A word-count and page-estimation tool for thesis chapters. It compares the written length with the planned length, using an estimate based on typical academic formatting.

Use it to count words and paragraphs, estimate pages, compare chapters with the plan, and see whether each chapter is a draft or final version.

It shows whether chapters and the whole thesis are too short or too long without counting Markdown formatting or document metadata.

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/wordcount/SKILL.md

Clone the repo

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

Made for: Claude Code.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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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Per session 34 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 692 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00034	$0.00692
Opus 5	$0.00017	$0.00346
Sonnet 5	$0.00007	$0.00138
Haiku 4.5	$0.00003	$0.00069

Measured 11d ago against content hash 63f9379ba61c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

wordcount 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 11d 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/wordcount/SKILL.md · 75 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 75 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Wortanzahl und Seitenschätzung

Zählt Wörter in allen geschriebenen Kapiteln und vergleicht mit dem Plan.

Ablauf

1. Daten sammeln

Lies:

config.yaml -- Seitenumfang (min/max)
output/phase-02-outline/final/thesis-structure.yaml -- Geplante Seitenverteilung
Alle Kapitel in output/phase-05-writing/final/ UND output/phase-05-writing/draft/

2. Wörter zählen

Für jede Kapiteldatei:

Zähle Wörter (ohne YAML-Frontmatter, ohne Markdown-Syntax)
Zähle Absätze
Status: draft oder final

3. Seitenschätzung

Umrechnungsformel: ca. 250-300 Wörter pro Seite (bei 12pt, 1.5 Zeilenabstand). Verwende den Mittelwert (275) als Standard.

Erwartungen an den Arbeitstyp (aus config.yaml):

seminararbeit: 10-20 Seiten (2.750-5.500 Wörter)
hausarbeit: 15-25 Seiten (4.125-6.875 Wörter)
bachelor: 40-60 Seiten (11.000-16.500 Wörter)
master: 50-100 Seiten (13.750-27.500 Wörter)
dissertation: 150+ Seiten (41.250+ Wörter)

Nutze die konkreten Werte aus config.formatierung.seitenumfang.min/max falls vorhanden.

4. Ausgabe formatieren

=== Wortanzahl und Seitenschätzung ===

| Kapitel | Titel | Wörter | Seiten (ca.) | Geplant | Status |
|---------|-------|---------|-------------|---------|--------|
| 1.1 | [Titel] | 450 | ~1.6 | 1-2 | final |
| 1.2 | [Titel] | 380 | ~1.4 | 1-2 | final |
| 2.1 | [Titel] | 850 | ~3.1 | 3-4 | draft |
| 2.2 | [Titel] | -- | -- | 3-4 | offen |
| ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... |

Gesamt: [X] Wörter, ~[Y] Seiten
Zielbereich: [Min]-[Max] Seiten

[Falls unter Minimum:]
HINWEIS: Du liegst [Z] Seiten unter dem Minimum. Kapitel [X.X] und [Y.Y]
haben Potential für mehr Tiefe.

[Falls über Maximum:]
HINWEIS: Du liegst [Z] Seiten über dem Maximum. Kapitel [X.X] könnte
gekürzt werden.

[Falls im Bereich:]
Deine Arbeit liegt im Zielbereich. Weiter so!

5. Abweichungswarnung

Für Kapitel mit > 15% Abweichung vom Plan:

Abweichungen vom Plan (> 15%):
- Kapitel [X.X]: [Y] Wörter geschrieben, [Z] geplant ([+/-] XX%)

Read the full file on GitHub · 75 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.

11d ago First seen · 75 lines · 34 tokens per session scan A 63f9379ba61c

Subscribe to this mod's changes

wordcount is a skill published in the GitHub repository koljaschoepe/scientific-writing (11 stars, last pushed 24d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 34 tokens to every session and 692 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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