academic-writing

academic-writing is a skill for Claude Code from KhaledSaeed18/dotclaude. It costs 113 tokens per session (1,271 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to writing or revising thesis and paper sections in the style expected for computer-science research. It explains how to make claims traceable to notes or results, define terms, choose suitable wording, and use figures, tables, and citations.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps write abstracts, introductions, related-work sections, methods, results, discussions, and conclusions, with appropriate structure, tense, hedging, and cross-references.
Why use it?
Academic writing can become unclear or make claims stronger than the evidence allows. This guide gives each section a purpose and helps a skeptical reader check the argument.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter.

Part of the thesis plugin — 21 skills, 3 commands, 2 agents shipped together

Good fit It helps write abstracts, introductions, related-work sections, methods, results, discussions, and conclusions, with appropriate structure, tense, hedging, and cross-references.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/khaledsaeed18/dotclaude/academic-writing
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 KhaledSaeed18/dotclaude --skill academic-writing
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/KhaledSaeed18/dotclaude

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install thesis, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 21 skills, 3 commands, 2 agents.

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Per session 113 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,271 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 $0.00113 $0.01271
Opus 5.5 $0.00045 $0.00508
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00023 $0.00254
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00127

Measured 25d ago against content hash 7509178434a7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

academic-writing 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 25d 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.

.claude-plugin/plugins/thesis/skills/academic-writing/SKILL.md · 58 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 58 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Academic prose has one job: let a sceptical reader check a claim. Every device below exists for that reader. Write for the examiner who will read chapter 4 at 11pm looking for a reason to ask a hard question at the defence.

Before writing a section

  1. Read the research question record and the outline for the chapter. If neither exists, ask for the section's purpose in one sentence; do not start from a blank page.
  2. Read the notes or results the section must draw on (research/notes/, result tables, figures). Everything you state must be traceable to one of them or to the student.
  3. Confirm the target: length, the department's style guide, the citation style, and whether the document is LaTeX or Word (this changes how you write cross-references and citations, never what you write).

Section by section

Abstract (150 to 300 words, written last): context in one sentence; the problem or gap; what was done (method, scale); the main result with a number; what it means. No citations, no abbreviations undefined, no "this thesis is organised as follows".

Introduction: the problem and why it matters now; the gap in one paragraph with two or three citations; the research questions verbatim; the contributions as a short list, each a noun phrase a reader could check; the thesis structure in three sentences. Length: 5 to 8% of the thesis.

Related work / background: comes from lit-review-synthesis; every paragraph opens with a claim about the field and ends by relating it to this thesis. The last paragraph is the gap.

Method: what was done, precisely enough to replicate. Past tense, passive voice acceptable ("the data were collected"), but name the agent when it matters ("the author labelled the samples"). Subsections follow the sub-questions. Design decisions get one sentence of justification each, with the alternative rejected. Threats to validity live here or in a dedicated section, never omitted.

Results: what was observed, without interpretation. Each table and figure is introduced by a sentence that says what to look at ("Table 4 shows that variant B halves latency at all input sizes"), followed by the exact numbers, then the caveat. Report variance (standard deviation, confidence interval, number of runs). Present tense for what the data show.

Read the full file on GitHub · 58 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. 25d ago First seen · 58 lines · 113 tokens per session scan A 7509178434a7

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academic-writing is a skill published in the GitHub repository KhaledSaeed18/dotclaude (5 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 113 tokens to every session and 1,271 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-09-22.

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