Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to TenureAI/PhD-Zero. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/TenureAI/PhD-Zero/main/.agents/skills/paper-writing/SKILL.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/TenureAI/PhD-ZeroWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/tenureai/phd-zero/paper-writing)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/tenureai/phd-zero/paper-writing"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/tenureai/phd-zero/paper-writing/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/tenureai/phd-zero/paper-writing"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/tenureai/phd-zero/paper-writing.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00096 | $0.00746 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00038 | $0.00298 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00019 | $0.00149 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00010 | $0.00075 |
Grade A, and why
paper-writing 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 1mo 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 95 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Paper Writing
Mission
Provide a section-aware paper-writing workflow that is:
- evidence-first
- progressively disclosed
- LaTeX- and structure-friendly
- optimized for CS and AI papers
Do not load all writing guidance at once. Start here, then open only the reference file needed for the current section.
Activation Gate
Activate this skill only when the user explicitly asks for paper-writing output.
Use this skill for:
- drafting a paper or a named paper section
- revising existing paper prose
- writing rebuttal text
- turning existing claims, evidence, and results into paper-ready prose
Do not use this skill for:
- topic scoping
- literature investigation without a writing deliverable
- feasibility analysis
- experiment design
- experiment execution
- deciding whether a project is paper-worthy
Default Workflow
- identify paper type and draft stage
- load
references/workflow.md - load only the section file needed right now
- if related-work style mining is needed, load
references/arxiv-source-workflow.md - use
scripts/fetch_arxiv_source.pyto inspect exemplar paper sources - write only what is supported by actual evidence, experiments, and citations
Loading Map
Open these references on demand:
references/source-index.md- external sources and what each one informs
references/workflow.md- overall writing order, collaboration rules, and section contracts
references/abstract.md- abstract structure and compression rules
references/introduction.md- problem framing, gap, contributions, and section logic
references/related-work.md- literature grouping, synthesis, comparison writing, and citation density
references/arxiv-source-workflow.md- how to download and inspect arXiv LaTeX sources
references/method.md- method narrative, notation, pipeline order, and algorithm exposition
references/architecture-figures.md- architecture drawing heuristics and code-based tooling
references/experiments.md- evaluation logic, ablations, robustness, and error analysis
references/tables-and-layout.md
- result tables, layout, appendix splitting, and figure-table coordination
What ships with it
12 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.
- agents/openai.yaml 258 B
- references/abstract.md 918 B
- references/architecture-figures.md 1.7 KB
- references/arxiv-source-workflow.md 1.2 KB
- references/experiments.md 1.3 KB
- references/introduction.md 1.1 KB
- references/method.md 1.4 KB
- references/related-work.md 1.4 KB
- references/source-index.md 1.6 KB
- references/tables-and-layout.md 1.1 KB
- references/workflow.md 1.5 KB
- scripts/fetch_arxiv_source.py 2.2 KB runs code
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.
- 1mo ago First seen · 95 lines · 96 tokens per session scan A 7372ca4044cd
paper-writing is a skill published in the GitHub repository TenureAI/PhD-Zero (53 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 96 tokens to every session and 746 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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