Getting it into your agent
This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.
/plugin marketplace add DaRL-GenAI/instructional_agents-skills/plugin install instructional-agentsWrote 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.
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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 | $0.00060 | $0.00490 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00030 | $0.00245 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00012 | $0.00098 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00006 | $0.00049 |
Grade A, and why
latex-compile scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 12d ago.
A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.
Nothing flagged
None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.
What it actually says
LaTeX Batch Compile
Recursively finds .tex files under a directory and compiles each to .pdf
using pdflatex (or xelatex), with a per-file cache directory so that
auxiliary files don't pollute the source tree.
When to invoke this skill
- User asks to "compile all
.texin folder X" - User has modified LaTeX files and wants fresh PDFs
- Post-processing after
course-generate(it emits.tex, not.pdf)
Prerequisites
A LaTeX distribution on PATH. Check:
which pdflatex || which xelatex
If missing, point the user to TeX Live or MacTeX.
Usage
python3 "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/latex-compile/scripts/compile.py" \
<directory> [--also-pptx]
Arguments
| Arg | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|
<directory> |
yes | Root directory to scan recursively |
--also-pptx |
no | Also convert each .tex to .pptx after PDF compilation |
Engine
The underlying compiler uses pdflatex (hardcoded in src.compile.LaTeXCompiler).
For xelatex / lualatex support, open an issue upstream.
Example
python3 "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/latex-compile/scripts/compile.py" \
exp/reinforcement_learning --also-pptx
Output
*.pdfnext to each*.tex- Aux files (
.aux,.log,.toc, …) stored in<dir>/.cache/<stem>/
Citation
This skill wraps src.compile from Instructional Agents (arXiv:2508.19611).
What ships with it
1 file 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.
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.
- 12d ago First seen · 62 lines · 60 tokens per session scan A 5d1bb7be25bc
latex-compile is a skill published in the GitHub repository DaRL-GenAI/instructional_agents-skills (1 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 60 tokens to every session and 490 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-31.
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