paper-section-playbook

paper-section-playbook is a skill for Codex from sidiangongyuan/codex-skills-library. It costs 64 tokens per session (1,181 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A writing guide for planning or reorganising sections of computer-vision, 3D-perception, and self-driving research papers. It covers parts such as the abstract, introduction, related work, method, experiments, and conclusion.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when outlining or restructuring a paper section, deciding what each paragraph should contain, or responding to reviewer concerns about motivation and organisation.
Why use it?
It helps turn a research idea into a clear section structure, so each paragraph has a defined job and the paper's argument is easier to follow.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present. Also seen: $skill-name invocation.

Good fit Use it when outlining or restructuring a paper section, deciding what each paragraph should contain, or responding to reviewer concerns about motivation and organisation.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/sidiangongyuan/codex-skills-library/paper-section-playbook
Install

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Any agent
npx skills add sidiangongyuan/codex-skills-library --skill paper-section-playbook
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sidiangongyuan/codex-skills-library

Made for: Codex.

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Per session 64 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,181 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 $0.00064 $0.01181
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.00590
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00236
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00118

Measured 4d ago against content hash 847e42294659, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

paper-section-playbook 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 4d 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/paper-section-playbook/SKILL.md · 91 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 91 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Paper Section Playbook

Scope and complement

This skill answers "how should this section be structured and what should each paragraph do?" for papers in CV, 3D perception, and autonomous driving venues (CVPR / ICCV / ECCV / NeurIPS / CoRL).

For sentence-level prose polish (word choice, punctuation, terminology consistency, em-dash rules, etc.), defer to paper-refinement-skills instead. Both skills may be active at once; this one operates at the section and paragraph level, the other at the sentence level.

When to load this skill

  • The user is planning or restructuring a paper section, not just polishing prose.
  • The user asks "how do I write the Intro / Method / Experiments / etc."
  • The user is rebutting a reviewer comment about section structure, motivation, or framing.
  • The user wants exemplar-based guidance ("how do top papers do X").

Entry mode and settled decisions

  • For a new section or a requested restructuring, use the structural routing below.
  • For an approved draft's result refresh, caption correction, or local clarity fix, reuse its established story and section roles. Inspect only the relevant evidence and connected passages; do not repeat elicitation or a full exemplar search.
  • A new claim or changed evidence boundary warrants a focused structural review, not automatic redesign of every section. Ask only when the unresolved choice materially changes the paper's contribution or the user's requested scope.
  • A missing experiment is a limitation or a draft placeholder, not authorization to train a model. Continue supported writing without inventing missing evidence.

Routing

  1. Identify which section the user is working on.
  2. Read the matching file under sections/ for the structural playbook (paragraph functions, decision tree, common reviewer red flags).
  3. If the user is choosing between writing styles, consult decision-trees/paper-type-router.md to identify their paper type (new method / new task / new analysis / system / dataset), then apply the corresponding branch in the section file.
  4. For Related Work, method motivation, experiment framing, or exemplar-based guidance, use $research-evidence when citation support or top-venue precedent is uncertain. Prefer CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, ICLR, NeurIPS/NIPS, and ICML before secondary autonomous-driving or robotics venues unless the topic requires them.
  5. Use the worked skeletons and templates in the relevant section file when the user wants concrete patterns.
  6. After drafting, run the section file's self-review checklist and checklists/reviewer-redflags.md for the relevant section.

Read the full file on GitHub · 91 lines

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. 4d ago Changed · +17 lines 847e42294659
  2. 11d ago First seen · 74 lines · 64 tokens per session scan A b41e52edfdb0

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paper-section-playbook is a skill published in the GitHub repository sidiangongyuan/codex-skills-library (8 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 64 tokens to every session and 1,181 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 2026-08-31.

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