academic-email

academic-email is a skill for Claude Code from TaewoooPark/MagLab. It costs 62 tokens per session (872 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A writing workflow for drafting professional academic emails of up to 200 words. It covers collaboration, questions, interviews, recommendations, and applications.

In plain words
What is it for?
Creating an email with a subject line and a follow-up action for a researcher. It can use related papers as optional context.
Why use it?
It provides a structured draft while leaving names, dates, affiliations, and claims for human review instead of sending messages automatically.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Good fit Creating an email with a subject line and a follow-up action for a researcher. It can use related papers as optional context.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/taewooopark/maglab/academic-email
Install

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Any agent
npx skills add TaewoooPark/MagLab --skill academic-email
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/TaewoooPark/MagLab

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 62 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 872 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 $0.00062 $0.00872
Opus 5 $0.00031 $0.00436
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00174
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00087

Measured 10d ago against content hash c6da8051c7e2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

academic-email 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 10d 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-email/SKILL.md · 102 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 102 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

academic-email — Professional academic email skill

Overview

This skill drafts a ≤200 word professional academic email, aligned with MagLab research integrity principles (§3.3) and the Appendix C bundle comms workflow.

Core principles:

  • Body must be ≤200 words.
  • Output includes a subject line on the first line and a follow-up action at the end.
  • The AI does not invent results, claims, or institutional affiliations.
  • All personalisation fields (sender name, greeting, follow-up date) are marked [FILL].
  • Output always begins with HUMAN REVIEW REQUIRED.
  • Auto-send is prohibited — the draft is returned to the researcher for review and manual sending.

Agent: maglab.authoring.comms.academic_email.AcademicEmailAgent CLI command: maglab comms email

Inputs

Key Type Required Description
email_type str Yes One of: collaboration | question | interview | recommendation | application
recipient str Yes Recipient's name or title (e.g. "Professor Smith")
topic str Yes Main purpose of the email
related_papers list[str] No Relevant papers by the author or recipient

Email types

Type Intent
collaboration Express interest in a research collaboration on a shared topic
question Ask a specific technical or scientific question politely
interview Request a meeting or informational interview
recommendation Request a letter of recommendation with context
application Express interest in a position, program, or grant

Output

A CommsResult with:

  • text: Email draft (≤200 words) starting with HUMAN REVIEW REQUIRED.
  • fill_markers: List of [FILL] positions requiring author personalisation.
  • word_count: Approximate word count (logged as a warning if >200).

Email structure

HUMAN REVIEW REQUIRED

Subject: [concise subject line]

[FILL: Dear Professor / Dr. [FILL: name],]

[Email body — ≤200 words, based on email_type instruction]

Follow-up: [FILL: suggested date or action]

Best regards,
[FILL: Sender name, affiliation]

Read the full file on GitHub · 102 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. 10d ago First seen · 102 lines · 62 tokens per session scan A c6da8051c7e2

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academic-email is a skill published in the GitHub repository TaewoooPark/MagLab (11 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 62 tokens to every session and 872 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 2026-08-30.

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