template-manuscript-creation

template-manuscript-creation is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from docxology/template. It costs 66 tokens per session (857 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A project scaffolding skill for starting a research manuscript from a brief. It creates the paper structure and supporting folders, configuration, references, scripts, and tests.

In plain words
What is it for?
Starting a new research paper, creating a matching projects/ layout, and organizing manuscript sections, code, references, and tests.
Why use it?
It removes the repetitive setup work involved in creating a new research project that follows an existing template.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 66 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 857 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 $0.00066 $0.00857
Opus 5 $0.00033 $0.00428
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00171
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00086

Measured 5d ago against content hash dc6a1059e16a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

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 5d 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/manuscript-creation/SKILL.md · 75 lines

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

Workflow

  1. Copy exemplar shape — match section numbering (01_* vs 00_*), not generic skeleton if exemplar differs.

  2. Manuscript filesconfig.yaml, preamble.md, references.bib, ordered *.md sections, glossary/references as exemplar does.

  3. Cross-refs — Pandoc: @fig:, @eq:, @sec:, [@key] per docs/guides/manuscript-semantics.md. Registry: refs/labels.yaml + [[FIG:]] tokens.

  4. src/ — typed public APIs, get_logger, fixed seeds, custom exceptions where needed.

  5. scripts/ — thin orchestrators only; MPLBACKEND=Agg; print output paths.

  6. tests/ — no mocks; ≥90% on projects/<name>/src.

  7. Docs — project AGENTS.md + README.md; link active_projects doc, do not hard-code roster.

  8. One-shot alternative — for LLM scaffold of entire tree, see docs/guides/new-project-one-shot-prompt.md.

Read the full file on GitHub · 75 lines

Files

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.

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. 5d ago First seen · 75 lines · 66 tokens per session scan A dc6a1059e16a

Subscribe to this mod's changes

template-manuscript-creation is a skill published in the GitHub repository docxology/template (19 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. 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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