study-exemplars

study-exemplars is a skill for Claude Code from ShaishavMaisuria/research-paper-lifecycle-skills. It costs 204 tokens per session (2,927 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A research tool that studies successful papers from a chosen publication venue and summarizes their writing and experiment patterns.

In plain words
What is it for?
It creates a style-and-structure brief based on best-paper and highly cited examples, without reproducing their text.
Why use it?
Authors submitting to an unfamiliar venue may not know how its strongest papers organize sections, explain contributions, or present evidence.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the paper-search plugin — 4 skills shipped together

Good fit It creates a style-and-structure brief based on best-paper and highly cited examples, without reproducing their text.

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

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install paper-search, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 4 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 2,927 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 $0.02927
Opus 5 $0.00102 $0.01463
Sonnet 5 $0.00041 $0.00585
Haiku 4.5 $0.00020 $0.00293

Measured 12d ago against content hash 8ea5c70f34cd, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

study-exemplars 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 4 executable files (scripts/build_exemplar_bundle.py, scripts/lookup_exemplar.py, scripts/polite_http.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/study-exemplars/SKILL.md · 220 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 220 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Study Exemplars

Turns a target venue's strongest papers — best-paper awardees and top-cited work — into an original style-and-structure brief the user can write against: how winning papers at this venue architect their sections, frame contributions, design evaluations, and use figures and tables. Papers are fetched on demand from legal open-access sources and processed transiently. The deliverable contains metadata and original analysis only — never paper text. Sits between select-venue/parse-cfp (choosing the target) and the writing skills (write-abstract, draft-related-work, tailor-to-venue).

When to use

  • "What do best papers at look like?" / "analyze the award winners"
  • "Show me the most-cited papers and how they're structured"
  • "I'm submitting to for the first time — how do successful papers there frame contributions / run evaluations / lay out sections?"
  • Before drafting: build a venue style brief that other writing skills consume
  • NOT for finding papers on a topic (find-papers) or reviewing the literature for content (literature-review) — this skill studies form

Inputs

  • A target venue, ideally with a profile venues/conferences/<id>.yml (schema: venues/schema.yml); otherwise resolve aliases per references/finding-exemplars.md
  • Optional: year window (default: the last 3–4 completed proceedings years), exemplar count (default 5–8), the user's paper type (research / short / demo) so analysis targets the right track
  • CONTACT_EMAIL env var — required by every script (polite-pool identity); scripts prompt interactively if unset, or exit nonzero with instructions
  • Optional: S2_API_KEY env var for reliable Semantic Scholar access

Process

1. Resolve the venue and lock the target

  • Read the venue profile if one exists. Take aliases.s2_venue and aliases.dblp_key from its aliases: block; note the track, page limit, and template the user will write for.
  • Re-verify critical facts against the live cfp_url before the user relies on them — the brief will state format conventions (page budget, template, required sections), and profiles go stale. If the profile's verified.date is older than the current CFP cycle, fetch the CFP and reconcile first.
  • No profile? Resolve aliases via the find-papers skill's venue-aliases table or live DBLP venue search before any query — a wrong S2 venue string silently returns zero papers.

Read the full file on GitHub · 220 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. 12d ago First seen · 220 lines · 204 tokens per session scan A 8ea5c70f34cd

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study-exemplars 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 2,927 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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