match-style

match-style is a skill for Claude Code from ShaishavMaisuria/research-paper-lifecycle-skills. It costs 204 tokens per session (1,413 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A writing editor that adjusts a draft to match a supplied author's voice, publication venue, or combination of both.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to align terminology, rhythm, and structure across a draft or multiple authors' sections. It changes style, not the substance, and cannot guarantee acceptance.
Why use it?
It helps a paper sound consistent with earlier work or with the style readers expect from a target venue.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the paper-writing plugin — 7 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to align terminology, rhythm, and structure across a draft or multiple authors' sections. It changes style, not the substance, and cannot guarantee acceptance.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/shaishavmaisuria/research-paper-lifecycle-skills/match-style
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 ShaishavMaisuria/research-paper-lifecycle-skills --skill match-style
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ShaishavMaisuria/research-paper-lifecycle-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install paper-writing, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 7 skills.

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Per session 204 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,413 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 $0.00204 $0.01413
Opus 5 $0.00102 $0.00707
Sonnet 5 $0.00041 $0.00283
Haiku 4.5 $0.00020 $0.00141

Measured 12d ago against content hash e49d18af91d8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

match-style 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/style_signature.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/match-style/SKILL.md · 60 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 60 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Match Style

Aligns a draft to a target voice without touching its substance. Three modes, combinable:

  • author voice — match the researcher's own prior papers (terminology, rhythm, hedging, structure) so a new draft reads as theirs.
  • venue register — match the published style of the target venue (via study-exemplars).
  • co-author merge — make a multi-author draft read in one consistent voice instead of a patchwork.

This is part of the acceptance-maximizing toolkit, alongside polish-prose (de-AI-ify + tighten), benchmark-paper (venue-fit score), simulate-reviewers (content critique), and preflight-check (desk-reject defects). Be honest with the user: no rewrite guarantees acceptance. What style alignment buys is consistency, venue fit, and readability — real but bounded contributors to how a paper is received.

When to use vs. polish-prose

  • polish-prose fixes objective problems (AI tells, wordiness, inconsistent terms) against general/venue norms.
  • match-style aligns to a specific target voice you provide (your corpus and/or venue exemplars). Run polish-prose first to clean, then match-style to align.

Inputs

  • The draft: .tex / .md / text.
  • For author voice: paths to the author's own prior papers (.tex/.pdf/.txt). These must be the author's own work — see Guardrails.
  • For venue register: the target venue id → venues/ profile → study-exemplars corpus.
  • Optional: a glossary of preferred terms/acronyms.

Process

  1. Build the style signature of the target.
    • Author voice: run python3 scripts/style_signature.py --corpus <files...> --out author.json. It measures terminology frequency, mean/var sentence length, hedging density, connective usage (however/moreover/thus…), passive-voice rate, citation density, section-heading vocabulary.
    • Venue register: run the same over the study-exemplars corpus (open-access only) → venue.json.
  2. Profile the draft the same way: python3 scripts/style_signature.py --corpus <draft> --out draft.json.
  3. Diff draft vs target(s): python3 scripts/style_signature.py --compare draft.json --against author.json [venue.json] --out style-gap.md. This reports where the draft deviates (e.g. "you use 'we propose' 0×; your prior papers average 3×", "hedging 2× higher than venue exemplars").
  4. Surface conflicts. When author voice and venue register disagree (e.g. your habitual first-person vs a venue that prefers passive), present the trade-off — do not silently pick one.
  5. Align the draft section by section, guided by style-gap.md and the rewrite norms in references/style-dimensions.md. Preserve every number, result, claim, and citation verbatim. Keep a change log.
  6. Verify nothing substantive moved: re-run verify-citations if references were near edits; diff claims/numbers before/after.

Read the full file on GitHub · 60 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 · 60 lines · 204 tokens per session scan A e49d18af91d8

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match-style 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 204 tokens to every session and 1,413 once invoked, about $0.0010 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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