academic-editorial-judgment

academic-editorial-judgment is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from fabioc-aloha/Alex_Skill_Mall. It costs 24 tokens per session (474 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

Editorial guidance for making context-sensitive decisions in APA 7, Chicago, and MLA academic writing styles. It focuses on meaning and author intent rather than applying rules mechanically.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to edit academic papers, choose appropriate verb tenses and voice, apply citation-style judgment, and resolve unclear style decisions.
Why use it?
It helps prevent incorrect grammar or style changes, such as changing verb tense when the original tense is appropriate. It also helps preserve the writer’s voice and regional spelling.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to edit academic papers, choose appropriate verb tenses and voice, apply citation-style judgment, and resolve unclear style decisions.

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When invoked 474 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.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
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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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00024 $0.00474
Opus 5 $0.00012 $0.00237
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00095
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00047

Measured 11d ago against content hash 42fce1f2e9e7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

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Grade A, and why

academic-editorial-judgment 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.

plugins/academic-research/academic-editorial-judgment/skills/academic-editorial-judgment/SKILL.md · 79 lines

What it actually says

Academic Editorial Judgment

The Problem

Complex editorial style rules require judgment, not pattern-matching:

Rule: "Use past tense for completed research, present for ongoing implications"

Bad (mechanical): Find all verbs, check tense
Good (judgment): Does this describe what was done (past) or what it means (present)?

APA7, Chicago, MLA — all have context-dependent rules.

The Solution

Apply critical thinking to editorial decisions:

1. Identify the Rule's Intent

Rule Surface Form Actual Intent
Past tense for methods "We analyzed..." Completed actions
Present for conclusions "Results show..." Ongoing validity
Active voice Subject-verb-object Clarity, attribution

2. Check Context Before Applying

❌ Mechanical: "Change all 'is' to 'was'"
✅ Judgment: "Is this describing what IS true, or what WAS done?"

Example:
- "The sample was collected..." ✅ Past (completed action)
- "The effect is significant..." ✅ Present (ongoing validity)
- "Figure 1 shows..." ✅ Present (the figure currently shows)

3. Preserve Author Voice

Don't "fix" intentional style choices:

  • Regional spellings (behaviour/behavior)
  • Disciplinary conventions
  • Established terminology

Decision Tree

1. Is this a hard rule (spelling, citation format)?
   → Apply mechanically

2. Is this a judgment call (tense, voice, word choice)?
   → Check context
   → Consider author intent
   → Apply if clearly wrong, query if ambiguous

3. Am I confident this improves the text?
   → No: Leave a suggestion, don't change
   → Yes: Change with explanation

When to Apply

  • Editing academic manuscripts
  • Applying style guides (APA, MLA, Chicago)
  • Any editorial work with context-dependent rules

Tags

academic editing style-guides judgment

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. 11d ago First seen · 79 lines · 24 tokens per session scan A 42fce1f2e9e7

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academic-editorial-judgment is a skill published in the GitHub repository fabioc-aloha/Alex_Skill_Mall (4 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 24 tokens to every session and 474 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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