Getting it into your agent
There is no command for this one: it runs only inside a plugin, and the catalogue could not identify which plugin ships it. The source is linked below.
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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/thtskaran/claude-skills/academic-paper)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/thtskaran/claude-skills/academic-paper"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/thtskaran/claude-skills/academic-paper.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" 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 | $0.00191 | $0.05746 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00096 | $0.02873 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00038 | $0.01149 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00019 | $0.00575 |
Grade A, and why
academic-paper 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 8d 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 — 558 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Academic Paper Skill
Generate publication-ready academic research papers as professionally formatted PDFs. This skill covers the full pipeline: gathering inputs → writing/rewriting → figure creation → PDF formatting with reportlab → submission preparation for SSRN/arXiv.
Workflow Decision Tree
When the user triggers this skill, figure out where they are:
User has... → Start at...
─────────────────────────────────────────────
A topic/idea only → Stage 1 (Gather) → full pipeline
Bullet points/notes → Stage 2 (Structure) → write → format
A markdown/text draft → Stage 3 (Write/Rewrite) → format
A finished draft → Stage 5 (Format as PDF)
A PDF, needs submission → Stage 6 (Submission Prep)
Always ask what they have and what they need. Don't assume full pipeline.
Stage 1: Gather Inputs
Collect these before ANY writing:
Required:
- Author full name, email, affiliation (company name or "Independent Researcher" — both valid)
- Paper type: preprint, position paper, empirical study, literature synthesis, technical report
- Existing content: draft file, notes, or topic description
- Target venue: SSRN, arXiv, specific journal, or general
Ask about:
- Do they have citations/references already, or do we need to find them?
- Do they have figures/diagrams, or should we create them?
- Any page limits or formatting constraints from the venue?
- Any specific sections they want or don't want?
If user provides a markdown/text draft:
- Read the entire draft before doing anything
- Count all citations — you'll need to verify none get lost during rewriting
- Map the section structure
- Identify: What's the thesis? What evidence supports it? What's missing?
Stage 2: Structure
Standard Paper Architecture
Title + Abstract (≤300 words) + Keywords (8-12)
1. Introduction → Hook → Gap → Thesis → Contribution list
2. Background/Related → Only what the reader needs; argue, don't survey
3-5. Core sections → The actual contribution (varies by paper type)
6. Discussion → Implications, limitations, future work
7. Conclusion → Mirror intro, restate contributions concretely
References → Hanging indent, consistent format
Appendices (optional) → Supporting tables, proofs, supplementary data
What ships with it
1 file 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.
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.
- 8d ago First seen · 558 lines · 191 tokens per session scan A 3c117cf2115b
academic-paper is a skill published in the GitHub repository thtskaran/claude-skills (18 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 191 tokens to every session and 5,746 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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