Getting it into your agent
It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/LeonChaoX/qinyan-academic-skillsnpx agentmods add skills/leonchaox/qinyan-academic-skills/venue-templatesWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/leonchaox/qinyan-academic-skills/venue-templates)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/leonchaox/qinyan-academic-skills/venue-templates"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/leonchaox/qinyan-academic-skills/venue-templates/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>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.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/leonchaox/qinyan-academic-skills/venue-templates"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/leonchaox/qinyan-academic-skills/venue-templates.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- NVIDIA SkillSpector pass
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 | $0.00097 | $0.05297 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00039 | $0.02119 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00019 | $0.01059 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00010 | $0.00530 |
Grade A, and why
venue-templates 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 1mo 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.
Copies of this mod
7 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:
- venue-templates — 100% identical, 0 lines differ
- venue-templates — 97% identical, 5 lines differ
- venue-templates — 97% identical, 4 lines differ
- venue-templates — 97% identical, 3 lines differ
- venue-templates — 92% identical, 5 lines differ
- venue-templates — 92% identical, 3 lines differ
- venue-templates — 92% identical, 5 lines differ
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 689 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Venue Templates
Overview
Access comprehensive LaTeX templates, formatting requirements, and submission guidelines for major scientific publication venues, academic conferences, research posters, and grant proposals. This skill provides ready-to-use templates and detailed specifications for successful academic submissions across disciplines.
Use this skill when preparing manuscripts for journal submission, conference papers, research posters, or grant proposals and need venue-specific formatting requirements and templates.
When to Use This Skill
This skill should be used when:
- Preparing a manuscript for submission to a specific journal (Nature, Science, PLOS, IEEE, etc.)
- Writing a conference paper with specific formatting requirements (NeurIPS, ICML, CHI, etc.)
- Creating an academic research poster for conferences
- Drafting grant proposals for federal agencies (NSF, NIH, DOE, DARPA) or private foundations
- Checking formatting requirements and page limits for target venues
- Customizing templates with author information and project details
- Verifying document compliance with venue specifications
Visual Enhancement with Scientific Schematics
When creating documents with this skill, always consider adding scientific diagrams and schematics to enhance visual communication.
If your document does not already contain schematics or diagrams:
- Use the scientific-schematics skill to generate AI-powered publication-quality diagrams
- Simply describe your desired diagram in natural language
- Nano Banana Pro will automatically generate, review, and refine the schematic
For new documents: Scientific schematics should be generated by default to visually represent key concepts, workflows, architectures, or relationships described in the text.
How to generate schematics:
python scripts/generate_schematic.py "your diagram description" -o figures/output.png
The AI will automatically:
- Create publication-quality images with proper formatting
- Review and refine through multiple iterations
- Ensure accessibility (colorblind-friendly, high contrast)
- Save outputs in the figures/ directory
What ships with it
24 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.
- assets/examples/cell_summary_example.md 8.7 KB
- assets/examples/medical_structured_abstract.md 12 KB
- assets/examples/nature_abstract_examples.md 8.7 KB
- assets/examples/neurips_introduction_example.md 8.6 KB
- assets/grants/nih_specific_aims.tex 8.9 KB
- assets/grants/nsf_proposal_template.tex 13 KB
- assets/journals/nature_article.tex 6.1 KB
- assets/journals/neurips_article.tex 8.7 KB
- assets/journals/plos_one.tex 11 KB
- assets/posters/beamerposter_academic.tex 8.3 KB
- references/cell_press_style.md 14 KB
- references/conferences_formatting.md 17 KB
- references/cs_conference_style.md 15 KB
- references/grants_requirements.md 22 KB
- references/journals_formatting.md 17 KB
- references/medical_journal_styles.md 16 KB
- references/ml_conference_style.md 17 KB
- references/nature_science_style.md 13 KB
- references/posters_guidelines.md 17 KB
- references/reviewer_expectations.md 15 KB
- references/venue_writing_styles.md 12 KB
- scripts/customize_template.py 6.7 KB runs code
- scripts/query_template.py 8.7 KB runs code
- scripts/validate_format.py 8.6 KB runs code
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.
- 1mo ago First seen · 689 lines · 97 tokens per session scan A 0d53a8d2a848
venue-templates is a skill published in the GitHub repository LeonChaoX/qinyan-academic-skills (980 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 97 tokens to every session and 5,297 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-08-30.
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