Claude Scientific Writer is an AI-assisted research and writing tool that searches literature and produces documents such as scientific papers, reports, posters, grant proposals, and reviews with citations. Researchers and technical writers can use it as a Claude Code plugin, Python package, or command-line tool, with the catalogue entries defining agent workflows for it.
Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to K-Dense-AI/claude-scientific-writer. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.
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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 | $0.00060 | $0.03674 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00030 | $0.01837 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00012 | $0.00735 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00006 | $0.00367 |
Grade A, and why
latex-posters 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.
This is a copy
94% identical to latex-posters — 20 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 370 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
LaTeX Research Posters
Overview
Research posters are a critical medium for scientific communication at conferences, symposia, and academic events. This skill provides comprehensive guidance for creating professional, visually appealing research posters using LaTeX packages. Generate publication-quality posters with proper layout, typography, color schemes, and visual hierarchy.
When to Use This Skill
This skill should be used when:
- Creating research posters for conferences, symposia, or poster sessions
- Designing academic posters for university events or thesis defenses
- Preparing visual summaries of research for public engagement
- Converting scientific papers into poster format
- Creating template posters for research groups or departments
- Designing posters that comply with specific conference size requirements (A0, A1, 36×48", etc.)
- Building posters with complex multi-column layouts
- Integrating figures, tables, equations, and citations in poster format
AI-Powered Visual Element Generation
STANDARD WORKFLOW: Generate ALL major visual elements using AI before creating the LaTeX poster.
This is the recommended approach for creating visually compelling posters:
- Plan all visual elements needed (title, intro, methods, results, conclusions)
- Generate each element using scientific-schematics or Nano Banana Pro
- Assemble generated images in the LaTeX template
- Add text content around the visuals
Target: 60-70% of poster area should be AI-generated visuals, 30-40% text.
Hard limits (do not exceed)
These are limits, not guidelines. Violating them is the single most common cause of a failed poster. Full reasoning, per-graphic-type tables, and worked examples are in references/ai_graphics_for_posters.md.
| Constraint | Limit |
|---|---|
| Elements per AI-generated graphic | 3-4 maximum (3 ideal) |
| Words per graphic | 10 maximum |
| White space per graphic | 50% minimum (60% better) |
| Key numbers / metrics | 120pt+ |
| Labels | 80pt+ |
| Body text on the poster | 24pt+ |
| Content sections (A0) | 5-6 maximum |
| Total words on the poster | 300-800 |
| Figure width | 0.85\linewidth, never 1.0 |
What ships with it
16 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.
- assets/baposter_template.tex 7.3 KB
- assets/beamerposter_template.tex 7.5 KB
- assets/poster_quality_checklist.md 11 KB
- assets/tikzposter_template.tex 7.7 KB
- references/ai_graphics_for_posters.md 24 KB
- references/compilation_and_quality_control.md 14 KB
- references/latex_poster_packages.md 17 KB
- references/latex_poster_reference.md 7.2 KB
- references/poster_content_guide.md 20 KB
- references/poster_design_principles.md 22 KB
- references/poster_layout_design.md 22 KB
- references/poster_patterns_and_presentation.md 2.6 KB
- references/README.md 12 KB
- scripts/generate_schematic_ai.py 33 KB runs code
- scripts/generate_schematic.py 7.3 KB runs code
- scripts/review_poster.sh 7.8 KB runs code
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 · 370 lines · 60 tokens per session scan A 17a728e47d2c
latex-posters is a skill published in the GitHub repository K-Dense-AI/claude-scientific-writer (2,327 stars, last pushed 24d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 60 tokens to every session and 3,674 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 94% identical to latex-posters, differing in 20 lines, and is treated as a copy.
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