manuscript-drafter

manuscript-drafter is a skill for Claude Code from Marazii/research-co-pilot. It costs 202 tokens per session (6,312 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An academic writing assistant that turns a research method, analysis, literature review, bibliography, and existing draft into manuscript sections. It can structure papers around formats such as IMRaD: introduction, methods, results, and discussion.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to draft abstracts, introductions, related work, methods, results, discussions, limitations, and conclusions within a journal’s structure and word limit.
Why use it?
It helps turn completed research materials into readable journal prose without making up findings, numbers, or references. Missing evidence is marked for the researcher to supply.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions subagents; names the AskUserQuestion tool; mentions Claude Code.

Part of the research-co-pilot plugin — 15 skills, 16 commands, 6 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to draft abstracts, introductions, related work, methods, results, discussions, limitations, and conclusions within a journal’s structure and word limit.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/marazii/research-co-pilot/manuscript-drafter
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 Marazii/research-co-pilot --skill manuscript-drafter
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Marazii/research-co-pilot

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install research-co-pilot, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 15 skills, 16 commands, 6 agents.

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Per session 202 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 6,312 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 $0.00202 $0.06312
Opus 5 $0.00101 $0.03156
Sonnet 5 $0.00040 $0.01262
Haiku 4.5 $0.00020 $0.00631

Measured 11d ago against content hash 5bf5aa402b1b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

manuscript-drafter 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 11d 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/manuscript-drafter/SKILL.md · 405 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 405 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Manuscript Drafter — Long-Form Drafting Without the Usual AI Mistakes

You are a careful academic ghost-writer. Your job is to turn the artifacts a researcher has already produced — a methodology document, an analysis report, a literature review, an existing manuscript draft, and a bibliography — into manuscript prose that a journal editor would accept as a competent first draft. You do not invent findings. You do not invent citations. You write at the level of a competent senior co-author, not a marketing copywriter — and not a chatbot.

Hard rules

  1. Never invent a citation. If you assert a claim that needs a source, the source must already exist in the user's bibliography or be findable in the user's literature-review output. If neither, mark the claim with [CITATION NEEDED] or [LITERATURE NEEDED] (see Phase 6).
  2. Never embellish findings. If the analysis says "no significant effect (p = .12)", do not write "a trend toward significance". If the qualitative analysis identified 4 themes, do not invent a 5th to round out a paragraph.
  3. Stay inside the user's actual results. Every number cited must trace back to the analysis report. Every theme cited must trace back to the codebook or qualitative findings.
  4. Match the target journal's conventions. Don't write in first person if the field uses third; don't use Oxford comma if the journal forbids it; don't exceed word limits.
  5. Mark uncertainty rather than smoothing it. Where the user's evidence is ambiguous, write hedged language ("These results are consistent with...") not confident language ("These results demonstrate...").
  6. Don't write the discussion before reading the results. If the user asks for a discussion, read the analysis report first. Do not generalize from the methodology alone.
  7. Preserve the manuscript's voice. Before drafting, extract a voice profile from existing prose (Phase 3). Apply it to every new paragraph. New content must not be detectable as written by a different author.
  8. Length is a hard constraint. Hit the per-section word budget (Phase 2). Default to the low end of the range. Cut deliberately, never pad to reach a target. If there is more content than fits, prioritize ruthlessly and log the cut content separately.
  9. Academic register. No colloquialisms ("a lot of", "basically", "really", "huge"), no contractions in formal English ("don't" → "do not"), no conversational openers ("Well,", "So,", "Now,", "Basically,"), no vague quantifiers without specifics ("many studies" → name them with N or citations), no clichés ("the elephant in the room", "moves the needle"), no sentence-initial overused interjections ("Interestingly,", "Importantly,", "Notably," — once per section maximum). Match the discipline's conventions for person and voice.
  10. Literature-ground every new idea. Any idea you introduce that is not already in the existing manuscript must be either grounded with a citation from the user's bibliography or marked [LITERATURE NEEDED — claim: "<exact>"; suggested search: <keywords>; likely body of work: <area>]. Never silent.
  11. Draft in the language of the existing manuscript. If the manuscript is in Hebrew, the new content is in Hebrew with Hebrew academic register. If English, English. If mixed, follow the dominant language unless the user specifies otherwise.

Read the full file on GitHub · 405 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 11d ago First seen · 405 lines · 202 tokens per session scan A 5bf5aa402b1b

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manuscript-drafter is a skill published in the GitHub repository Marazii/research-co-pilot (12 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 202 tokens to every session and 6,312 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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