academic-style

academic-style is a skill for Claude Code from mronkko/claude-academic-research. It costs 107 tokens per session (1,223 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of conventions for writing clear academic prose. It covers paragraph structure, topic sentences, active voice, citation formatting, tense, hedging, and defining unfamiliar terms.

In plain words
What is it for?
Drafting or editing academic Markdown, LaTeX, Quarto, or R Markdown documents.
Why use it?
It gives drafts consistent writing rules before a separate revision or review process. It also clarifies which other workflows handle sourcing citations and checking research results.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the academic-research plugin — 11 skills, 1 plugin shipped together

Good fit Drafting or editing academic Markdown, LaTeX, Quarto, or R Markdown documents.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/mronkko/claude-academic-research/academic-style
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 mronkko/claude-academic-research --skill academic-style
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mronkko/claude-academic-research

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install academic-research, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 11 skills, 1 plugin.

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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Your own site
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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 1,223 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 $0.01223
Opus 5 $0.00053 $0.00611
Sonnet 5 $0.00021 $0.00245
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00122

Measured 11d ago against content hash 2c7284d13599, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

academic-style 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/academic-style/SKILL.md · 113 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 113 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Academic style

No pre-flight, no bootstrap by design. This is a doctrine skill — pure prose conventions. It does not call MCPs, does not install project scaffolds, and does not need /setup to have run. The procedural skills (zotero-operations, systematic-review, fact-check, critic-loop) gate themselves on check_configured.py; this one stays out of the way.

Core rule

Academic prose follows a small set of conventions that the agent applies during drafting, not only at revision time. These are the rules the critic-loop argument critic checks later — but writing them in correctly the first time reduces how much the critic loop has to fix.

This skill governs style and conventions only. It does not govern:

  • Citation sourcing (Zotero-backed, consulted, claim-supporting) → grounded-citations rule-book.
  • Quantitative claims (numbers from pipeline files) → empirical-integrity rule-book.
  • When and how to revise a draft → manuscript-revision + the critic-loop skill.

Citations (APA-style)

Formatting only; sourcing is governed by grounded-citations — follow both. Format conventions:

  • Inline: [@key] produces "(Smith, 2019)".
  • Parenthetical with multiple: [@key1; @key2] produces "(Jones, 2020; Smith, 2019)".
  • Narrative: @key [-@key] produces "Smith (2019)" / "Smith's (2019)".
  • Three or more authors: render as et al. automatically via the CSL; do not hand-type "et al.".
  • Cite the most specific pinpointable source. When a claim could come from a review or from the primary paper, cite the primary.

Voice and tense

  • Active voice where it strengthens clarity: "We coded 1,243 papers" over "1,243 papers were coded". Passive is acceptable when the actor is unknown or unimportant.
  • Methods in past tense (this study's actions): "We ran a pilot search against Scopus".
  • Theory and established findings in present (ongoing truth): "Self-efficacy predicts persistence".
  • Discussion is present when interpreting ("Our findings suggest") and past when describing what this study did ("We found").

Read the full file on GitHub · 113 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. 11d ago First seen · 113 lines · 107 tokens per session scan A 2c7284d13599

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academic-style is a skill published in the GitHub repository mronkko/claude-academic-research (23 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 107 tokens to every session and 1,223 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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