A command that turns a LaTeX project into a PDF document. LaTeX is a system for writing and formatting technical documents, such as theses.

Compiling a finished thesis into PDF, creating draft PDFs with placeholders for unfinished chapters, and installing LaTeX when needed.

It checks whether the project is ready and whether LaTeX is installed before compiling, reducing errors caused by missing chapters, settings, or tools. Draft mode lets you check the layout before the document is complete.

How koljaschoepe/scientific-writing configures Claude Code

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to koljaschoepe/scientific-writing. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file

curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/koljaschoepe/scientific-writing/main/.claude/skills/compile/SKILL.md

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/koljaschoepe/scientific-writing

Made for: Claude Code.

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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.

README.md

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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.

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Per session 29 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 1,009 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.

Security scan B 1 finding. 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00029	$0.01009
Opus 5	$0.00015	$0.00504
Sonnet 5	$0.00006	$0.00202
Haiku 4.5	$0.00003	$0.00101

Measured 9d ago against content hash bde1b284eb57, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

compile scanned grade B with 1 finding 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 9d 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.

Asks for rootmediumPrivilege escalation

A mod that escalates privileges can change anything on the machine, not only the project.

`sudo apt install texlive-xetex texlive-fonts-extra texlive-lang-german latexmk`"

.claude/skills/compile/SKILL.md · 106 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 106 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

LaTeX kompilieren

Startet den LaTeX-Export und die PDF-Kompilierung.

Ablauf

1. Modus bestimmen

Normaler Modus (/compile):

Alle Kapitel müssen geschrieben sein

Draft-Modus (/compile draft oder /compile --draft):

Kompiliert auch mit unvollständigen Kapiteln

Fehlende Kapitel werden als Platzhalter eingefügt:

\section{[Kapiteltitel]}
\textit{[Kapitel noch nicht geschrieben -- Platzhalter]}
\newpage

Deckblatt zeigt "ENTWURF" als Wasserzeichen oder Hinweis
Nützlich um Layout und Umfang während des Schreibens zu prüfen

1b. Vorbedingungen prüfen

output/phase-02-outline/final/thesis-structure.yaml vorhanden
config.yaml vollständig konfiguriert
LaTeX installiert (siehe Auto-Installation unten)
Alle Kapitel in output/phase-05-writing/final/ vorhanden (nur im normalen Modus)

1b. LaTeX Auto-Installation

Prüfe mit which xelatex && which latexmk:

Falls installiert:

Setze config.yaml -> latex.installation_geprüft: true
Weiter mit Schritt 2

Falls NICHT installiert:

OS erkennen (uname -s)
macOS: "LaTeX ist nicht installiert. Soll ich es installieren? brew install --cask mactex-no-gui (ca. 4 GB Download)"
- Falls User zustimmt: Befehl ausführen (kann mehrere Minuten dauern)
- Falls brew nicht installiert: "Bitte installiere zuerst Homebrew: https://brew.sh"
Linux (Debian/Ubuntu): "LaTeX ist nicht installiert. Soll ich es installieren? sudo apt install texlive-xetex texlive-fonts-extra texlive-lang-german latexmk"
- Falls User zustimmt: Befehl ausführen
Anderes OS: "LaTeX ist nicht installiert. Bitte installiere manuell: https://tug.org/texlive/ oder https://miktex.org"
Nach erfolgreicher Installation: latex.installation_geprüft: true setzen
Falls User ablehnt: "Ohne LaTeX kann kein PDF erstellt werden. Du kannst später erneut /compile ausführen."

Falls nicht alle Kapitel geschrieben (normaler Modus): "Es fehlen noch Kapitel: [Liste]. Optionen:

/write [X.X] um fehlende Kapitel zu schreiben
/compile draft um eine Entwurfs-PDF mit Platzhaltern zu erstellen"

Read the full file on GitHub · 106 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.

9d ago First seen · 106 lines · 29 tokens per session scan B bde1b284eb57

Subscribe to this mod's changes

compile is a skill published in the GitHub repository koljaschoepe/scientific-writing (11 stars, last pushed 23d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 29 tokens to every session and 1,009 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (asks for root). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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