paper-outline

paper-outline is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from ResearAI/DeepScientist. It costs 53 tokens per session (2,220 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A planning skill for turning experiment evidence into a research-paper outline. It separates the paper's reader-facing story from detailed records of runs, settings, files, and reproducibility information.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before writing, revising, or checking a research-paper outline. It helps define the paper idea, claims, method, evaluation plan, analysis plan, limits, and evidence boundaries.
Why use it?
It prevents an outline from becoming a dump of experiment logs or results. It helps keep claims tied to evidence and makes unsupported conclusions explicit.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it before writing, revising, or checking a research-paper outline. It helps define the paper idea, claims, method, evaluation plan, analysis plan, limits, and evidence boundaries.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/researai/deepscientist/paper-outline
About the project

DeepScientist is a local research studio that manages the cycle from baseline experiments through research findings and paper-ready outputs. Researchers use it to organize autonomous scientific investigations, review progress, and take control when needed. The catalogue add-ons provide workflows and agent integrations for running research projects with it.

ResearAI/DeepScientist · 3,323 stars · on GitHub

Install

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.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 53 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,220 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00053 $0.02220
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.01110
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00444
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00222

Measured 11d ago against content hash 79ae0ec49d75, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

paper-outline 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 11d 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.

src/skills/paper-outline/SKILL.md · 228 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 228 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Paper Outline

Use this before write when the outline feels like a run log, result dump, engineering note, or group-meeting report instead of a paper plan.

One-Sentence Summary

Keep one selected outline, but split two views:

  • paper_view: what the paper will say to readers.
  • evidence_view: where the exact runs, paths, rows, settings, and reproducibility details live.

The paper should be faithful to the actual evidence, but it should not repeat the agent workflow.

Basic Workflow

  1. Read the current paper state. Use artifact.get_paper_contract(detail='full'), artifact.list_paper_outlines(...), and then artifact.validate_academic_outline(detail='full') if an outline exists.
  2. Find the one-sentence paper idea. Ask: "What should a researcher remember after reading this paper?" This is not a metric row and not an implementation setting.
  3. Separate facts from interpretation. Facts are measured results. Interpretations are the careful academic lesson supported by those facts. Unsupported claims go into "must not claim."
  4. Write or repair paper_view. Fill the paper idea, problem/gap/method/result/limit, 1-3 scoped claims, method intuition, evaluation plan, and 4-8 useful analysis jobs.
  5. Keep engineering details out of the story. Put ports, worktrees, batch shorthand, route decisions, user requests, artifact ids, exact file paths, and local commands into evidence_view or appendix-only reproducibility fields.
  6. Validate and compile. Run artifact.validate_academic_outline(detail='full'). If it passes, run artifact.compile_outline_to_writing_plan(detail='full').

What Good Means

A good outline does three things:

  • It has a point: one clear claim or lesson, not a list of what the agent did.
  • It is honest: every claim is tied to durable evidence, and limits are explicit.
  • It is useful to a reader: the method and analyses teach something beyond "this setup got a number."

Strong papers often start from simple code but make a useful idea legible. Residual connections are more than a code shortcut; the paper teaches how to make depth trainable. Attention is more than a module; the paper teaches how to remove a bottleneck. Do the same only when the quest evidence supports that kind of interpretation.

Read the full file on GitHub · 228 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 11d ago First seen · 228 lines · 53 tokens per session scan A 79ae0ec49d75

Subscribe to this mod's changes

paper-outline is a skill published in the GitHub repository ResearAI/DeepScientist (3,323 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 53 tokens to every session and 2,220 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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