scientific-writing-voice

scientific-writing-voice is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from LuuOW/meridian-mcp. It costs 77 tokens per session (1,595 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A writing guide for explaining scientific research clearly to educated non-specialists, using the style of science news and research features. It focuses on structure, tone, accuracy, and keeping important measurements while reducing technical detail.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to write research digests, science-journalism summaries, newsletters, or explanations of technical papers for time-limited readers.
Why use it?
It helps turn dense academic papers into readable short briefs without losing the findings or their conditions.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to write research digests, science-journalism summaries, newsletters, or explanations of technical papers for time-limited readers.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/luuow/meridian-mcp/scientific-writing-voice
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add LuuOW/meridian-mcp --skill scientific-writing-voice
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/LuuOW/meridian-mcp

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 77 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,595 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 $0.00077 $0.01595
Opus 5 $0.00039 $0.00797
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00319
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00160

Measured 9d ago against content hash b1aa51685ea4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

scientific-writing-voice 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.

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.

skills/scientific-writing-voice/SKILL.md · 109 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 109 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

scientific-writing-voice

When to invoke

  • Writing a 200–800 word brief of a technical paper
  • Drafting newsletter prose about research
  • Calibrating an LLM system prompt that asks for science-journalism tone
  • Editing a colleague's overly-hedged academic text toward a broader readership

The target register (what "Quanta-meets-Nature" actually means)

  1. Precise without being technical. Keep every quantitative claim (masses in MeV/c², statistical significance in σ, redshifts, temperatures). Strip the derivation apparatus (equations, Feynman diagrams, group-theoretic notation) — you're conveying what was found, not how to reproduce it.
  2. Confident, not hedging. Avoid "the authors claim / suggest / argue". State the finding. If you want to qualify, say "Under the assumption that dark matter couples only through the Higgs portal, the mass window narrows to…". Write conditions as conditions, not as linguistic hedges.
  3. Active voice, concrete subjects. Not "it was observed that" — "The Parkes Pulsar Timing Array observed…".
  4. Lead with the discovery, not the context. Readers of a brief have ~30 seconds to decide if they care.
  5. Short paragraphs (2–4 sentences). White space is a navigation aid.

Canonical structure (200–600 words)

TL;DR — one sentence, ≤40 words

Opens with a boldface **TL;DR:**. Names the phenomenon, the chief numerical result, and the setting.

TL;DR: Scalar-tensor mixing during a brief early matter-dominated epoch generates a stochastic gravitational-wave background in the nanohertz band compatible with the NANOGrav 15-year excess.

¶1 — What was studied

Name the system, the measurement or simulation, the scale. Do not explain what a pulsar timing array is unless the paper's novelty depends on it.

¶2 — How

Methodology in 2–4 sentences. Instruments, sample sizes, statistical frameworks. Mention what separates this attempt from prior work ("the first analysis that jointly fits the spectral index and amplitude").

Read the full file on GitHub · 109 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. 9d ago First seen · 109 lines · 77 tokens per session scan A b1aa51685ea4

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scientific-writing-voice is a skill published in the GitHub repository LuuOW/meridian-mcp (0 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 77 tokens to every session and 1,595 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-09-03.

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