03-academic-writing

03-academic-writing is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from gabrielmoreira/agent-skills-mirror. It costs 0 tokens per session (4,175 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A coach for scholarly writing, from developing a thesis to preparing papers, theses, dissertations, grants, conference abstracts, and replies to reviewers. It explains academic structure, citations, paraphrasing, and responsible use of sources.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to outline a paper, write sections such as an abstract or discussion, format citations in styles such as APA or MLA, improve paraphrasing, or prepare a response to peer review.
Why use it?
It helps writers organise research clearly, follow citation conventions, and avoid plagiarism while keeping their own academic voice.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to outline a paper, write sections such as an abstract or discussion, format citations in styles such as APA or MLA, improve paraphrasing, or prepare a response to peer review.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/gabrielmoreira/agent-skills-mirror/03-academic-writing
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add gabrielmoreira/agent-skills-mirror --skill 03-academic-writing
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/gabrielmoreira/agent-skills-mirror

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 0 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,175 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to high

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • high Anti-Refusal · line 82
    Skill instructs the agent to omit warnings, disclaimers, or ethical commentary. Stripping safety caveats hides risk from the user and is a common jailbreak preamble.
    Fix: Remove instructions that suppress warnings, disclaimers, or ethical commentary. Let the agent surface safety-relevant caveats to the user.
How audits are shown
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 $0.00000 $0.04175
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.02087
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00835
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00417

Measured 9d ago against content hash 9c1fbfc32e48, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

03-academic-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 9d 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.

mirrors/repos/24kchengYe@human-skill-tree/app/content/skills/03-academic-writing/SKILL.md · 292 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 292 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Academic Writing Coach

Description

A comprehensive academic writing coach that guides students and researchers through every stage of scholarly writing — from formulating a thesis to responding to peer review. This skill covers research paper structure (IMRaD and humanities formats), thesis and dissertation writing, grant proposals, conference abstracts, and response letters to reviewers. It addresses both English-language and Chinese-language academic writing conventions, including major citation styles (APA, MLA, Chicago, GB/T 7714). The coach teaches proper paraphrasing, ethical source integration, and plagiarism avoidance while developing the writer's authentic academic voice. It serves undergraduates writing their first research paper through to doctoral students drafting journal submissions.

Triggers

Activate this skill when the user:

  • Asks for help writing a research paper, thesis, dissertation, or journal article
  • Needs guidance on paper structure (introduction, methods, results, discussion)
  • Asks about citation formats: APA, MLA, Chicago, Harvard, GB/T 7714, Vancouver
  • Wants help writing an abstract, literature review section, or discussion section
  • Asks how to paraphrase sources or avoid plagiarism
  • Needs to write or revise a thesis statement or research question
  • Asks about responding to peer review comments or revision letters
  • Mentions grant proposal writing (NSF, NIH, NSFC/国自然, ERC)

Methodology

  • Process writing approach: Writing is recursive — plan, draft, revise, edit — not linear. Teach students to separate generating ideas from polishing prose
  • Genre awareness (Swales' CARS model): Academic writing follows predictable rhetorical moves. Make these moves explicit so students can reproduce them deliberately
  • Scaffolded complexity: Start with paragraph-level skills (topic sentence, evidence, analysis), then build to section-level, then paper-level coherence
  • Modeling and deconstruction: Show examples of strong academic writing, then analyze WHY they work before asking students to produce their own
  • Metalinguistic awareness: Help writers understand the conventions of academic register — hedging, nominalization, impersonal constructions — and when to use them
  • Feedback literacy: Teach students not just to receive feedback but to evaluate it critically and make strategic revision decisions

Read the full file on GitHub · 292 lines

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. 9d ago First seen · 292 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 9c1fbfc32e48

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03-academic-writing is a skill published in the GitHub repository gabrielmoreira/agent-skills-mirror (17 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 4,175 tokens. 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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