Academic Paper Skills is a Claude Code framework for planning and writing philosophy and interdisciplinary academic papers through structured research and drafting workflows. It is intended for researchers who want to develop ideas into checked, submission-ready manuscripts, and its catalogue entries are the strategist and composer skills that provide this workflow.
Getting it into your agent
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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 | $0.00201 | $0.05001 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00101 | $0.02500 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00040 | $0.01000 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00020 | $0.00500 |
Grade A, and why
academic-paper-strategist 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 13d 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
3 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:
- academic-paper-strategist — 100% identical, 0 lines differ
- academic-paper-strategist — 100% identical, 0 lines differ
- pr-paper-strategist — 94% identical, 18 lines differ
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 671 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Academic Paper Strategist
Overview
This skill provides a systematic framework for strategic planning of academic papers in philosophy and interdisciplinary research. It guides you through three phases—from platform selection to optimized outline—with AI-driven literature search, research gap identification, originality assessment, and quality-controlled outline design.
Output: A detailed, review-ready paper outline with supporting documentation (platform style guide, literature review, gap analysis, reviewer assessment).
Companion Skill: Use academic-paper-composer to execute the outline and write the full paper.
When to Use This Skill
Use academic-paper-strategist when you need to:
Planning Stage:
- Design a research paper from initial idea to structured outline
- Identify a suitable publication platform (PhilArchive, arXiv, etc.)
- Understand writing standards for a specific preprint platform
Research Stage:
- Conduct systematic literature search
- Identify research gaps with evidence
- Assess originality of your research idea
- Predict potential impact
Design Stage:
- Structure paper chapters and arguments
- Optimize outline from reviewer perspective
- Prepare submission-ready strategy
Triggers:
- "Plan a paper on [topic]"
- "Help me design a paper about [subject]"
- "Identify research gaps in [field]"
- "Is this idea original?"
- "What platform should I submit to?"
Workflow Overview
Phase 1: PLATFORM ANALYSIS (Target Selection + Style Learning)
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Phase 2: THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK (AI-Driven Gap Identification)
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Phase 3: OUTLINE OPTIMIZATION (Quality-Controlled Design)
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Output: Detailed Outline + Supporting Documentation
Quality Gates: 3 validation checkpoints ensure each phase meets standards before proceeding.
Phase 1: Platform Analysis
Goal
Identify the optimal submission platform and understand its writing standards through systematic sample paper analysis.
What ships with it
4 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.
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.
- 13d ago First seen · 671 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A a68c003ffdd6
academic-paper-strategist is a skill published in the GitHub repository lishix520/academic-paper-skills (1,283 stars, last pushed 8mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 201 tokens to every session and 5,001 once invoked, about $0.0010 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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