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paper-from-zero is a skill for Codex from yunshenwuchuxun/latex-paper-skills. It costs 41 tokens per session (1,339 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A starting workflow for turning a fixed research topic into a rigorous academic paper plan and draft handoff.

In plain words
What is it for?
Searching current literature, framing possible contributions, planning evidence, and producing an outline and routing decision for the appropriate paper-writing workflow.
Why use it?
It helps decide whether the work should be a literature review or a study with experiments, while identifying the evidence and contribution before writing begins.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: installed under .codex/. Also seen: reads ~/.codex paths; mentions Codex.

This is yunshenwuchuxun/latex-paper-skills's own configuration. It tells Codex how to work on latex-paper-skills itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything latex-paper-skills configures →

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Per session 41 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,339 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 $0.00041 $0.01339
Opus 5.5 $0.00016 $0.00536
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00008 $0.00268
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00134

Measured 2mo ago against content hash fdc216e0764c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

paper-from-zero 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 2mo ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (scripts/route_and_invoke.py, validate_handoff.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.

.codex/skills/paper-from-zero/SKILL.md · 119 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 119 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Paper-From-Zero

Use this skill when the user already has a topic/domain and wants a structured path from topic -> innovation framing -> evidence plan -> draft-ready paper workflow.

This skill is the front door of the paper stack:

  • It decides whether the work is best treated as a review or empirical paper.
  • It actively searches literature and frames the contribution.
  • It produces the handoff contract used by the downstream writer skill.

When to Use

  • The topic is known, but the paper structure and contribution are not yet pinned down.
  • The user wants the model to search for candidate innovation angles.
  • The user wants a rigorous pre-writing stage before draft generation.

When NOT to Use

  • The user already has a finished review outline and only wants review execution.
  • The user already has an experimental paper contract and only wants draft execution.
  • The task is non-academic or does not need citation-grounded writing.

Outputs

  • brief/topic-brief.md
  • brief/contribution-map.yaml
  • brief/evidence-matrix.csv
  • notes/innovation/ (innovation candidates + evidence links; recommended)
  • plan/outline-contract.md
  • plan/router-decision.md
  • A routing decision to one downstream writer:
    • ../arxiv-paper-writer/SKILL.md for review papers
    • ../empirical-paper-writer/SKILL.md for experimental papers

Workflow

  1. Confirm the topic, constraints, and whether the user already has a preferred innovation.
  2. Actively search literature and build a compact literature map.
  3. Produce 3-5 candidate innovation/contribution framings unless the user already supplied one.
  4. Kill weak framings early: reject ideas that lack a clear gap, evidence path, or falsifiable claim.
  5. Build a contribution map:
    • primary claim
    • secondary claims
    • non-goals / out-of-scope claims
    • risk factors / likely reviewer objections
  6. Build an evidence matrix for every claim:
    • required citations
    • required visuals/tables
    • required experiments (if any)
    • what may remain placeholder vs what must be verified before finalization
  7. Produce an outline contract with section goals, citation quotas, and figure quotas.
  8. Route:
    • review -> use ../arxiv-paper-writer/SKILL.md
    • empirical -> use ../empirical-paper-writer/SKILL.md

Read the full file on GitHub · 119 lines

Files

What ships with it

11 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. 2mo ago First seen · 119 lines · 41 tokens per session scan A fdc216e0764c

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paper-from-zero is a skill published in the GitHub repository yunshenwuchuxun/latex-paper-skills (272 stars, last pushed 23d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 41 tokens to every session and 1,339 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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