academic-paper-polish

academic-paper-polish is a skill for Codex from Rylaispirit/rylai-codex-hermes-skills. It costs 31 tokens per session (478 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An editing workflow for improving academic and research papers while keeping their scientific meaning, evidence, citations, and technical terms unchanged.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to revise paragraphs, improve the order of an argument, strengthen transitions, shorten writing, adjust cautious wording, or flag claims that need evidence.
Why use it?
It helps make a research draft clearer and better organized without adding unsupported claims or sources.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions Claude Code; mentions Codex.

Good fit Use it to revise paragraphs, improve the order of an argument, strengthen transitions, shorten writing, adjust cautious wording, or flag claims that need evidence.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/rylaispirit/rylai-codex-hermes-skills/academic-paper-polish
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 Rylaispirit/rylai-codex-hermes-skills --skill academic-paper-polish
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Rylaispirit/rylai-codex-hermes-skills

Made for: Codex.

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Per session 31 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 478 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 $0.00031 $0.00478
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00239
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00096
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00048

Measured 13d ago against content hash 48169a6829ef, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

academic-paper-polish 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 13d 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.

skills/academic-paper-polish/SKILL.md · 51 lines

What it actually says

Rylai Codex-Hermes-Claude Edition | Original portable workflow by Rylai

Runtime Compatibility

  • Codex: install under ~/.agents/skills/academic-paper-polish.
  • Hermes: install under ~/.hermes/skills/academic-paper-polish or expose the bundle through skills.external_dirs.
  • Claude Code: install under ~/.claude/skills/academic-paper-polish or <project>/.claude/skills/academic-paper-polish.
  • Claude.ai and Cowork: upload and enable the matching per-skill ZIP.
  • Resolve bundled files relative to this skill directory; do not depend on paths from another machine.
  • Check tools, packages, credentials, network access, and runtime capabilities before execution.

Academic Paper Polish

Improve an academic draft without changing its scientific meaning.

Workflow

  1. Identify the field, venue, audience, manuscript section, and requested level of editing.
  2. Preserve claims, equations, variable names, citations, and technical terminology.
  3. Improve argument order, paragraph logic, transitions, concision, and hedging.
  4. Flag claims that need evidence instead of inventing sources.
  5. Return either tracked suggestions, a revised passage, or both, according to the request.
  6. Perform a final consistency check for abbreviations, tense, terminology, figure references, and citation style.

Bundled References

  • references/section-phrases.md: section-specific rhetorical patterns.
  • references/vocabulary.md: precise academic wording and weak-phrase replacements.
  • references/ai-polish.md: reusable editing prompts and verification passes.

Boundaries

  • Do not fabricate experiments, results, references, reviewer comments, or statistical significance.
  • Distinguish language polishing from substantive scientific review.
  • Keep author voice when the user supplies a style sample.
Files

What ships with it

4 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. 13d ago First seen · 51 lines · 31 tokens per session scan A 48169a6829ef

Subscribe to this mod's changes

academic-paper-polish is a skill published in the GitHub repository Rylaispirit/rylai-codex-hermes-skills (55 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 31 tokens to every session and 478 once invoked, about $0.0002 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.