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.

Token cost

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	$0.00074	$0.01744
Opus 5.5	$0.00030	$0.00698
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00015	$0.00349
Haiku 4.5	$0.00007	$0.00174

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 70e01b9a1b3b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

setup-paper 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.

.claude/skills/setup-paper/SKILL.md · 167 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 167 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Setup Paper

Scaffold a new academic paper from the repo's LaTeX boilerplate template. The template includes 6 table exemplars, 1 figure, and 2 equation styles — all tagged [REMOVE] — so Claude has maximum context on formatting conventions.

Examples

/setup-paper "My Paper Title" — basic scaffold with placeholder authors
/setup-paper "My Paper Title" --authors "John Smith (MIT), Jane Doe (LSE)" — with authors
/setup-paper "My Paper Title" --authors "John Smith (MIT)" --topic "asset pricing anomalies" — with topic-aware filler

Workflow

Phase 1: Parse Arguments

Extract from $ARGUMENTS:

Title (required): first quoted string or all text before --
--authors (optional): comma-separated "Name (Affiliation)" pairs
--topic (optional): one-line description for smarter filler generation

If title is missing, use AskUserQuestion to prompt.

Phase 2: Resolve Target Directory

Determine where to write main.tex and references.bib:

If cwd is inside projects/<name>/ (any depth), target = projects/<name>/latex/
If cwd already ends with /latex/, target = cwd
Otherwise, ask the user which project to target or whether to write to cwd

Create the target directory if it does not exist.

Phase 3: Locate Boilerplate

Find the repo root by walking up from cwd looking for boilerplate/template_main.tex. The boilerplate lives at:

<repo_root>/boilerplate/template_main.tex
<repo_root>/boilerplate/template_references.bib

If the boilerplate files are not found, stop and tell the user.

Phase 4: Copy and Transform

Read boilerplate/template_main.tex
Read boilerplate/template_references.bib
Write both to the target directory as main.tex and references.bib
Update the \bibliography{} line: replace template_references with references

Phase 5: Replace Placeholders

Find and replace these [REMOVE] placeholders in main.tex:

Find	Replace with
`[REMOVE] Your Paper Title Here`	User's title
`[REMOVE] First Author\thanks{...}` block	Generated from `--authors` (see below)
`[REMOVE] Second Author\thanks{...}` block	Remove if only one author, or replace
`[REMOVE] We gratefully acknowledge...`	`[REMOVE] Acknowledgments go here.` (keep tag)
`[REMOVE] This paper studies...` (abstract)	Topic-aware filler if `--topic`, else keep
`[REMOVE] Keyword One; ...`	`[REMOVE] Keyword One; Keyword Two; Keyword Three.` (keep tag)
`[REMOVE] G12; C12.`	`[REMOVE] G12; C12.` (keep tag)

Read the full file on GitHub · 167 lines

Changes

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 · 167 lines · 74 tokens per session scan A 70e01b9a1b3b

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setup-paper is a skill published in the GitHub repository Alexander-M-Dickerson/ai-asset-pricing (59 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 74 tokens to every session and 1,744 once invoked, about $0.0003 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.

Scientific Writing and docs

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