scientific-writing: Skill for Claude Code

.claude/skills/validate/SKILL.md

validate is a skill for Claude Code from koljaschoepe/scientific-writing. It costs 33 tokens per session (1,274 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A project-validation procedure that checks configuration files, research records, progress data, citation-style files, and folder structure for consistency. It is intended for a German academic-writing project with defined thesis types and research methods.

In plain words
What is it for?
Checking academic project setup, citation-style availability, source-workflow settings, page and formatting limits, and the consistency of project files.
Why use it?
It catches missing, invalid, or conflicting project settings before they cause problems in the writing workflow. It also reports warnings for unusual choices, such as missing sources in a master's thesis.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/.

This is koljaschoepe/scientific-writing's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on scientific-writing itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything scientific-writing configures →

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/validate/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/koljaschoepe/scientific-writing

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 33 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,274 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 $0.00033 $0.01274
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.00637
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00255
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00127

Measured 8d ago against content hash a7d19b344266, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

validate 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 8d 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/skills/validate/SKILL.md · 130 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 130 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Projekt validieren

Prüft config.yaml, literature.md, progress.json und die Verzeichnisstruktur auf Konsistenz und Fehler.

Ablauf

1. config.yaml prüfen

Lies config.yaml und prüfe:

Pflichtfelder (nach /setup):

  • projekt.typ muss eines von: seminararbeit, hausarbeit, bachelor, master, dissertation
  • projekt.methodik muss eines von: literatur, empirisch-qualitativ, empirisch-quantitativ
  • projekt.sprache muss "de" sein (einzige aktuell unterstützte Sprache)
  • formatierung.zitationsstil muss eines von: harvard-inline, apa7, ieee, chicago
  • formatierung.seitenumfang.min < formatierung.seitenumfang.max
  • formatierung.schriftgroesse zwischen 10 und 14
  • formatierung.zeilenabstand zwischen 1.0 und 2.0

Zitationsstil-Datei prüfen:

  • Prüfe ob base/guides/citation-systems/{zitationsstil}.md existiert
  • Falls nicht: Fehler melden mit Liste der verfügbaren Stile

Quellen-Workflow prüfen:

  • quellen.workflow muss eines von: bibtex, pdf-extraktion, manuell, keine
  • Falls "keine" und typ ist master oder dissertation: Warnung ("Ohne Quellen bei einer [Typ] ist ungewöhnlich")
  • Falls "bibtex" und quellen.import_pfad leer: Warnung ("Import-Pfad fehlt")

2. progress.json prüfen

Lies output/progress.json und prüfe gegen das Dateisystem:

Dateisystem-Abgleich: Für jede abgeschlossene Phase: Prüfe ob tatsächlich Dateien in output/phase-XX-*/final/ liegen.

Phase Erwartete Dateien in final/
1 phase-01-brainstorming/final/brainstorming-result.md
2 phase-02-outline/final/outline.md UND thesis-structure.yaml
3 phase-03-citations/final/citation-mapping.md
4 Mindestens eine Datei in phase-04-plans/final/
5 Mindestens eine Datei in phase-05-writing/final/
6 Mindestens eine Datei in phase-06-review/final/

Diskrepanzen melden:

  • Phase als abgeschlossen markiert aber keine Dateien vorhanden: FEHLER
  • Dateien vorhanden aber Phase nicht als abgeschlossen markiert: WARNUNG

Read the full file on GitHub · 130 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. 8d ago First seen · 130 lines · 33 tokens per session scan A a7d19b344266

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validate is a skill published in the GitHub repository koljaschoepe/scientific-writing (11 stars, last pushed 21d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 33 tokens to every session and 1,274 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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