science-research-writing

science-research-writing is a skill for Codex from Yila-AI/awesome-research-skills. It costs 54 tokens per session (1,578 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guided writing aid for empirical research papers, meaning papers based on collected observations, experiments, or data. It works from the researcher’s own materials and covers standard paper sections.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan, draft, revise, or audit sections such as the Introduction, Methods, Results, Discussion, Abstract, and title. It can also adapt guidance to a target journal when relevant papers are supplied.
Why use it?
It helps turn source material into a draft or revision without inventing results or weakening the evidence. It also helps check whether claims, citations, and certainty match the available support.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present.

Good fit Use it to plan, draft, revise, or audit sections such as the Introduction, Methods, Results, Discussion, Abstract, and title. It can also adapt guidance to a target journal when relevant papers are supplied.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/yila-ai/awesome-research-skills/science-research-writing
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add Yila-AI/awesome-research-skills --skill science-research-writing
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Yila-AI/awesome-research-skills

Made for: Codex.

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Per session 54 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,578 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 warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

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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 $0.00054 $0.01578
Opus 5 $0.00027 $0.00789
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00316
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00158

Measured 7d ago against content hash 6fcd871bcaa3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

science-research-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 7d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (scripts/check_draft_invariants.py, scripts/validate_writing_model.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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/science-research-writing/SKILL.md · 133 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 133 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Science Research Writing

Turn the author's research materials into the next useful manuscript deliverable. Guide the writing process without replacing scientific judgment or inventing intellectual content.

Load only what is needed

  • Always read references/input-output-contract.md and references/certainty-and-claim-strength.md.
  • Read references/reverse-engineering-protocol.md when target papers are supplied or the user requests journal adaptation.
  • Read only the relevant section reference: introduction.md, methods.md, results.md, discussion.md, conclusion.md, abstract.md, or title.md.
  • Use assets/section-function-map.md for planning, assets/evidence-ledger.csv for provenance-sensitive drafting, and assets/target-journal-model.json for target-paper modeling.

First response: inspect before asking

Read all supplied materials first. Identify:

  • manuscript stage: idea, research materials, partial draft, or full draft;
  • primary job: lookup, learn, model, plan, draft, revise, or audit;
  • paper section and empirical design when inferable;
  • facts, numbers, citations, technical terms, null findings, limitations, and author judgments that must be protected;
  • the next useful output that can be produced safely now.

Do not ask the user to choose an internal mode. Do not require field, journal, section, or language preferences when a conservative useful result is possible.

If missing information would force an unsupported scientific choice:

  1. deliver every safe and useful part first;
  2. identify the exact gap or conflict;
  3. ask one highest-impact question;
  4. wait before drafting only the blocked content.

If conflicting sources block the entire requested sentence or section, return a diagnosis rather than a provisional scaffold. Do not infer variable roles, direction, reference groups, statistical meaning, table labels, or missing uncertainty from the conflicting numbers.

Route the task

Idea stage

Use plan. Convert the question and intended contribution into a provisional section-function map. Label missing evidence instead of supplying it.

Read the full file on GitHub · 133 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. 7d ago Changed · +1 lines 6fcd871bcaa3
  2. 13d ago First seen · 132 lines · 54 tokens per session scan A 433d83823cc1

Subscribe to this mod's changes

science-research-writing is a skill published in the GitHub repository Yila-AI/awesome-research-skills (119 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 54 tokens to every session and 1,578 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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