manuscript-typography

manuscript-typography is a skill for Claude Code from Mathews-Tom/armory. It costs 107 tokens per session (8,450 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A typography review tool for academic manuscripts, especially LaTeX papers. It checks common conventions for tables, captions, punctuation, numbers, units, references, page layout, and visual hierarchy.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review table and figure styling, captions, cross-references, page breaks, typography, and other presentation details after the manuscript’s content is settled.
Why use it?
It helps make a paper easier to read and more professionally presented, even when no particular journal’s formatting rules are being applied.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the armory plugin — 85 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to review table and figure styling, captions, cross-references, page breaks, typography, and other presentation details after the manuscript’s content is settled.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/mathews-tom/armory/manuscript-typography
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 Mathews-Tom/armory --skill manuscript-typography
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Mathews-Tom/armory

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install armory, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 85 skills.

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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 107 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 8,450 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00107 $0.08450
Opus 5 $0.00053 $0.04225
Sonnet 5 $0.00021 $0.01690
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00845

Measured 8d ago against content hash 38fd033e0fbd, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

manuscript-typography 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 8d 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-typography/SKILL.md · 709 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 709 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Manuscript Typography Audit

Pipeline position: Phase 2b (polish audit). Runs in parallel with manuscript-provenance. Depends on: content settled after Phase 1 fixes. See /manuscript-pipeline for full execution order.

Purpose

Audit a LaTeX manuscript for widely-accepted academic typographic conventions that directly affect readability and professional appearance. These are not venue-specific formatting rules — they are cross-venue norms from decades of academic publishing that experienced readers and reviewers notice.

A paper with solid content but poor typography signals inexperience. Reviewers form impressions from visual presentation before reading a single sentence.

Relationship to Other Skills

Concern manuscript-review manuscript-typography (this) arxiv-preflight
Table content Data quality, significant figures (§12) Design: booktabs, alignment, headers, caption placement Format compliance
Figure content Colorblind, axis labels, chartjunk (§12) Design: font matching, backgrounds, subfigure style Format/size compliance
Rendered output Legibility, float proximity, page breaks (§23) Layout: widows, column balance, spacing, float specifiers N/A
Math notation Notation consistency, operator formatting (§15) Spacing, delimiter sizing, display vs inline choices N/A
Cross-refs Citation hygiene (§11) Reference style consistency, non-breaking spaces N/A
Typography N/A Dashes, quotes, units, micro-typography N/A
Polish N/A TODOs, placeholders, metadata, bookmarks N/A

Rule: This skill audits design and typography. manuscript-review audits content and communication. arxiv-preflight audits submission compliance. No overlap — each reads different signals from the same document.

Workflow

1. Ingest

Read all .tex files (main + \input/\include targets). Identify:

  • Document class and loaded packages
  • Two-column vs single-column layout
  • Target venue (if identifiable from class/template)

Read the full file on GitHub · 709 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. 8d ago First seen · 709 lines · 107 tokens per session scan A 38fd033e0fbd

Subscribe to this mod's changes

manuscript-typography is a skill published in the GitHub repository Mathews-Tom/armory (316 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 107 tokens to every session and 8,450 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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