ppw:abstract

ppw:abstract is a skill for Claude Code from Lylll9436/Paper-Polish-Workflow-skill. It costs 67 tokens per session (2,835 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An academic abstract generator and editor using a five-sentence structure: contribution, difficulty, method, evidence, and key result. An abstract is the short summary placed at the start of a research paper.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to write or restructure an abstract, including one adapted to a specified journal's style.
Why use it?
It helps turn raw paper material into a complete summary or reorganise an existing abstract around the key information readers need. It shows the labelled structure before providing a clean copy.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Part of the paper-polish-workflow plugin — 16 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to write or restructure an abstract, including one adapted to a specified journal's style.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/lylll9436/paper-polish-workflow-skill/ppw-abstract
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 Lylll9436/Paper-Polish-Workflow-skill --skill ppw-abstract
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Lylll9436/Paper-Polish-Workflow-skill

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install paper-polish-workflow, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 16 skills.

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.

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README.md
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Per session 67 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,835 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 $0.00067 $0.02835
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.01418
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00567
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00283

Measured 12d ago against content hash c3daba62def9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ppw:abstract 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 12d 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/ppw-abstract/SKILL.md · 240 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 240 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Purpose

This Skill generates or optimizes academic paper abstracts using the locked 5-sentence Farquhar formula: [1: Contribution], [2: Difficulty], [3: Method], [4: Evidence], [5: Key Result]. It operates on two mutually exclusive paths — generate a new abstract from raw materials (paper sections, bullet points, or a brief description), or restructure an existing abstract to comply with the formula. Both paths produce labeled output first so users can verify formula compliance sentence by sentence, followed by a clean plain-paragraph version ready for clipboard use. When a target journal is specified, journal-specific style conventions are applied.

Trigger

Activates when the user asks to:

  • Write, generate, or create an abstract from paper content
  • Optimize, restructure, or rewrite an existing abstract
  • 写摘要、生成摘要、改写摘要、优化摘要

Example invocations:

  • "Write an abstract for my paper" / "帮我写摘要"
  • "Optimize my existing abstract" / "改写我的摘要"
  • "Restructure this abstract using the 5-sentence formula"
  • "Generate a CEUS-ready abstract from my introduction and results"

Modes

Mode Default Behavior
direct Yes Single-pass abstract output using the 5-sentence formula
batch Not supported — abstract requires full paper context

Default mode: direct. User provides content and receives labeled + clean abstract in one pass.

Path selection (within direct mode):

  • Input reads like a formed abstract → restructure path
  • Input is raw content (sections, bullets, "my paper is about...") → generate path
  • Ambiguous → ask before proceeding

References

Required (always loaded)

File Purpose
references/expression-patterns.md Academic expression patterns overview

Leaf Hints (loaded when needed)

File When to Load
references/expression-patterns/introduction-and-gap.md Contribution and gap framing (sentences 1-2)
references/expression-patterns/conclusions-and-claims.md Calibrated claim language (sentences 1 and 5)
references/expression-patterns/methods-and-data.md Method description (sentence 3, when weak)
references/expression-patterns/results-and-discussion.md Evidence and result framing (sentences 4-5)

Read the full file on GitHub · 240 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. 12d ago First seen · 240 lines · 67 tokens per session scan A c3daba62def9

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ppw:abstract is a skill published in the GitHub repository Lylll9436/Paper-Polish-Workflow-skill (386 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 67 tokens to every session and 2,835 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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