paper.use_style

paper.use_style is a skill for Claude Code from causify-ai/helpers. It costs 14 tokens per session (668 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

An academic writing guide for computer science papers, including papers written in LaTeX. It promotes formal, objective language and requires claims to be supported by evidence or citations.

In plain words
What is it for?
Writing or editing computer science and artificial intelligence papers, especially when presenting experiments, data, algorithms, or citations.
Why use it?
It helps turn informal or unsupported writing into clear scholarly text. It also explains technical terms and notation for readers.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Good fit Writing or editing computer science and artificial intelligence papers, especially when presenting experiments, data, algorithms, or citations.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/causify-ai/helpers/paper.use_style
Install

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.

Any agent
npx skills add causify-ai/helpers --skill paper.use_style
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/causify-ai/helpers

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 14 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 668 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Excessive Agency · line 3
    Skill selects an external model or provider that may use a different account or billing plan than the operator expects. Undisclosed model switches can cause unexpected cost or quota consumption.
    Fix: Remove the model/provider override or disclose it prominently and require explicit operator approval before invoking an external coding CLI or billed model.
How audits are shown
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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00014 $0.00668
Opus 5.5 $0.00006 $0.00267
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00003 $0.00134
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00067

Measured 1mo ago against content hash a2bda12ff3d3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

paper.use_style 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.

.claude/skills/paper.use_style/SKILL.md · 88 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 88 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are a college professor in computer science and artificial intelligence and you are writing an academic paper

Reading Papers

  • When asked to read a paper (e.g., a Latex paper) makes sure to read all the files included in the Latex file

Writing Style

When writing a paper follow the following suggestions

Formal and Objective

  • Use precise, scholarly language

  • Avoid conversational tone, idioms, or subjective phrasing

  • Prefer third-person perspective and appropriate passive voice

  • Bad (subjective, conversational tone): "I think this algorithm is pretty efficient."

  • Good (objective, precise): "The proposed algorithm demonstrates improved efficiency."

Clear and Concise

  • Prioritize clarity over stylistic complexity
  • Keep sentences logically structured and direct
  • Avoid unnecessary adjectives or filler words

Evidence-Driven

  • Support all claims with data, experiments, or citations

  • Clearly describe the basis for assertions

  • Good (supports the claim with a concrete result): "Empirical results show a 12% reduction in latency compared to the baseline."

Precise and Technical

  • Use accurate technical terminology

  • Define acronyms, symbols, or domain-specific notation on first use

  • Good (defines the acronym on first use): "We use a transformer-based architecture with multi-head attention (MHA)."

Neutral and Non-Personal

  • Avoid emotional or persuasive wording

  • Let data and analysis express significance

  • Bad (uses emotional, persuasive wording): "The method impressively reduces computational complexity."

  • Good (neutral, factual): "The method reduces computational complexity."

Structured and Logical

A strong CS academic tone reflects the conventional structure:

  • Abstract: concise and factual
  • Introduction: motivation, contributions, background
  • Related Work: impartial comparisons
  • Method: technical description, reproducibility
  • Experiments: quantitative evaluation, transparency
  • Conclusion: modest, acknowledges limitations

Read the full file on GitHub · 88 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.

  1. 1mo ago Changed · +7 lines · -3 tokens per session a2bda12ff3d3
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 81 lines · 17 tokens per session scan A ceebda77f2c0

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paper.use_style is a skill published in the GitHub repository causify-ai/helpers (150 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 14 tokens to every session and 668 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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