What is text.convert_to_latex?

A text-formatting procedure that converts mathematical formulas and symbols into LaTeX, a notation system commonly used for typeset mathematics. It keeps the surrounding text structure and meaning unchanged.

Use it to rewrite equations, probability expressions, and mathematical arrows in a text file, then check the result with a text linter.

It makes formulas more consistent and readable in documents that support LaTeX instead of leaving them as plain text or Unicode symbols.

text.convert_to_latex — Skill for Claude Code by gpsaggese/helpers

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 gpsaggese/helpers --skill text.convert_to_latex

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/gpsaggese/helpers

Made for: Claude Code.

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README.md

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Per session 8 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 482 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00008	$0.00482
Opus 5.5	$0.00003	$0.00193
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00002	$0.00096
Haiku 4.5	$0.00001	$0.00048

Measured yesterday against content hash d2d27e68fb08, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

text.convert_to_latex 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 yesterday.

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.

.claude/skills/text.convert_to_latex/SKILL.md · 71 lines

What it actually says

Goal

Convert formulas to Latex leaving the structure of the text exactly the same
Use the rules and conventions in .claude/skills/latex.rules.md

Workflow

Convert Mathematical Formulas

Convert mathematical formulas to Latex without changing their meaning and formatting so that they are easily readable
- Bad (uses Unicode symbols instead of LaTeX)
```
P(M | D) ∝ P(D | M) P(M)
```
- Good (uses LaTeX macros for a readable formula)
```
$$
\Pr(M | D) \propto \Pr(D | M)\, \Pr(M)
$$
```
- Bad (plain text notation, not LaTeX)
```
a* = argmax_a E_{M~P(M|D)}[Goal | do(a), M]
```
- Good (LaTeX formula)
```
$$
a^* = \arg\max_a
  \EE_{M | \Pr(M | D)}
  \left[
    \text{Goal} | do(a), M
  \right]
$$
```

Convert Symbols to Latex

Convert symbols into Latex ones, together with variables if needed:
- Bad (Unicode arrow instead of LaTeX)
```
X → Y
```
- Good (LaTeX symbol)
```
$X \to U$
```

If there are expressions then leave them unchanged

Bad

"If battery low" → seek charging station

Bad

"If battery low" $\to$ seek charging station

Lint the File

After the conversion run the command:
```
> lint_text.py -i <FILE>
```

Verification

Confirm all formulas render correctly in LaTeX
Confirm non-formula expressions remain unchanged
Confirm lint_text.py -i <FILE> completes without errors

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.

yesterday First seen · 71 lines · 8 tokens per session scan A d2d27e68fb08

Subscribe to this mod's changes

text.convert_to_latex is a skill published in the GitHub repository gpsaggese/helpers (158 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 8 tokens to every session and 482 once invoked, about $0.0000 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-11-06.

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