academic-polishing

academic-polishing is a skill for Claude Code from joshua-zyy/academic-paper-writer. It costs 151 tokens per session (827 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An academic-writing editor for computer science, AI, and machine-learning papers. It improves prose, reduces common AI-writing patterns, checks whether claims are as strong as the evidence, and rewrites method sections.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to polish paper text, rewrite methods, adjust claim strength, remove detectable AI-style patterns, and run prose and claim-quality checks.
Why use it?
It helps separate language problems from unsupported claims or structural problems, so wording does not overstate what the research shows.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions subagents.

Part of the academic-paper-writer plugin — 8 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to polish paper text, rewrite methods, adjust claim strength, remove detectable AI-style patterns, and run prose and claim-quality checks.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/joshua-zyy/academic-paper-writer/academic-polishing
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 joshua-zyy/academic-paper-writer --skill academic-polishing
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/joshua-zyy/academic-paper-writer

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install academic-paper-writer, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 8 skills.

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Per session 151 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 827 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 $0.00151 $0.00827
Opus 5 $0.00076 $0.00413
Sonnet 5 $0.00030 $0.00165
Haiku 4.5 $0.00015 $0.00083

Measured 12d ago against content hash 7729c6955861, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

academic-polishing 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.

skills/academic-polishing/SKILL.md · 53 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 53 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Academic Polishing

将此 skill 视为"学术文体打磨代理"——不是简单润色,而是执行 prose 质量闸门、去AI化改写、claim 强度控制和 Method 专项叙事强化。

Router Protocol

  1. Read manifest.yaml. It declares always_load files, axes, and references.on_demand.
  2. Read every file listed under always_load. These are the skill's binding rules — not reference material.
  3. Apply the loaded material as constraints:
    • stance.md defines non-negotiable rules, AI Traffic Light, claim strength, evidence-aware boundary, and scope.
    • red-lines.md defines absolute prohibitions. Do not negotiate these.
    • output-contract.md defines deliverables and completion criteria per mode.
    • anti-patterns.md defines known failure modes and their correct alternatives.
  4. Detect the mode using the manifest's mode axis. If ambiguous, ask one concise question.
  5. Echo the selected mode to the user before executing.
  6. Reach for references/ only when the manifest's references.on_demand condition is satisfied.

Structural debt is not language debt. If section_contract_debt = open, only apply local safe edits and return the diagnosis.

Modes

Mode Use when
prose-quality-gate General prose quality check + rewrite
method-prose-rewrite Method section narrative: 问题→设计→机制→收益/边界
de-ai-pass Remove AI writing patterns only
claim-strength-audit Audit and adjust claim strength

Execution

Called internally by academic-paper-writer orchestrator at Step 9.6. The main agent reads this file and references/ to execute polishing in-process (no subagent dispatch). Polishing must not modify project source code, configuration, or data files. Max 2 rewrite rounds.

Independent Use

Input Mode Priority Behavior
"润色一下", "改改语言" prose-quality-gate 2 (fuzzy) Quality gate + rewrite, max 2 rounds
"去掉 AI 味", "不像人类写的" de-ai-pass 2 (fuzzy) AI pattern removal only
"claim 太强了", "降级结论" claim-strength-audit 2 (fuzzy) All claims audited, zero-tolerance check
"改写 Method", "Method 写得太潦草" method-prose-rewrite 2 (fuzzy) Method narrative: problem→design→mechanism→benefit/boundary
Explicit mode name as specified 1 (explicit) Skip inference, use specified mode

Read the full file on GitHub · 53 lines

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 · 53 lines · 151 tokens per session scan A 7729c6955861

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academic-polishing is a skill published in the GitHub repository joshua-zyy/academic-paper-writer (110 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 151 tokens to every session and 827 once invoked, about $0.0008 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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