coauthor-engine

coauthor-engine is a skill for Claude Code from TobiasBlask/open-paper-machine. It costs 52 tokens per session (1,605 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for managing who did what on a multi-author research paper. It uses CRediT, a standard list of research contribution roles, and records human and AI work.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to define author responsibilities, track contributions, assign roles, and produce an author-contribution statement.
Why use it?
It prevents unclear or disputed authorship responsibilities and prepares transparent contribution information for publication.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the open-academic-paper-machine plugin — 33 skills, 21 commands, 4 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to define author responsibilities, track contributions, assign roles, and produce an author-contribution statement.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/tobiasblask/open-paper-machine/coauthor-engine
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 TobiasBlask/open-paper-machine --skill coauthor-engine
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/TobiasBlask/open-paper-machine

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install open-academic-paper-machine, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 33 skills, 21 commands, 4 agents.

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README.md
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Per session 52 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,605 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 $0.00052 $0.01605
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.00803
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00321
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00161

Measured 8d ago against content hash ca83c0a15896, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

coauthor-engine 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.

skills/coauthor-engine/SKILL.md · 180 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 180 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Orchestration Log: When this skill is activated, append a log entry to outputs/orchestration_log.md:

### Skill Activation: Co-Author Engine
**Timestamp:** [current date/time]
**Actor:** AI Agent (coauthor-engine)
**Input:** [N] authors, task: [contribution tracking / responsibility assignment / CRediT statement]
**Output:** author_contributions.md saved

Co-Author Engine

Core Principle

Modern academic publishing increasingly requires transparent documentation of who did what. The CRediT (Contributor Roles Taxonomy) system standardizes this. For AI-assisted papers, documenting the human-AI division of labor is not optional — it's becoming a requirement at major venues.

When to Activate

  • User says "author contributions", "CRediT statement", "who did what"
  • User says "add co-author", "assign responsibilities", "contribution tracking"
  • Before submission (submission-engine may trigger this)
  • When documenting AI involvement in the research process

Step 1: DEFINE Author Roster

Author Information Template

## Authors

| # | Name | Affiliation | Role | ORCID | Corresponding |
|---|------|-------------|------|-------|--------------|
| 1 | [Name] | [University/Org] | [Senior/Junior/PI] | [ORCID] | [Yes/No] |
| 2 | [Name] | [University/Org] | [Senior/Junior] | [ORCID] | [No] |
| 3 | AI Agent (Claude) | Anthropic | AI Assistant | N/A | No |

Author Order Conventions

  • IS/Business conventions: First author did most work, last author is senior/PI
  • CS conventions: First author did most work, alphabetical otherwise or by contribution
  • Note: If AI is listed, typically in acknowledgments, not as author (venue-dependent)

Step 2: ASSIGN CRediT Roles

CRediT Taxonomy (14 Roles)

For each author (including AI), indicate contribution level:

# CRediT Role Definition Author 1 Author 2 AI Agent
1 Conceptualization Ideas, formulation of research goals Lead Supporting
2 Data curation Managing, annotating, maintaining data Lead Supporting
3 Formal analysis Statistical, mathematical, computational analysis Supporting Lead
4 Funding acquisition Obtaining financial support Lead
5 Investigation Conducting the research, data collection Lead Supporting Supporting
6 Methodology Development or design of methodology Lead Supporting Supporting
7 Project administration Managing and coordinating the project Lead
8 Resources Provision of study materials, tools, computing Lead
9 Software Programming, implementation, code Lead
10 Supervision Oversight and leadership responsibility Lead
11 Validation Verification and replication of results Lead Supporting Supporting
12 Visualization Creating figures, diagrams, plots Supporting Lead
13 Writing — original draft Creating the initial manuscript Supporting Lead
14 Writing — review & editing Critical review, commentary, revision Lead Lead Supporting

Read the full file on GitHub · 180 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. 8d ago First seen · 180 lines · 52 tokens per session scan A ca83c0a15896

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coauthor-engine is a skill published in the GitHub repository TobiasBlask/open-paper-machine (18 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 52 tokens to every session and 1,605 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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