research-writing-literature

research-writing-literature is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from hanhuark/mechanical-engineering-research-skill. It costs 45 tokens per session (579 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of instructions for writing research papers and literature reviews as connected arguments rather than lists of paper summaries. It covers sections such as introductions, methods, results, discussions, abstracts, citations, and figure explanations.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to draft or revise research narratives, literature reviews, manuscript sections, technical introductions, methods, results discussions, abstracts, and related-work sections.
Why use it?
It helps turn technical sources and results into a clear research story while keeping claims supported and qualified. It also provides guidance for choosing references and avoiding formulaic writing.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: shipped in a Claude Code plugin, but also agents/openai.yaml present.

Part of the thermal-fluid-research-workflow plugin — 9 skills, 17 commands shipped together

Good fit Use it to draft or revise research narratives, literature reviews, manuscript sections, technical introductions, methods, results discussions, abstracts, and related-work sections.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/hanhuark/mechanical-engineering-research-skill/research-writing-literature
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 hanhuark/mechanical-engineering-research-skill --skill research-writing-literature
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/hanhuark/mechanical-engineering-research-skill

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install thermal-fluid-research-workflow, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 9 skills, 17 commands.

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Per session 45 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 579 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 $0.00045 $0.00579
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00290
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00116
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00058

Measured 2d ago against content hash da9845e8bdcc, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

research-writing-literature 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 2d 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/research-writing-literature/SKILL.md · 37 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 37 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Research Writing And Literature

Purpose

Build a research story rather than a sequence of paper summaries. Every paragraph needs a central topic, normally in its first sentence; each later sentence must develop, support, qualify, or transition from it.

Route To References

  • For critical literature synthesis, read references/literature-review.md.
  • For journal-paper structure and results-led storytelling, read references/paper-writing-style.md.
  • For section-specific technical writing, methods, DOE, and figure discussion, read references/technical-writing-analysis.md.
  • When matching the calibrated research style and its evidence boundaries, read references/han-hu-research-style.md.
  • For a final pass against formulaic AI-like drafting habits, read references/anti-formulaic-writing.md.

Introduction And Background

Use the chain: importance and applications; state of the art; remaining issue; why it persists; the proposed innovation; and its likely significance. Do not claim novelty merely because no prior work exists. Identify why the missing work is challenging and how the approach resolves a meaningful barrier.

Citations And Synthesis

Use FirstAuthor et al. for a multi-author narrative citation unless the target format requires otherwise. State a paper's method and takeaway in one efficient sentence when possible; avoid a redundant second sentence that only repeats its result. Group background studies by mechanism, method, material, or evidence type, and place citations beside the claim they support. Do not attach a broad citation range to a sentence that conflates distinct categories.

After each source group, state the limitation, contradiction, or knowledge gap that motivates the next step. Include background references fairly across major theories and research groups; trace seminal work backward through its references and forward through citing work.

Methods, Models, And Results

Methods must make the work reproducible: facility/model details, procedure, data reduction, uncertainty, assumptions, and justification. For results, use four levels: figure description, observation, physical explanation, and comparison with existing work. State whether agreement, disagreement, or a new regime is supported, and limit claims to the evidence.

Read the full file on GitHub · 37 lines

Files

What ships with it

6 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. 2d ago First seen · 37 lines · 45 tokens per session scan A da9845e8bdcc

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research-writing-literature is a skill published in the GitHub repository hanhuark/mechanical-engineering-research-skill (16 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 45 tokens to every session and 579 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 2026-09-10.

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