generating-writeup

generating-writeup is a skill for Claude Code from qte77/claude-code-plugins. It costs 35 tokens per session (1,128 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A writing workflow for producing academic papers and technical reports with IEEE-style numbered citations and optional PDF export.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create project reports, software documentation, bibliographies, Markdown files, and optional PDFs made with Pandoc.
Why use it?
It provides a consistent structure and citation process, reducing the work needed to turn research into reviewed documentation.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: $CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT variable. Also seen: mentions Claude Code.

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the docs-generator plugin — 3 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to create project reports, software documentation, bibliographies, Markdown files, and optional PDFs made with Pandoc.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add qte77/claude-code-plugins
Claude Code
/plugin install docs-generator

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install docs-generator, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 3 skills.

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Per session 35 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,128 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

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 $0.00035 $0.01128
Opus 5.5 $0.00014 $0.00451
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00007 $0.00226
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00113

Measured 23d ago against content hash 60218142ce37, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

generating-writeup 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 23d 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.

plugins/docs-generator/skills/generating-writeup/SKILL.md · 105 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 105 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Writeup Generation

Target: $ARGUMENTS

Generates structured academic/technical writeups as markdown with citation support. IEEE [1] style by default. PDF export via pandoc is optional.

Workflow

  1. Parse arguments - Extract topic, template (default: project-report-IMRaD), and citation style
  2. Create directory - docs/write-up/<topic>/
  3. Copy template - Copy from templates/ to docs/write-up/<topic>/:
    • project-report-IMRaD — scientific/academic (Introduction, Methods, Results, Discussion)
    • technical-doc — software documentation (Overview, Architecture, API, Config, Deployment)
  4. Fill sections - Replace TODO comments in each chapter file
  5. Setup bibliography - Add entries to 09a_bibliography.bib
  6. Run markdownlint - npx markdownlint-cli docs/write-up/<topic>/*.md
  7. Generate PDF (optional) - If pandoc is available, run make pandoc_run

Additional Resources

  • Templates: project-report-IMRaD/ | technical-doc/
  • Setup help: make -f $CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT/Makefile setup_pdf_converter HELP
  • Pandoc help: make -f $CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT/Makefile pandoc_run HELP=1

Citation Styles

Style CSL File Notes
IEEE (default) Bundled (scripts/writeup/citation-styles/ieee.csl) Numeric [1]
APA Bundled (scripts/writeup/citation-styles/apa.csl) Author-date (Smith, 2024)
Chicago Bundled (scripts/writeup/citation-styles/chicago-author-date.csl) Author-date (Smith 2024)

Additional CSL files are available from the Zotero Style Repository.

PDF Export (Optional)

If pandoc and LaTeX are installed, generate PDF using the bundled Makefile:

dir=docs/write-up/<topic> && \
make -f $CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT/Makefile pandoc_run \
  INPUT_FILES="$$(printf '%s\036' $$dir/*.md)" \
  OUTPUT_FILE="$$dir/output.pdf" \
  BIBLIOGRAPHY="$$dir/09a_bibliography.bib"

Read the full file on GitHub · 105 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. 23d ago Changed · +35 tokens per session 60218142ce37
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 105 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 8e99ad95689c

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generating-writeup is a skill published in the GitHub repository qte77/claude-code-plugins (3 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 35 tokens to every session and 1,128 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-08-31.

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