AI Research Skills Library is a collection of reusable instructions that guide AI agents through research and machine-learning engineering tasks, from finding ideas and writing papers to training, evaluation, and deployment. It is for configuring agents such as Claude Code, Codex, and Gemini to perform research workflows.
Getting it into your agent
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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 | $0.00066 | $0.03339 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00033 | $0.01670 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00013 | $0.00668 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00007 | $0.00334 |
Grade A, and why
systems-paper-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 9d 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.
Copies of this mod
1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:
- systems-paper-writing — 100% identical, 0 lines differ
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 271 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Systems Paper Writing: Paragraph-Level Structural Blueprint
Fine-grained structural guidance for writing 10–12 page systems papers targeting top systems venues: OSDI, SOSP, ASPLOS, NSDI, and EuroSys. This skill provides page allocation per section, paragraph-level blueprints, and writing patterns distilled from authoritative guides and best-paper analysis.
When to Use This Skill
| Scenario | Use This Skill | Use ml-paper-writing Instead |
|---|---|---|
| Structuring a 12-page OSDI/SOSP paper | ✅ | |
| Page budget and paragraph planning | ✅ | |
| Systems-specific evaluation structure | ✅ | |
| General ML paper writing philosophy | ✅ | |
| Citation verification workflow | ✅ | |
| LaTeX templates and formatting | ✅ | |
| NeurIPS/ICML/ICLR paper structure | ✅ |
Boundary: ml-paper-writing provides general writing philosophy, multi-venue templates, and citation verification. This skill focuses exclusively on paragraph-level structural blueprints for systems conferences.
Authoritative Sources
This blueprint synthesizes guidance from established systems researchers:
- Levin & Redell — "How (and How Not) to Write a Good Systems Paper" (SOSP'83 PC Chairs, USENIX/ACM SIGOPS)
- Irene Zhang (MSR/UW) — "Hints on how to write an SOSP paper" (SOSP/OSDI PC)
- Gernot Heiser (UNSW, seL4) — Style Guide + Paper Writing Talk
- Timothy Roscoe (ETH Zürich) — "Writing reviews for systems conferences"
- Mike Dahlin (UT Austin/Google) — "Giving a Conference Talk"
- Yi Ding — "How to write good systems papers?"
- hzwer & DingXiaoH — WritingAIPaper (GitHub 1.3k+ stars)
Full citations and URLs: see references/section-blueprints.md.
12-Page Systems Paper Blueprint
Overview: Page Allocation
| Section | Pages | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| Abstract | ~0.25 | 150–250 words, 5-sentence structure |
| S1 Introduction | 1.5–2 | Problem → Gap → Insight → Contributions |
| S2 Background & Motivation | 1–1.5 | Terms + Production observations |
| S3 Design | 3–4 | Architecture + Module details + Alternatives |
| S4 Implementation | 0.5–1 | Prototype details, LOC, key engineering |
| S5 Evaluation | 3–4 | Setup + End-to-end + Microbenchmarks + Scalability |
| S6 Related Work | 1 | Grouped by methodology, explicit comparison |
| S7 Conclusion | 0.5 | 3-sentence summary |
| Total | ~12 | Submission: 12 pages strict (USENIX) / 11 pages (ACM ASPLOS). Camera-ready: up to 14 pages (USENIX) / 13 pages (ACM). Ranges above span submission through camera-ready. Target 12 pages for initial submission. References unlimited. |
What ships with it
15 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.
- references/checklist.md 12 KB
- references/reviewer-guidelines.md 4.5 KB
- references/section-blueprints.md 16 KB
- references/systems-conferences.md 10 KB
- references/writing-patterns.md 9.2 KB
- templates/asplos2027/main.tex 15 KB
- templates/asplos2027/references.bib 5.1 KB
- templates/nsdi2027/main.tex 15 KB
- templates/nsdi2027/references.bib 5.7 KB
- templates/nsdi2027/usenix-2020-09.sty 2.2 KB
- templates/osdi2026/main.tex 14 KB
- templates/osdi2026/references.bib 5.6 KB
- templates/osdi2026/usenix-2020-09.sty 2.2 KB
- templates/sosp2026/main.tex 17 KB
- templates/sosp2026/references.bib 5.3 KB
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.
- 9d ago First seen · 271 lines · 66 tokens per session scan A ee31b50b2519
systems-paper-writing is a skill published in the GitHub repository Orchestra-Research/AI-Research-SKILLs (12,567 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 66 tokens to every session and 3,339 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 2026-09-03.
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systems-paper-writing
Comprehensive guide for writing systems papers targeting OSDI, SOSP, ASPLOS, NSDI, and EuroSys. Provides paragraph-level structural blueprints, writing patterns, venue-specific checklists, reviewer guidelines, LaTeX templates, and conference deadlines. Use this skill for all systems conference paper writing.
ml-paper-writing
Write publication-ready ML/AI/Systems papers for NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, ACL, AAAI, COLM, OSDI, NSDI, ASPLOS, SOSP. Use when drafting papers from research repos, structuring arguments, verifying citations, or preparing camera-ready submissions. Includes LaTeX templates, reviewer guidelines, and citation verification…
ml-paper-writing
Write publication-ready ML/AI/Systems papers for NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, ACL, AAAI, COLM, OSDI, NSDI, ASPLOS, SOSP. Use when drafting papers from research repos, structuring arguments, verifying citations, or preparing camera-ready submissions. Includes LaTeX templates, reviewer guidelines, and citation verification…
academic-humanizer
Use when researchers ask to remove generic, templated, or AI-like patterns from Chinese or English academic prose, make an AI-assisted draft sound more like the author's own scholarly voice, or audit a paper for “AI味”. Preserve every scientific claim, number, equation, citation, limitation, and uncertainty. Not for…
sci-ssci-polishing
Use when researchers need Chinese academic prose translated into publication-oriented English or English manuscript paragraphs and complete sections polished for SCI, SSCI, or interdisciplinary submission.
science-research-writing
Use when researchers need to plan, draft, revise, or audit an empirical research paper from their own materials, including Introduction, Methods, Results, Discussion, Conclusion, Abstract, and Title, with evidence-preserving and target-journal-aware guidance.