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 muhammad1438/academic-writer-skills --skill paraphrasing-enginegit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/muhammad1438/academic-writer-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.
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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 | $0.00000 | $0.02374 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00000 | $0.01187 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00000 | $0.00475 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00000 | $0.00237 |
Grade A, and why
paraphrasing-engine 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 10d 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 — 216 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Paraphrasing Engine
Academic integrity is the bedrock of scholarly communication. The ability to paraphrase, summarise, and quote correctly is one of the most important skills in all academic writing — and one of the most commonly done wrong.
The Four Types of Plagiarism
| Type | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|
| Direct / Verbatim | Copying exact words without quotation marks and citation | Pasting a sentence from a source unchanged |
| Mosaic / Patchwriting | Mixing original words with synonyms without changing structure; keeping sentence architecture while swapping some words | Changing 3–4 words in an original sentence |
| Paraphrase Plagiarism | Restructuring a sentence but staying too close to the source's logic and phrasing | Changing passive to active but keeping all the same ideas in the same order |
| Self-Plagiarism | Reusing substantial portions of one's own previously submitted or published work without disclosure | Copying paragraphs from your previous essay into a new paper |
Common knowledge does not require citation: well-established facts known by any educated person in the field (e.g., "The Second World War ended in 1945"). When in doubt, cite.
The 6-Step Paraphrasing Process
- Read the original passage carefully until you fully understand it
- Close the source — do not look at it while writing
- Write the idea entirely in your own words from memory
- Compare your version to the original — check that you have changed both the wording AND the sentence structure
- Add a citation — paraphrasing still requires attribution
- Verify — your version should not share more than 2–3 consecutive words with the original
Paraphrasing Techniques
Technique 1: Change Sentence Structure
- Original: "The researchers found that students who slept fewer than six hours performed significantly worse on memory tasks."
- Paraphrase: "Memory performance was significantly impaired among students who reported sleeping less than six hours, according to the researchers."
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.
- 10d ago First seen · 216 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 7317cce5cbae
paraphrasing-engine 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 2,374 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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