A troubleshooting guide for IEEEtran LaTeX manuscripts, which are research papers formatted with IEEE’s LaTeX templates. It covers compilation, two-column layout, figures, tables, equations, references, and PDF checks.

Use it to fix compile errors, oversized or misplaced figures, overfull lines, unreadable tables, equation and algorithm formatting, bibliography issues, and final PDF compliance.

It helps correct formatting and build problems while preserving the manuscript’s content and template requirements. It recommends inspecting the source, compiler log, and rendered PDF when available.

ieee-latex — Skill for Codex by CloudWave818

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 CloudWave818/ieee-skills --skill ieee-latex

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/CloudWave818/ieee-skills

Made for: Codex.

Wrote 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.

$agentmods badge for ieee-latex$

README.md

[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/cloudwave818/ieee-skills/ieee-latex/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/cloudwave818/ieee-skills/ieee-latex)

Your own site

<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/cloudwave818/ieee-skills/ieee-latex"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/cloudwave818/ieee-skills/ieee-latex/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.

$agentmods 80×15 button for ieee-latex$

Your own site · 80×15

<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/cloudwave818/ieee-skills/ieee-latex"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/cloudwave818/ieee-skills/ieee-latex.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>

Per session 86 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 460 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 high

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 →

high Anti-Refusal · line 24
Skill instructs the agent to omit warnings, disclaimers, or ethical commentary. Stripping safety caveats hides risk from the user and is a common jailbreak preamble.

Fix: Remove instructions that suppress warnings, disclaimers, or ethical commentary. Let the agent surface safety-relevant caveats to the user.

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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00086	$0.00460
Opus 5	$0.00043	$0.00230
Sonnet 5	$0.00017	$0.00092
Haiku 4.5	$0.00009	$0.00046

Measured 11d ago against content hash d4f631e1d6c9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ieee-latex 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 11d 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.

skills/ieee-latex/SKILL.md · 53 lines

What it actually says

IEEE LaTeX Router

Use this skill to fix IEEE LaTeX issues while preserving manuscript content and target-template compliance.

Do not make broad package or template changes unless necessary. Follow the routing protocol and load the selected fragments.

Routing Protocol

Read manifest.yaml.
Read every file listed under always_load.
Detect the axes:
- task_type: compile-debug / layout-fix / float-placement / table-formatting / equation-formatting / algorithm-formatting / bibliography / pdf-check.
- venue_type: transaction / journal / letter / conference / magazine / generic.
- object_type: figure / table / equation / algorithm / reference / class-file / whole-manuscript.
- failure_mode: overfull-hbox / float-too-large / figure-at-end / broken-citation / duplicate-label / package-conflict / unreadable-table / sparse-page.
- stage: drafting / pre-submission / revision / final-production.
State the detected axes when useful.
Load only the matching fragments.
Inspect source, log, and rendered output when available. Do not judge final layout from .tex alone when a PDF can be rendered or inspected.
Apply the smallest IEEE-compatible fix.

Output Contract

Diagnosis:
- Cause:
- Affected object:

Fix:
[minimal LaTeX change or instructions]

Why this works:
[short explanation]

Follow-up checks:
- [compile/render/check PDF]

For direct code edits, preserve author content and change only the necessary LaTeX structure.

Red Lines

Do not switch away from the target IEEE template for convenience.

Do not break IEEE bibliography style for cosmetic citation output.

Do not use screenshots for plots when vector or high-resolution exports are possible.

Files

What ships with it

38 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.

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.

11d ago First seen · 53 lines · 86 tokens per session scan A d4f631e1d6c9

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ieee-latex is a skill published in the GitHub repository CloudWave818/ieee-skills (278 stars, last pushed 29d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 86 tokens to every session and 460 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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