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 neuromechanist/research-skills --skill manuscript-writinggit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/neuromechanist/research-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/neuromechanist/research-skills/manuscript-writing)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/neuromechanist/research-skills/manuscript-writing"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/neuromechanist/research-skills/manuscript-writing/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/neuromechanist/research-skills/manuscript-writing"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/neuromechanist/research-skills/manuscript-writing.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- 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 | $0.00068 | $0.01017 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00034 | $0.00508 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00014 | $0.00203 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00007 | $0.00102 |
Grade A, and why
manuscript-writing 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 109 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Academic Manuscript Writing
Guide the drafting and revision of academic manuscripts following journal conventions and scientific writing best practices.
When to Use
- Drafting a new manuscript from scratch
- Writing or revising specific sections (Introduction, Methods, Results, Discussion)
- Structuring a paper from experimental results
- Converting a conference paper to a journal submission
- Responding to reviewer comments with revised text
Manuscript Structure
Standard IMRAD Format
| Section | Purpose | Tense | Length Guide |
|---|---|---|---|
| Title | Convey main finding | N/A | 10-15 words |
| Abstract | Self-contained summary | Past (methods/results), Present (conclusions) | 150-300 words |
| Introduction | Context, gap, hypothesis | Present (known facts), Past (prior work) | 3-5 paragraphs |
| Methods | Reproducibility | Past | As needed |
| Results | Report findings | Past | Parallel to Methods |
| Discussion | Interpret findings | Present (interpretation), Past (what was found) | 4-6 paragraphs |
| Conclusion | Key takeaways | Present | 1-2 paragraphs |
Section-by-Section Guidance
Introduction
Structure as a funnel:
- Broad context - Establish the field and importance (1-2 paragraphs)
- Narrow focus - What is known about the specific topic (1-2 paragraphs)
- Gap statement - What remains unknown or problematic
- Objective/hypothesis - What this paper addresses and how
Methods
- Enough detail for replication
- Subsections mirror Results sections
- Include: participants/subjects, materials, procedures, analysis
- Statistical methods: specify tests, software, significance thresholds
- Ethics: IRB/IACUC approval statement
Results
- Present findings without interpretation
- Start each subsection with the analysis performed, then the outcome
- Report effect sizes, confidence intervals (not just p-values)
- Reference figures and tables in order
- Use "significant" only for statistical significance
What ships with it
2 files 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.
- 12d ago First seen · 109 lines · 68 tokens per session scan A 13300ec8f78f
manuscript-writing is a skill published in the GitHub repository neuromechanist/research-skills (45 stars, last pushed 9d ago), licensed BSD-3-Clause. It adds 68 tokens to every session and 1,017 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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