latex-professional

latex-professional is a skill for Codex from GalaxyRuler/Galactic-skills. It costs 142 tokens per session (3,053 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A specialist guide for LaTeX and TeX projects, which are text-based systems for producing formatted documents such as papers, theses, books, and slides. It covers source files, bibliographies, figures, and build errors.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create, edit, compile, debug, or package LaTeX documents and their `.bib`, image, style, and bibliography files.
Why use it?
It helps find missing files, citation problems, and the first meaningful error in a failed PDF build. It also supports safe compilation and packaging documents for submission.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present. Also seen: mentions Claude Code.

Good fit Use it to create, edit, compile, debug, or package LaTeX documents and their .bib, image, style, and bibliography files.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/galaxyruler/galactic-skills/latex-professional
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 GalaxyRuler/Galactic-skills --skill latex-professional
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/GalaxyRuler/Galactic-skills

Made for: Codex.

Wrote 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.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 142 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,053 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 $0.00142 $0.03053
Opus 5 $0.00071 $0.01527
Sonnet 5 $0.00028 $0.00611
Haiku 4.5 $0.00014 $0.00305

Measured 11d ago against content hash bcc9e3b40223, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

latex-professional 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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 7 executable files (scripts/build-latex-safe.ps1, scripts/build-latex-safe.sh, scripts/check-bib.py, …), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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/latex-professional/SKILL.md · 175 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 175 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

LaTeX Professional Skill

<when_to_use> Use for LaTeX, TeX, BibTeX, BibLaTeX, Biber, natbib, latexmk, arXiv packaging, academic papers, theses, books, reports, Beamer slides, equations, tables, figures, captions, labels, citations, publisher templates, .tex/.bib/.bst/.sty/.cls files, or LaTeX compile errors. </when_to_use>

Resources (progressive disclosure — load only what the task needs)

Scripts (scripts/, read-only, Python 3.10+; run with python scripts/<name>):

Script Use
find-main-tex.py [root] [--json] Rank likely main .tex files.
latex-project-inventory.py [root] [--json] Full read-only inventory: sources, engine hints, bib backend, assets, build systems, submission artifacts.
parse-latex-log.py <file.log> [--json] Extract the first meaningful error + all findings from a build log.
check-latex-assets.py [main.tex] [--json] Verify \includegraphics/\input/\include/bibliography files exist.
check-bib.py [paths…] [--json] Lint .bib for duplicate keys, unbalanced braces, missing fields.
build-latex-safe.sh / build-latex-safe.ps1 Safe latexmk wrapper — no shell escape unless explicitly flagged.

Reference playbooks (references/, load on demand):

Playbook Load when
compile-error-playbook.md Diagnosing a build failure or .log.
main-file-discovery.md Identifying the main file in an unfamiliar project.
bibliography-backends.md Any citation / bibliography-backend work.
math-preservation.md Editing equations or mathematical text.
package-compatibility.md Option clashes, load-order errors, engine choice.
tables-and-figures.md Building or fixing tables and figures.
submission-arxiv.md Preparing an arXiv upload.
journal-template-modes.md IEEE / ACM / Springer / Elsevier / RevTeX / thesis targets.

Read the full file on GitHub · 175 lines

Files

What ships with it

57 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. 11d ago First seen · 175 lines · 142 tokens per session scan A bcc9e3b40223

Subscribe to this mod's changes

latex-professional is a skill published in the GitHub repository GalaxyRuler/Galactic-skills (5 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 142 tokens to every session and 3,053 once invoked, about $0.0007 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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