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.
npx skills add joshua-zyy/academic-paper-writer --skill academic-latex-layoutgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/joshua-zyy/academic-paper-writerWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/joshua-zyy/academic-paper-writer/academic-latex-layout)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/joshua-zyy/academic-paper-writer/academic-latex-layout"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/joshua-zyy/academic-paper-writer/academic-latex-layout/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/joshua-zyy/academic-paper-writer/academic-latex-layout"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/joshua-zyy/academic-paper-writer/academic-latex-layout.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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 | $0.00066 | $0.00345 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00033 | $0.00172 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00013 | $0.00069 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00007 | $0.00034 |
Grade A, and why
academic-latex-layout 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 13d 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.
What it actually says
Academic LaTeX Layout
LaTeX layout and float-placement router for academic papers. Optimize figure/table placement by semantic adjacency and compiled PDF evidence, not by source-level hacks.
Router Protocol
- Read
manifest.yaml. - Read every file listed under
always_load. - Detect exactly one mode from the manifest.
- Echo the selected mode before executing.
- Reach for
references/only when the manifest condition is satisfied.
Modes
| Mode | Use when |
|---|---|
draft-to-latex-layout |
Draft + template + existing figures/tables must become LaTeX with semantically placed floats |
layout-repair |
Existing .tex project has float pileups, text/figure drift, blank areas, or two-column layout problems |
layout-audit |
User wants diagnosis only, without edits |
Boundaries
Do not generate data figures; use academic-figure. Do not broadly polish prose; use academic-polishing. Do not decide which figures the paper should contain.
Completion Criteria
- Template constraints identified or bounded.
- Figure/table semantic map produced.
- Direct edits follow risk policy.
- Compile and PDF preview loop run when feasible; otherwise bounded assessment explains the blocker.
- Final report follows
references/report-format.md.
What ships with it
12 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.
- manifest.yaml 1.8 KB
- references/float-placement-patterns.md 3.1 KB
- references/layout-audit-contract.md 926 B
- references/pdf-preview-loop.md 2.1 KB
- references/report-format.md 1.6 KB
- references/template-constraints.md 1.6 KB
- references/workflow-draft-to-latex-layout.md 2.1 KB
- references/workflow-layout-repair.md 3.6 KB
- static/core/anti-patterns.md 1.3 KB
- static/core/output-contract.md 1.7 KB
- static/core/red-lines.md 1.1 KB
- static/core/stance.md 2.3 KB
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.
- 13d ago First seen · 37 lines · 66 tokens per session scan A 6a4ab1f3ecdc
academic-latex-layout is a skill published in the GitHub repository joshua-zyy/academic-paper-writer (110 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 66 tokens to every session and 345 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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