outline-agent

outline-agent is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from leonardodalinky/SciDER. It costs 99 tokens per session (1,370 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of outline-agent, Apache-2.0.

A first-stage research-paper planner that reads an idea, experiment log, LaTeX template, and conference guidelines and produces a structured JSON outline.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan paper sections and subsections, decide which figures to create, outline the introduction and related work, and record section-level citation hints.
Why use it?
It turns scattered project information into an organized writing plan before drafting the paper, while preserving plans for figures, literature searches, and citations.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to plan paper sections and subsections, decide which figures to create, outline the introduction and related work, and record section-level citation hints.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/leonardodalinky/scider/outline-agent
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 leonardodalinky/SciDER --skill outline-agent
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/leonardodalinky/SciDER

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 99 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,370 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 94% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00099 $0.01370
Opus 5 $0.00049 $0.00685
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.00274
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00137

Measured 9d ago against content hash a17b1341f6f6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

outline-agent 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 9d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/validate_outline.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

Origin

This is a copy

94% identical to outline-agent — 1 line 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.

.scider/skills/outline-agent/SKILL.md · 115 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 115 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Outline Agent (Step 1)

Faithful implementation of the Outline Agent from PaperOrchestra (Song et al., 2026, arXiv:2604.05018, App. F.1, pp. 40–44).

Cost: 1 LLM call.

Your task

Read four input files from the workspace and produce a single JSON object at workspace/outline.json with three top-level keys:

  • plotting_plan — array of figure objects
  • intro_related_work_plan — object with introduction_strategy and related_work_strategy
  • section_plan — array of section objects, each with section_title and subsections[]

How to do it

  1. Read the verbatim prompt at references/prompt.md. This is the exact Outline Agent system prompt from the paper. Use it as your system message.
  2. Prepend the Anti-Leakage Prompt from ../paper-orchestra/references/anti-leakage-prompt.md.
  3. Read the four input files:
    • workspace/inputs/idea.md
    • workspace/inputs/experimental_log.md
    • workspace/inputs/template.tex
    • workspace/inputs/conference_guidelines.md
  4. Synthesize across all four — the global instruction in the prompt is "Do not analyze inputs in isolation. You must synthesize information across all provided documents for every step."
  5. Emit a single JSON object following the schema in references/outline-schema.md. Cross-check against references/outline_schema.json (machine-readable).
  6. Save to workspace/outline.json.
  7. Validate:
    python skills/outline-agent/scripts/validate_outline.py workspace/outline.json
    
    If validation fails, fix the JSON and re-validate. Do not proceed to Step 2 or Step 3 with an invalid outline — every downstream agent depends on this schema.

Hard rules from the prompt (do not violate)

These are excerpted from references/prompt.md. The validator enforces them.

Plotting plan (Directive 1)

  • plot_type MUST be exactly one of "plot" or "diagram".
  • data_source MUST be exactly one of "idea.md", "experimental_log.md", or "both".
  • aspect_ratio MUST be exactly one of: "1:1", "1:4", "2:3", "3:2", "3:4", "4:1", "4:3", "4:5", "5:4", "9:16", "16:9", "21:9".
  • figure_id MUST be a semantically meaningful snake_case identifier (e.g., fig_framework_overview, fig_ablation_study_parameter_sensitivity).
  • figure_id MUST NOT contain the word "Figure".

Read the full file on GitHub · 115 lines

Files

What ships with it

6 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.

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. 9d ago First seen · 115 lines · 99 tokens per session scan A a17b1341f6f6

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outline-agent is a skill published in the GitHub repository leonardodalinky/SciDER (88 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 99 tokens to every session and 1,370 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 94% identical to outline-agent, differing in 1 line, and is treated as a copy.

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