abstract-writer

abstract-writer is a skill for Claude Code from muhammad1438/academic-writer-skills. It costs 0 tokens per session (2,057 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A writing guide for creating, reviewing, rewriting, or improving academic abstracts. An abstract is the short, self-contained summary readers often use to decide whether to read a research paper, dissertation, conference submission, or journal manuscript.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to structure or evaluate abstracts, choose an appropriate abstract type, and prepare summaries for research papers, dissertations, conference submissions, and journal articles.
Why use it?
It helps match the abstract to its purpose and format, including the difference between a descriptive overview and an informational summary with methods, findings, and conclusions.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the academic-writer plugin — 27 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to structure or evaluate abstracts, choose an appropriate abstract type, and prepare summaries for research papers, dissertations, conference submissions, and journal articles.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/muhammad1438/academic-writer-skills/abstract-writer
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 muhammad1438/academic-writer-skills --skill abstract-writer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/muhammad1438/academic-writer-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install academic-writer, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 27 skills.

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Per session 0 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,057 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

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ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00000 $0.02057
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.01028
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00411
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00206

Measured 12d ago against content hash 4f04f122371d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

abstract-writer 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/abstract-writer/SKILL.md · 194 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 194 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Abstract Writer

The abstract is the vital threshold to an academic paper — often the sole text read during preliminary literature searches. It functions as a standalone proxy for the entire document. Its structural integrity is paramount.


Two Primary Abstract Types

1. Descriptive Abstract

  • Functions like a table of contents in paragraph form
  • Outlines broad scope and overarching purpose
  • Does NOT include findings, conclusions, or recommendations
  • Length: typically under 100 words
  • Used in: humanistic essays, broad theoretical reviews, book proposals
  • Purpose: entice the reader to access the full text

2. Informational Abstract (Standard for Most Academic Writing)

  • Acts as a comprehensive surrogate for the full document
  • Must stand alone — a reader should understand the study without reading the paper
  • Tightly aligned with IMRAD structure
  • Length: typically 150–300 words (check journal guidelines)
  • Used in: STEM, empirical social sciences, technical reports, journal manuscripts

The Structured Abstract Format

Used by many medical and social science journals (BMJ, Lancet, APA journals):

Section Content ~Word Count
Background/Context Why does this topic matter? What is the problem? 30–40
Objective/Aim What did this study set out to do? 15–25
Methods How was it done? (design, participants, measures, analysis) 40–60
Results What were the key findings? Include key statistics. 40–60
Conclusion What do the findings mean? What is the implication? 20–30

The 5-Move Informational Abstract Framework

Even for unstructured abstracts, ensure all 5 rhetorical moves are present:

  1. Establish context / significance — Why does this matter to the field?
  2. State the problem or gap — What is unknown or unresolved?
  3. Describe the methodology — How was the research conducted?
  4. Present the key results — What was found? (Be specific — include numbers where relevant)
  5. State the implication / conclusion — What does it mean for the field, practice, or future research?

Read the full file on GitHub · 194 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 · 194 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 4f04f122371d

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abstract-writer is a skill published in the GitHub repository muhammad1438/academic-writer-skills (6 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 2,057 tokens. 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 2026-08-31.

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