ieee-latex

ieee-latex is a skill for Claude Code from TenWalk/ieee-skills. It costs 161 tokens per session (847 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A build and troubleshooting guide for IEEEtran, the LaTeX template used by many IEEE research journals. It covers citations, references, figures, tables, equations, algorithms, and final PDF checks.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when preparing or repairing manuscripts for journals such as JSAC, TWC, TCOM, WCL, and CL. It helps compile the paper, diagnose logs, fix errors, and check the finished PDF.
Why use it?
It helps find the real cause of failed builds, missing references, layout warnings, and submission-format problems without hiding them.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the ieee-skills plugin — 11 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it when preparing or repairing manuscripts for journals such as JSAC, TWC, TCOM, WCL, and CL. It helps compile the paper, diagnose logs, fix errors, and check the finished PDF.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/tenwalk/ieee-skills/ieee-latex
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 TenWalk/ieee-skills --skill ieee-latex
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/TenWalk/ieee-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install ieee-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 11 skills.

Wrote 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.

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README.md
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Per session 161 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 847 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 $0.00161 $0.00847
Opus 5 $0.00081 $0.00424
Sonnet 5 $0.00032 $0.00169
Haiku 4.5 $0.00016 $0.00085

Measured 11d ago against content hash 893781d57141, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ieee-latex 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 11d 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.

ieee-skills-claude/skills/ieee-latex/SKILL.md · 62 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 62 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

IEEEtran LaTeX Build and Diagnosis

Use this skill to compile and repair IEEE journal manuscripts while preserving IEEEtran conventions. It complements generic LaTeX compilation skills by focusing on IEEE-specific structure, bibliography, floats, captions, and submission checks.

Core stance

  • Compile before guessing. Read the .log, .blg, and warnings; fix the first real error before cosmetic warnings.
  • Use IEEEtran conventions. Do not "fix" by switching classes, bibliography styles, caption packages, or section styles away from IEEE unless the template requires it.
  • Keep source changes minimal. Prefer small fixes to packages/macros over broad template rewrites.
  • Do not hide warnings. Overfull boxes, undefined refs, missing fonts, and BibTeX failures need diagnosis, not suppression.
  • Check final PDF surface. A successful compile is not enough if figures are unreadable, references are ??, or captions violate IEEE style.

When to open extra files

File Open when
references/build-diagnosis.md Running compile commands, reading .log/.blg, fixing undefined refs/citations, overfull boxes, package conflicts, and BibTeX problems
references/ieeetran-checklist.md Auditing IEEEtran class options, abstract/Index Terms, floats/captions, equations, references, biographies, WCL/CL page constraints, and submission readiness

Use ieee-citation for reference formatting, ieee-figure for figure generation, and ieee-letter for WCL/CL page strategy.

Workflow

  1. Locate the root file and build system: main.tex, latexmkrc, Makefile, arara, or IDE log.
  2. Run or inspect the build with an IEEE-safe sequence: LaTeX -> BibTeX -> LaTeX -> LaTeX, or latexmk when configured.
  3. Classify failures: fatal compile error, bibliography failure, undefined references, float problems, overfull boxes, missing fonts/figures, or page-limit issue.
  4. Patch minimally: fix paths, labels, citations, packages, fragile macros, caption syntax, and bibliography style without rewriting the manuscript.
  5. Rebuild and verify: no fatal errors; no unresolved ??; bibliography generated; PDF opens; critical warnings explained.
  6. Run IEEE-specific checks: documentclass, Index Terms, section headings, figure/table captions, equation numbering, appendices, biographies, page budget, and vector figures.

Read the full file on GitHub · 62 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 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. 11d ago First seen · 62 lines · 161 tokens per session scan A 893781d57141

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ieee-latex is a skill published in the GitHub repository TenWalk/ieee-skills (5 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 161 tokens to every session and 847 once invoked, about $0.0008 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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