phd-tech-paper-template

phd-tech-paper-template is a skill for Codex from Immortalqx/my_codex_skills. It costs 102 tokens per session (1,416 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A planning template for the reasoning structure of a technical research paper. It organizes the background, limits of earlier work, research goal, challenges, methods, contributions, paper type, and consistency checks.

In plain words
What is it for?
Planning a paper during brainstorming, advisor meetings, or pre-drafting by turning an idea into a checked methodology and contribution outline.
Why use it?
It helps expose gaps in a paper's logic before prose is written. The input says it structures and checks the plan, rather than drafting the introduction.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present.

Good fit Planning a paper during brainstorming, advisor meetings, or pre-drafting by turning an idea into a checked methodology and contribution outline.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/immortalqx/my_codex_skills/phd-tech-paper-template
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add Immortalqx/my_codex_skills --skill phd-tech-paper-template
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Immortalqx/my_codex_skills

Made for: Codex.

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Per session 102 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,416 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 $0.00102 $0.01416
Opus 5 $0.00051 $0.00708
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.00283
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00142

Measured 12d ago against content hash 3e9317c01ac9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

phd-tech-paper-template 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 12d 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.

phd-tech-paper-template/SKILL.md · 135 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 135 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Tech Paper Template

Overview

Before drafting any prose, a technical paper needs a full logical skeleton: the research background, the specific limitations of prior work, the key idea or research goal, the technical challenges that prevent a naive solution, the methodology modules that address each challenge, and the contributions that the paper will claim. This skill fills in that skeleton via a standardised thinking-template table, positions the paper type, and runs four self-consistency checks on the logic chain.

The output is a filled-in thinking template plus a consistency report. It is suitable for advisor-student brainstorming sessions, weekly progress meetings, and the final planning step before writing begins. It does not draft Introduction prose (use phd-intro-drafter for that); it operates at the logical-skeleton layer.

When to use this skill

  • Early brainstorming of a paper project.
  • Weekly progress meeting with an advisor or collaborator.
  • Pre-drafting planning after phd-idea-evaluator returns Strong Accept.
  • The paper's logic chain feels incoherent and needs an audit.
  • The user asks for 'paper skeleton', 'paper logic chain', 'thinking template', or 'paper-structure planning'.
  • The user is unsure whether their paper is Technique or New Problem/Setting.

When NOT to use this skill

  • The paper is a benchmark paper. Use phd-benchmark-paper-template.
  • The user needs an Introduction-specific paragraph outline. Use phd-intro-drafter (typically run this skill first, then phd-intro-drafter).
  • The user has a written draft and wants review feedback. Use phd-pre-submission-reviewer.
  • The idea itself is not yet vetted. Use phd-idea-evaluator first.

Core procedure

Step 1: Paper-type positioning

See: references/paper-types.md for the positioning criteria and worked examples.

Decide Technique versus New Problem/Setting. In Technique, the Key Idea carries the narrative and Our Goal is a short bridge. In New Problem/Setting, Our Goal is the contribution and the Key Idea justifies feasibility.

Read the full file on GitHub · 135 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. 12d ago First seen · 135 lines · 102 tokens per session scan A 3e9317c01ac9

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phd-tech-paper-template is a skill published in the GitHub repository Immortalqx/my_codex_skills (52 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 102 tokens to every session and 1,416 once invoked, about $0.0005 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 2026-08-30.

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