CCFA Skills is a family of agent skills that helps researchers develop the storyline and presentation of CCF-A research papers. It supports work across research ideas, literature, experiments, writing, figures, reviews, rebuttals, and submission while keeping the argument connected. The catalogue entry consists of the project's research-writing skills and plugin.
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.
npx skills add mikubaka88/CCFA-Skills --skill ccf-paper-to-exemplargit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mikubaka88/CCFA-SkillsWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/mikubaka88/ccfa-skills/ccf-paper-to-exemplar)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/mikubaka88/ccfa-skills/ccf-paper-to-exemplar"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/mikubaka88/ccfa-skills/ccf-paper-to-exemplar/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/mikubaka88/ccfa-skills/ccf-paper-to-exemplar"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/mikubaka88/ccfa-skills/ccf-paper-to-exemplar.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- Socket pass
- Snyk pass
- NVIDIA SkillSpector pass
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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00062 | $0.00989 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00031 | $0.00495 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00012 | $0.00198 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00006 | $0.00099 |
Grade A, and why
ccf-paper-to-exemplar 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 6d 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 35 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Paper-to-Exemplar
Scope And Shared Controls
Distill supplied paper PDFs into reusable writing patterns, preserving source attribution and scientific meaning. This skill owns exemplar cards; manuscript drafting belongs to ccf-paper-writer, visual reconstruction to ccf-visual-composer, and scientific review to ccf-paper-reviewer.
Follow ../ccf-common/references/handoff-modes.md, ../ccf-common/references/task-modes.md, and ../ccf-common/references/artifact-contracts.md. Resolve existing card/library and cache paths before writing. Preserve no-new-files requests by editing a named existing card or returning the analysis in context. Conversion alone does not authorize global library/default changes.
Workflow
- Identify PDF paths, source versions, desired writing patterns, optional venue, and authorized destination. Reuse a completed card and extraction when they match the same source and requested scope; a new source version requires checking the affected analysis.
- If extraction is needed, run
scripts/convert.pywith explicit--output-dir,--full-text, and--full-text-dirpointing to the chosen working cache. For a new project, the shared default isoutput/paper-to-exemplar/<source-id>/, with extraction incache/; preserve established paths. The converter preserves existing cards and creates only missing skeletons.--full-text-diris optional; omitting it preserves the legacy output layout. Python withpymupdfis required for extraction, not for reusing a valid existing card. - Check extraction success and page markers. Analyze the relevant full source in coherent sections; use search and targeted ranges for a local card update. Inspect actual PDF pages when equations, figures, or reading order affect interpretation. Do not substitute an abstract-only analysis for a full-paper exemplar or treat empty extraction as complete.
- Recover the source's story, abstract/introduction/method/evidence moves, citation patterns, and reusable techniques. Do not force a limitations ending. Use
../ccf-paper-writer/references/prose-quality-guardrails.mdto exclude defensive habits, artificial labels, formula dumping, unsupported hype, and mechanical prose from the advice. - Fill or revise the existing card in place using the section headings generated by
scripts/convert.pyand established cards: Story Pattern, Abstract Moves, Introduction Moves, Method Moves, Evidence Moves, Citation Patterns, Reusable Techniques, and Do-Not-Copy Boundary. Record title, venue/year when verified, source identity/version, and relevant page/section anchors. Add Excluded Anti-Patterns only when the source supplies a material example. Keep writing moves separate from source claims and distinctive wording. - When library registration is requested, use
../ccf-paper-writer/references/exemplars/cards/or the user's existing library and update../ccf-paper-writer/references/exemplars/index.mdwithout duplicate entries. Preserve unrelated cards; a matching filename alone does not prove the same source. Keep raw extraction in the working cache, outside the reusable card library. - Update
../ccf-paper-writer/references/custom-format/default-user-format.mdonly when default selection is requested. A venue-only request can select an existing relevant card through the index instead of extracting another PDF. Load../ccf-paper-writer/references/venue-guides/index.mdonly when venue-family classification is unclear. - Verify that completed cards have no
[ANALYZE]or[MANUAL]placeholders, source references are accurate, and output/cache paths are orderly. Return the canonical card paths and the useful writing patterns; report actual registration/default changes only when performed. Do not echo the full PDF extraction or add generic next-action menus.
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.
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.
- 6d ago Changed · -102 lines · -40 tokens per session 0f874432ae3b
- 13d ago First seen · 137 lines · 102 tokens per session scan A 13864d6e9526
ccf-paper-to-exemplar is a skill published in the GitHub repository mikubaka88/CCFA-Skills (2,422 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 62 tokens to every session and 989 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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