draft-survey

draft-survey is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from ShaishavMaisuria/research-paper-lifecycle-skills. It costs 213 tokens per session (1,205 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A research workflow that turns a topic into a ranked list of papers and a two-column literature survey draft suitable for arXiv, a public research-paper repository.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to decide what to read first, learn a research area, or prepare a standalone survey paper. It is different from a literature review focused only on your own paper’s related work.
Why use it?
It reduces the time needed to find important papers, follow citation links, verify references, and organize a broad field of research.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to decide what to read first, learn a research area, or prepare a standalone survey paper. It is different from a literature review focused only on your own paper’s related work.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/shaishavmaisuria/research-paper-lifecycle-skills/draft-survey
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add ShaishavMaisuria/research-paper-lifecycle-skills --skill draft-survey
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ShaishavMaisuria/research-paper-lifecycle-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 213 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,205 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 $0.00213 $0.01205
Opus 5 $0.00106 $0.00602
Sonnet 5 $0.00043 $0.00241
Haiku 4.5 $0.00021 $0.00120

Measured 12d ago against content hash 64e9db25b1cc, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

draft-survey 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 12d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/rank_papers.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.

skills/draft-survey/SKILL.md · 49 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 49 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Draft Survey

Two deliverables from one topic: a ranked reading list (what to read, best first, with a one-line why) and a two-column, arXiv-ready survey draft that synthesizes the area in original prose with verified citations. Composes find-papers, verify-citations, study-exemplars, and draft-related-work.

When to use vs. literature-review

  • literature-review builds the related-work for your own paper — scoped to your contribution.
  • draft-survey produces a standalone survey/review document (a reading list + a publishable 2-column draft) of a whole area. Use it to learn a field fast or to draft a survey paper for arXiv.

Inputs

  • The topic (e.g. "geospatial data conflation"), optionally a sub-scope and a target length (default 5–6 two-column pages).
  • Optional: a venue/format (default: generic two-column article, which compiles on arXiv).

Process

  1. Gather candidates broadly. Run find-papers across DBLP + Crossref + Semantic Scholar + arXiv for the topic and its synonyms; then run its citation-graph expansion so seminal anchors and direct lineages are not missed (a survey that omits the foundational papers is a weak survey).
  2. Rank them. Run python3 scripts/rank_papers.py candidates.json — a composite of normalized citation count, venue tier, recency, and citation-graph centrality (weights documented in references/ranking-criteria.md). Output the ranked reading list: rank, title, authors, year, venue, a citation/impact signal, and a one-line why read this (seminal / survey / SOTA / dataset / contrarian). Keep seminal and recent both represented.
  3. Verify every entry. Route the list through verify-citations so each has a real DOI/arXiv id; drop or flag anything unresolved. A survey with a fabricated reference is disqualifying.
  4. Build a taxonomy. Cluster the verified papers into 3–6 themes/sub-problems (the survey's section structure), each with its lineage (foundational → recent).
  5. Draft the survey, in original prose. Write a two-column .tex: abstract, introduction (scope + why a survey now), one section per theme (synthesize and contrast methods — never copy source sentences), a cross-cutting comparison (a table helps), open problems / future directions, conclusion, and \bibliography. Every claim cites a verified paper. Target the requested length.
  6. Make it arXiv-ready. Ensure it compiles (latexmk), uses a portable two-column class, and the .bib is clean. arXiv has no peer-review desk-reject, but it expects a compilable source and a real abstract; preflight-check can sanity-check length/structure.

Read the full file on GitHub · 49 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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. 12d ago First seen · 49 lines · 213 tokens per session scan A 64e9db25b1cc

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draft-survey is a skill published in the GitHub repository ShaishavMaisuria/research-paper-lifecycle-skills (42 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 213 tokens to every session and 1,205 once invoked, about $0.0011 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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