scientific-writing

scientific-writing is a skill for Claude Code from fmschulz/omics-skills. It costs 42 tokens per session (2,368 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A scientific-writing assistant for drafting, revising, and reviewing research manuscripts, rebuttals, response letters, and individual sentences while preserving the underlying scientific claims.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to write or revise manuscript sections, prepare responses to reviewers, or check existing scientific prose sentence by sentence.
Why use it?
It helps improve clarity, structure, terminology, voice, and numerical consistency while keeping the science grounded in authoritative source material.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions subagents; mentions Claude Code; mentions Codex.

Part of the omics-skills plugin — 34 skills, 4 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to write or revise manuscript sections, prepare responses to reviewers, or check existing scientific prose sentence by sentence.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/fmschulz/omics-skills/scientific-writing
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.

Any agent
npx skills add fmschulz/omics-skills --skill scientific-writing
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/fmschulz/omics-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install omics-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 34 skills, 4 agents.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 42 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,368 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 $0.00042 $0.02368
Opus 5 $0.00021 $0.01184
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00474
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00237

Measured 3d ago against content hash e8940fc08f65, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

scientific-writing 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 3d 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.

skills/scientific-writing/SKILL.md · 193 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 193 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Scientific Writing

Use this as the single scientific-writing skill for both Codex and Claude Code. It covers two related modes of work:

  • Drafting and revision — produce a manuscript or rebuttal from authoritative artifacts and iterate it through review-revise loops.
  • Sentence-level writing review — audit existing prose for clarity, voice, sentence architecture, terminology consistency, and numerical integrity, without changing the underlying science.

The two modes share the same role set and the same hard rules. Pick the entry point that matches the request; the workflow then routes accordingly.

Routing Boundary

  • Use this skill when the requested output is manuscript prose or a prose- quality review that preserves the underlying scientific claims.
  • Use /bio-logic when the main question is whether a method, design, causal claim, or interpretation is scientifically justified.
  • Use /manuscript-review-council for journal-style peer review or a multi-reviewer critique. Route the resulting evidence-backed revisions back here.
  • Generic requests containing only “write” do not establish scientific-writing intent and should remain unmatched.

State Assumptions First

Before drafting or reviewing, state:

  • manuscript mode: new draft, revision, rebuttal, review response, section rewrite, or writing review
  • review mode when this is a writing review: full-review, section-review, targeted, or interactive (see below)
  • target venue or formatting target when known
  • authoritative artifacts available
  • missing artifacts that block specific claims

If a required input is missing, name the gap and keep the prose conservative.

Review Modes

When the request is a writing review of existing prose, choose one mode:

Mode Trigger Behavior
full-review "review my manuscript", "writing review" Run all five prose-quality audits on the whole document and emit a structured report. Default when ambiguous.
section-review "review the Introduction", "check the Discussion" Run all five audits on a single section.
targeted "fix passive voice", "strip the clutter" Run only the requested audit pass(es).
interactive "walk me through improving this" Go paragraph by paragraph: show original, show revision, explain changes, wait for confirmation.

Read the full file on GitHub · 193 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. 3d ago Changed · +4 tokens per session e8940fc08f65
  2. 10d ago First seen · 193 lines · 38 tokens per session scan A 46f3158c0c07

Subscribe to this mod's changes

scientific-writing is a skill published in the GitHub repository fmschulz/omics-skills (7 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 42 tokens to every session and 2,368 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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