template-academic-paper

template-academic-paper is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from docxology/template. It costs 52 tokens per session (922 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guided workflow for planning, writing, revising, formatting, and checking academic papers inside a research project template.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to outline a paper, draft sections, respond to reviewer comments, check citations, prepare final formatting, or write an AI-use disclosure.
Why use it?
It keeps the manuscript tied to the project's evidence, figures, tables, and references, and marks missing evidence instead of inventing it.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/docxology/template/academic-paper
Any agent
npx skills add docxology/template --skill academic-paper
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/docxology/template

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 52 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 922 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00052 $0.00922
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.00461
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00184
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00092

Measured 6d ago against content hash e3b28a49a3d4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

template-academic-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 6d 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.

docs/prompts/academic-paper/SKILL.md · 83 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 83 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Academic paper

Template-native paper workflow. It uses project manuscript sources, generated variables, validation gates, and evidence registries rather than a copied external academic agent prompt.

Natural invoke

  • "Help me plan this paper"
  • "Write the outline and methods section from these artifacts"
  • "Revise the manuscript after reviewer comments"
  • "Check citations and convert the final paper format"
  • "Write an AI-use disclosure tied to the repo evidence"

Inputs to confirm

  • Project - resolve through docs/_generated/active_projects.md.
  • Mode - plan, outline, full, revision, format, citation-check, prose-quality, or disclosure.
  • Manuscript style - Pandoc-crossref or registry tokens; do not mix styles.
  • Evidence sources - generated variables, claim ledger, figures, tables, references, validation reports.

Workflow

  1. Plan first when uncertain - capture target venue, paper type, contribution, section map, and unresolved material gaps.
  2. Draft from artifacts - write against projects/<project>/manuscript/, generated variables, figure captions, and citekeys; use [MATERIAL GAP] instead of fabricating missing evidence.
  3. Preserve injected values - prefer [[VAR:...]], registry-backed labels, citekeys, and project-defined cross-reference tokens over hard-coded numbers.
  4. Validate continuously - run prerender, markdown, citation, PDF, and integrity checks appropriate to the mode.
  5. Self-edit the prose - run the AI-writing-fingerprint scan (prose-quality) and tighten any flagged stock phrasing, em-dash over-use, or uniform sentence length. Treat it as advisory (revise, do not blindly delete); it is a deterministic clean-room distillation of the ARS writing-quality check, not a model judgment.
  6. Verify references exist - in citation-check/format/finalize, run the reference-existence gate so no cited DOI/arXiv id is fabricated and no metadata is mismatched.
  7. Handoff for review - use academic-paper-reviewer for read-only critique; use claim verification before finalization.

Read the full file on GitHub · 83 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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.

  1. 6d ago First seen · 83 lines · 52 tokens per session scan A e3b28a49a3d4

Subscribe to this mod's changes

template-academic-paper is a skill published in the GitHub repository docxology/template (19 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 52 tokens to every session and 922 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 2026-08-30.

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