outline-agent

outline-agent is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from raja21068/AutoResearch. It costs 99 tokens per session (1,364 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of outline-agent, MIT.

The outline stage of a research-paper pipeline. It combines an idea, experiment log, paper template, and conference rules into a structured plan for figures, literature searches, and sections.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create a JSON outline for a research paper, including a plotting plan, an introduction and related-work search plan, and a section-by-section writing plan.
Why use it?
It turns scattered research requirements into one document that can guide later writing and source collection. This makes the paper's argument and evidence easier to organize before drafting.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to create a JSON outline for a research paper, including a plotting plan, an introduction and related-work search plan, and a section-by-section writing plan.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/raja21068/autoresearch/outline-agent
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add raja21068/AutoResearch --skill outline-agent
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/raja21068/AutoResearch

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 99 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,364 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 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00099 $0.01364
Opus 5 $0.00049 $0.00682
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.00273
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00136

Measured 6d ago against content hash 685512f9d7d6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

outline-agent 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 6d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/validate_outline.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to outline-agent — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

skills/paper-pipeline/outline-agent/SKILL.md · 114 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 114 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Outline Agent (Step 1)

Faithful implementation of the Outline Agent from PaperOrchestra (Song et al., 2026, arXiv:2604.05018, App. F.1, pp. 40–44).

Cost: 1 LLM call.

Your task

Read four input files from the workspace and produce a single JSON object at workspace/outline.json with three top-level keys:

  • plotting_plan — array of figure objects
  • intro_related_work_plan — object with introduction_strategy and related_work_strategy
  • section_plan — array of section objects, each with section_title and subsections[]

How to do it

  1. Read the verbatim prompt at references/prompt.md. This is the exact Outline Agent system prompt from the paper. Use it as your system message.
  2. Prepend the Anti-Leakage Prompt from ../paper-orchestra/references/anti-leakage-prompt.md.
  3. Read the four input files:
    • workspace/inputs/idea.md
    • workspace/inputs/experimental_log.md
    • workspace/inputs/template.tex
    • workspace/inputs/conference_guidelines.md
  4. Synthesize across all four — the global instruction in the prompt is "Do not analyze inputs in isolation. You must synthesize information across all provided documents for every step."
  5. Emit a single JSON object following the schema in references/outline-schema.md. Cross-check against references/outline_schema.json (machine-readable).
  6. Save to workspace/outline.json.
  7. Validate:
    python skills/outline-agent/scripts/validate_outline.py workspace/outline.json
    
    If validation fails, fix the JSON and re-validate. Do not proceed to Step 2 or Step 3 with an invalid outline — every downstream agent depends on this schema.

Hard rules from the prompt (do not violate)

These are excerpted from references/prompt.md. The validator enforces them.

Plotting plan (Directive 1)

  • plot_type MUST be exactly one of "plot" or "diagram".
  • data_source MUST be exactly one of "idea.md", "experimental_log.md", or "both".
  • aspect_ratio MUST be exactly one of: "1:1", "1:4", "2:3", "3:2", "3:4", "4:1", "4:3", "4:5", "5:4", "9:16", "16:9", "21:9".
  • figure_id MUST be a semantically meaningful snake_case identifier (e.g., fig_framework_overview, fig_ablation_study_parameter_sensitivity).
  • figure_id MUST NOT contain the word "Figure".

Read the full file on GitHub · 114 lines

Files

What ships with it

6 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.

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. 6d ago First seen · 114 lines · 99 tokens per session scan A 685512f9d7d6

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outline-agent is a skill published in the GitHub repository raja21068/AutoResearch (2 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 99 tokens to every session and 1,364 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to outline-agent, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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