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 skills add AlterLab-IEU/AlterLab-Academic-Skills --skill alterlab-paper-writergit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AlterLab-IEU/AlterLab-Academic-SkillsWrote 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/skills/alterlab-ieu/alterlab-academic-skills/alterlab-paper-writer)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/alterlab-ieu/alterlab-academic-skills/alterlab-paper-writer"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/alterlab-ieu/alterlab-academic-skills/alterlab-paper-writer/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.
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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 | $0.00271 | $0.06573 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00108 | $0.02629 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00054 | $0.01315 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00027 | $0.00657 |
Grade A, and why
alterlab-paper-writer 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 — 510 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Academic Paper — Academic Paper Writing Agent Team
A general-purpose academic paper writing tool — 12-agent pipeline covering all disciplines, with higher education domain as the default reference. v2.4 hardens LaTeX output formatting: mandatory apa7 document class for APA 7.0, text justification override for man mode, table column width formula with \tabcolsep deduction, bilingual abstract centering, standardized font stack (Times New Roman + Source Han Serif TC VF + Courier New), and PDF compilation via tectonic.
Quick Start
Minimal command:
Write a paper on the impact of AI on higher education quality assurance
Write a paper on the impact of declining birth rates on private university management strategies
Execution flow:
- Configuration interview — paper type, discipline, citation format, output format
- Literature search — systematic search strategy, source screening
- Architecture design — paper structure, outline, word count allocation
- Argumentation construction — claim-evidence chains, logical flow
- Full-text drafting — section-by-section draft, register adjustment
- Citation compliance + bilingual abstract (parallel)
- Peer review — five-dimension scoring, revision suggestions
- Output formatting — LaTeX/DOCX/PDF/Markdown
When to Use This Skill
Trigger Keywords
English: write paper, academic paper, paper outline, write abstract, revise paper, literature review paper, check citations, convert to LaTeX, convert format, format paper, conference paper, journal article, thesis chapter, research paper, guide my paper, help me plan my paper, step by step paper, draft manuscript, write methodology, write discussion, parse reviews, revision roadmap, help me with my revision, I got reviewer comments, convert citations
Türkçe: makale yaz, akademik makale, makale taslağı, özet yaz, makaleyi revize et, literatür taraması makalesi, atıfları kontrol et, LaTeX'e dönüştür, bildiri, dergi makalesi, tez bölümü, hakem yorumları, revizyon planı, makalemi planlamama yardım et
What ships with it
44 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.
- agents/abstract_bilingual_agent.md 8.0 KB
- agents/argument_builder_agent.md 10 KB
- agents/citation_compliance_agent.md 19 KB
- agents/draft_writer_agent.md 19 KB
- agents/formatter_agent.md 30 KB
- agents/intake_agent.md 9.3 KB
- agents/literature_strategist_agent.md 17 KB
- agents/peer_reviewer_agent.md 21 KB
- agents/revision_coach_agent.md 13 KB
- agents/socratic_mentor_agent.md 21 KB
- agents/structure_architect_agent.md 15 KB
- agents/visualization_agent.md 15 KB
- evals/evals.json 8.3 KB
- examples/chinese_paper_example.md 26 KB
- examples/imrad_hei_example.md 23 KB
- examples/literature_review_example.md 31 KB
- examples/plan_mode_guided_writing.md 34 KB
- examples/revision_mode_example.md 20 KB
- examples/revision_recovery_example.md 40 KB
- references/abstract_writing_guide.md 7.8 KB
- references/academic_writing_style.md 7.5 KB
- references/apa7_chinese_citation_guide.md 12 KB
- references/apa7_extended_guide.md 6.6 KB
- references/citation_format_switcher.md 8.5 KB
- references/credit_authorship_guide.md 14 KB
- references/failure_paths.md 14 KB
- references/funding_statement_guide.md 12 KB
- references/hei_domain_glossary.md 6.8 KB
- references/journal_submission_guide.md 8.8 KB
- references/latex_template_reference.md 9.6 KB
- references/mode_selection_guide.md 11 KB
- references/paper_structure_patterns.md 8.2 KB
- references/statistical_visualization_standards.md 24 KB
- templates/bilingual_abstract_template.md 2.9 KB
- templates/case_study_template.md 2.8 KB
- templates/conference_paper_template.md 2.3 KB
- templates/credit_statement_template.md 4.4 KB
- templates/funding_statement_template.md 8.9 KB
- templates/imrad_template.md 4.4 KB
- templates/latex_article_template.tex 4.7 KB
- templates/literature_review_template.md 2.8 KB
- templates/policy_brief_template.md 3.6 KB
- templates/revision_tracking_template.md 5.1 KB
- templates/theoretical_paper_template.md 2.8 KB
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 Changed · +9 lines · -5 tokens per session e3b187e4327e
- 1mo ago First seen · 501 lines · 276 tokens per session scan A 57e1b49ba164
alterlab-paper-writer is a skill published in the GitHub repository AlterLab-IEU/AlterLab-Academic-Skills (78 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 271 tokens to every session and 6,573 once invoked, about $0.0011 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 2026-09-03.
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