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.
npx skills add flonat/flonat-research --skill latex-polishgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/flonat/flonat-researchWrote 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/flonat/flonat-research/latex-polish)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/flonat/flonat-research/latex-polish"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/flonat/flonat-research/latex-polish/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/flonat/flonat-research/latex-polish"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/flonat/flonat-research/latex-polish.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 | $0.00064 | $0.02316 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00032 | $0.01158 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00013 | $0.00463 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00006 | $0.00232 |
Grade A, and why
latex-polish 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 7d 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 — 188 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
LaTeX Polish — Source Lint + Vision-On-Rendered-PDF
Heavier-weight visual-quality review than
latex. Combines the Phase 4 source-pathology lint with vision-model inspection of selected rendered PDF pages. Designed to catch the failure class thatlatexPhase 4 source-grep misses: blank pages, clipped tables, illegible shrunken figures, weird title-page line spacing that the regex couldn't fingerprint, bad float placement, overlap.
When to Use
- Pre-submission visual check on a paper, proposal, thesis, or deck
- After major restructuring (new sections, table re-layouts, figure swaps) when you want eyes on the rendered output
- When
latexreports a clean build but something still "looks weird" - When preparing for a panel / supervisor read where presentation matters
When NOT to Use
| Need | Use instead |
|---|---|
| Compile-fix loop | latex |
| Citation audit | latex (Phase 5) or bib-validate |
| Prose / academic-argument review | proofread |
| Single-figure analysis | figure-feedback |
| Continuous integration | This skill renders + vision-inspects pages; too expensive to run on every save |
Inputs
.texpath — auto-discovered or user-provided. Prefer the user's argument.- PDF path — assumed at
<project>/<basename>.pdf(perlatexconvention). If absent or older than.tex, the skill aborts and suggestslatexfirst. --no-vision— skip the vision-rendering phases (Page rendering onward), run the source-pathology lint only.--pages auto|N,N,N— page selection override. Defaultauto.
Hard Rules
- Do not compile. This skill presupposes a clean PDF. If the PDF is missing or stale, abort and suggest
latexfirst. - Read-only with respect to source files. Exception: Pattern-1 (spacing-hack) opt-in fix, which is offered with a diff and only applied on explicit user yes.
- No deploy actions. This skill produces a report; it does not commit, push, or modify build infrastructure.
- Cap render cost. Max 8 pages rendered per invocation. If page selection would exceed 8, prioritise: title page, worst-overfull page, first table/figure page, then arbitrary sample.
- Cap vision-prompt cost. One Read per rendered page. No per-page back-and-forth.
What ships with it
2 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.
- 7d ago First seen · 188 lines · 64 tokens per session scan A cbe4aa147c0e
latex-polish is a skill published in the GitHub repository flonat/flonat-research (133 stars, last pushed 16d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 64 tokens to every session and 2,316 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 2026-09-03.
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