latex-paper-conversion

latex-paper-conversion is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from fabioc-aloha/Alex_Skill_Mall. It costs 62 tokens per session (1,007 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for changing an academic paper written in LaTeX from one publisher’s format to another.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to convert a LaTeX paper into a new journal template, including extracting content, inserting it into the template, and fixing common errors.
Why use it?
It handles repeated work such as adapting document structure, margins, citation styles, and compilation problems.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to convert a LaTeX paper into a new journal template, including extracting content, inserting it into the template, and fixing common errors.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/fabioc-aloha/alex_skill_mall/latex-paper-conversion
Install

Getting it into your agent

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

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Per session 62 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,007 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 $0.00062 $0.01007
Opus 5 $0.00031 $0.00504
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00201
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00101

Measured 11d ago against content hash 8c1a8a17d7d3, 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

latex-paper-conversion 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/latex-paper-conversion/skills/latex-paper-conversion/SKILL.md · 72 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 72 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

LaTeX Paper Conversion

Overview

This skill automates the tedious and recurring process of converting an academic paper written in LaTeX from one publisher's template to another. Different journals (e.g., Springer, MDPI, IEEE) have vastly different structural requirements, document classes, margin settings, and bibliography styles. This skill streamlines these conversions by executing a structured multi-stage workflow, extracting content, mapping it to a new template, and resolving common compilation errors.

When to Use This Skill

  • Use when the user requests to port an existing LaTeX paper to a new journal's format.
  • Use when the user provides an existing .tex file and a new template directory.
  • Use when the user mentions converting from format A (e.g., IPOL/Neural Processing) to format B (e.g., MDPI).

How It Works

Step 1: Pre-requisites & Assessment

Identify the Source LaTeX file and asking the user for the Target Template Directory. Understand the core layout mapping (single-column vs. double-column, bibliography style).

Step 2: Extraction & Injection Script Generation

Create a Python script (e.g., convert_format.py) to parse the source LaTeX file. Use Regular Expressions to extract core text blocks. Merge the new template's preamble, the extracted body, and the backmatter. Write this to a new file in an output directory.

Step 3: Systematic Fixing

Perform generic fixes on the extracted body text before writing the final file, or in subsequent calls:

  • Convert math environment cases (e.g., \begin{theorem} to \begin{Theorem}).
  • Adjust aggressive float placements (e.g., [!t] or [h!]) to template-supported options. Avoid forcing [H] unless the float package is explicitly loaded.
  • Ensure \includegraphics paths are relative to the new .tex file location.
  • Convert \begin{tabular} to \begin{tabularx}{\textwidth} or use \resizebox if moving to a double-column layout.

Step 4: Compilation & Debugging

Run a build cycle (pdflatex -> bibtex -> pdflatex). Check the .log file using grep or rg to systematically fix any packages conflicts, undefined commands, or compilation halts.

Read the full file on GitHub · 72 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

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  1. 11d ago First seen · 72 lines · 62 tokens per session scan A 8c1a8a17d7d3

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latex-paper-conversion is a skill published in the GitHub repository fabioc-aloha/Alex_Skill_Mall (4 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 62 tokens to every session and 1,007 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 2026-08-31.

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