manuscript-formatter

manuscript-formatter is a skill for Claude Code from ur-grue/autopunk-media-skills. It costs 51 tokens per session (1,955 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A formatting helper that reshapes a manuscript or article to match a publication’s required structure and style without changing its content.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to prepare academic papers, magazine features, articles, and other manuscripts for an editor or publication.
Why use it?
It resolves submission-format problems such as heading structure, citations, paragraph spacing, pull quotes, and front matter.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the autopunk-media-skills plugin — 187 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to prepare academic papers, magazine features, articles, and other manuscripts for an editor or publication.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ur-grue/autopunk-media-skills/manuscript-formatter
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 ur-grue/autopunk-media-skills --skill manuscript-formatter
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ur-grue/autopunk-media-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install autopunk-media-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 187 skills.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 51 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,955 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00051 $0.01955
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.00978
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00391
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00196

Measured 8d ago against content hash d1fac3a0e944, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

manuscript-formatter 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/production-support/formatting/manuscript-formatter/SKILL.md · 101 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 101 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Manuscript Formatter

What This Skill Does

Reformats a manuscript, article, or long-form text to match a specific publication's structural and style requirements — adjusting headings, paragraph spacing, citation format, pull-quote placement, and front matter without altering the content itself.

When To Use This Skill

  • You are submitting an article to a publication that requires a specific manuscript format and your draft does not match
  • You need to convert a piece written in one style (e.g., academic) to another (e.g., magazine feature) for a different outlet
  • You are preparing a final manuscript for an editor and need to ensure it meets the house format before submission
  • You have a raw draft that needs structural formatting — section breaks, subheadings, front matter — before it can be reviewed

What You Need To Provide

Required: The full text to reformat; the target format or style guide (e.g., "AP style feature," "Chicago Manual academic article," "standard magazine submission format," or a specific publication's submission guidelines).

Optional: The publication's specific formatting requirements if they differ from a standard style guide (paragraph indent vs. block paragraphs, heading hierarchy, footnote vs. endnote, citation style); whether to add or restructure subheadings; word count target (if the reformatted version must fit a specific length); front matter requirements (author name, date, word count header, abstract, keywords); any elements that must be preserved exactly as-is (e.g., specific formatting of data tables or block quotes).

How the Assistant Approaches This

  1. Reads the full text and identifies its current structure. Maps the existing formatting: heading levels, paragraph style, citation format, block quote treatment, list formatting, and any front matter. Identifies what needs to change to match the target format and what can remain as-is.

  2. Applies the target format's structural rules. Adjusts heading hierarchy (H1/H2/H3), paragraph spacing and indentation, block quote formatting, list style (bulleted vs. numbered), and section break conventions. For academic-to-journalistic conversions, removes abstracts and reorganizes front matter; for journalistic-to-academic, adds structured sections and formal citation format.

Read the full file on GitHub · 101 lines

Files

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.

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 · 101 lines · 51 tokens per session scan A d1fac3a0e944

Subscribe to this mod's changes

manuscript-formatter is a skill published in the GitHub repository ur-grue/autopunk-media-skills (32 stars, last pushed 12d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 51 tokens to every session and 1,955 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 2026-09-04.

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