academic-paper-drafting

academic-paper-drafting is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from fabioc-aloha/Alex_Skill_Mall. It costs 34 tokens per session (4,599 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guided workflow for writing academic papers for venues such as CHI, HBR, and research journals, from an initial draft through revision and submission.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps turn research into papers, shape arguments, organise sections, use focused writing sprints, and respond to reviewer feedback.
Why use it?
It replaces an unstructured blank-page process with venue-specific templates, writing guidance, and revision strategies. CHI is a major human-computer interaction conference, while HBR is a business publication.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit It helps turn research into papers, shape arguments, organise sections, use focused writing sprints, and respond to reviewer feedback.

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Install

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Any agent
npx skills add fabioc-aloha/Alex_Skill_Mall --skill academic-paper-drafting
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/fabioc-aloha/Alex_Skill_Mall

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 34 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,599 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.
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 $0.00034 $0.04599
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.02299
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00920
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00460

Measured 11d ago against content hash d080cab4ffb0, 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-paper-drafting 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-paper-drafting/skills/academic-paper-drafting/SKILL.md · 678 lines

How it starts

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Academic Paper Drafting Skill

Turn research into published scholarship. From blank page to accepted manuscript.

This skill provides structured workflows for drafting academic papers, with venue-specific guidance for HCI conferences (CHI), business publications (HBR), and academic journals (Cognitive Systems Research, Minds & Machines).

Drafting Philosophy

The Academic Writing Paradox

Challenge Reality Strategy
"I need to read more first" Reading is procrastination Write to discover what you don't know
"I need the perfect first sentence" First drafts are meant to be bad Start with the section you know best
"I'll write when I have time" Time expands to fill available space Write in focused sprints
"It needs to be original" Synthesis is originality Combine existing ideas in new ways

The Write-to-Think Method

Messy Draft → Clarity → Structure → Polish → Submit
     ↑                                    ↓
     └────── Reviewer Feedback ───────────┘

Key insight: Writing IS thinking. You don't figure out your argument first and then write it — you figure it out BY writing it.


Venue Quick Reference

User's Target Pipeline

Venue Type Word Limit Review Time Focus
ACM CHI Conference 7,500 (full) / 3,000 (LBW) 3-4 months HCI, interaction design
Harvard Business Review Magazine 2,500-3,000 2-4 weeks Business practice, executives
Cognitive Systems Research Journal 8,000-12,000 3-6 months Cognitive science, AI systems
Minds & Machines Journal 8,000-12,000 3-6 months Philosophy of AI, consciousness

Venue Selection Matrix

Your Research Has... Best Venue
User study with metrics CHI
Business implications, case study HBR
Cognitive architecture, theory Cognitive Systems Research
Philosophical argument about AI Minds & Machines
Quick preliminary findings CHI LBW or Workshop

Read the full file on GitHub · 678 lines

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  1. 11d ago First seen · 678 lines · 34 tokens per session scan A d080cab4ffb0

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academic-paper-drafting is a skill published in the GitHub repository fabioc-aloha/Alex_Skill_Mall (4 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 34 tokens to every session and 4,599 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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