Getting it into your agent
It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/docxology/templatenpx agentmods add skills/docxology/template/manuscript-creationWrote 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/docxology/template/manuscript-creation)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/docxology/template/manuscript-creation"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/docxology/template/manuscript-creation/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.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/docxology/template/manuscript-creation"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/docxology/template/manuscript-creation.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- NVIDIA SkillSpector pass
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 | $0.00066 | $0.00857 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00026 | $0.00343 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00013 | $0.00171 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00007 | $0.00086 |
Grade A, and why
template-manuscript-creation 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 — 75 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Manuscript creation
Natural invoke
- "Create a new optimization research project and manuscript from this brief"
- "Scaffold projects/my_topic/ like template_code_project"
- "I have a research idea — set up manuscript + src + tests"
Inputs to confirm
- Research topic — objectives, methods, expected contributions (user provides).
- Exemplar — default
projects/templates/template_code_project/; Active Inference multi-track →template_active_inference; prose →template_prose_project; AutoResearch/readiness loop →template_autoresearch_project; meta-template / infrastructure introspection →template_template; search → publictemplate_search_project. Roster:docs/_generated/active_projects.mdandprojects/AGENTS.md. - Cross-ref style — Pandoc-crossref vs registry tokens (pick one; see manuscript-cross-references).
Workflow
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Copy exemplar shape — match section numbering (
01_*vs00_*), not generic skeleton if exemplar differs. -
Manuscript files —
config.yaml,preamble.md,references.bib, ordered*.mdsections, glossary/references as exemplar does. -
Cross-refs — Pandoc:
@fig:,@eq:,@sec:,[@key]perdocs/guides/manuscript-semantics.md. Registry:refs/labels.yaml+[[FIG:]]tokens. -
src/— typed public APIs,get_logger, fixed seeds, custom exceptions where needed. -
scripts/— thin orchestrators only;MPLBACKEND=Agg; print output paths. -
tests/— no mocks; ≥90% onprojects/<name>/src. -
Docs — project AGENTS.md + README.md; link active_projects doc, do not hard-code roster.
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One-shot alternative — for LLM scaffold of entire tree, see
docs/guides/new-project-one-shot-prompt.md.
What ships with it
5 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.
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 First seen · 75 lines · 66 tokens per session scan A dc6a1059e16a
template-manuscript-creation is a skill published in the GitHub repository docxology/template (20 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 66 tokens to every session and 857 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-30.
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