scholarly-writing-refiner

scholarly-writing-refiner is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from zebbern/claude-code-guide. It costs 72 tokens per session (4,614 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An editor for academic papers that reviews English paragraph by paragraph. It checks grammar, word choice, tone, sentence structure, and how clearly ideas connect, then gives suggestions alongside revised text.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to polish journal articles, conference papers, theses, dissertations, and review articles, with attention to grammar, wording, coherence, or overall language.
Why use it?
It helps researchers make papers easier to read and more consistent in English without changing the underlying research.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to polish journal articles, conference papers, theses, dissertations, and review…

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/zebbern/claude-code-guide/scholarly-writing-refiner
About the project

Claude Code Guide is a reference collection for configuring and using Claude Code, Anthropic’s command-line coding agent. Developers use it to learn commands, skills, agents, MCP, automation, security, integrations, and troubleshooting. Its catalogue add-ons provide many of the documented skills and agents.

zebbern/claude-code-guide · 4,603 stars · on GitHub

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 zebbern/claude-code-guide --skill scholarly-writing-refiner
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/zebbern/claude-code-guide

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 72 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,614 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 $0.00072 $0.04614
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.02307
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00923
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00461

Measured 3d ago against content hash d08b04ffa854, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

scholarly-writing-refiner 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 3d 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/scholarly-writing-refiner/SKILL.md · 352 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 352 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Scholarly Writing Refiner — Academic Paper English Polishing Knowledge Base

Helps users review and polish English papers paragraph by paragraph according to international academic journal standards. Covers grammar correction, academic word choice optimization, voice normalization, coherence strengthening, sentence variety, and more. Outputs revision suggestions along with the polished text.

Quick Start

Users only need to provide:

  1. Text to polish: One or more paragraphs of English paper content
  2. Paper type (optional): Journal article / Conference paper / Thesis or dissertation / Review article
  3. Target journal/field (optional): e.g., Nature, IEEE, AAAI, Medicine, Computer Science, etc.
  4. Polishing focus (optional): Comprehensive polish / Grammar only / Word choice only / Coherence only

Example:

"Polish this Introduction for me. The target venue is NeurIPS, and I'd like the language to sound more natural with better logical flow."


1. Review Dimensions Overview

Polishing is carried out across 5 dimensions. Each dimension is rated independently with specific revision suggestions:

Dimension Label Review Focus
Grammar Grammar Subject-verb agreement, tense, articles, prepositions, clause structure, punctuation
Word Choice Word Choice Academic register, precision, collocation, avoidance of colloquialisms
Voice Voice & Tense Active/passive voice selection, tense consistency
Coherence Coherence & Cohesion Intra-paragraph and inter-paragraph transitions, argumentation chain, use of signaling words
Sentence Structure Sentence Structure Sentence variety, balance of long and short sentences, coordination and subordination

2. Grammar Review Rules

2.1 Common Grammar Errors Checklist

Error Type Incorrect Example Correction Explanation
Subject-verb disagreement The results of the experiment shows... The results of the experiment show... Subject is "results" (plural)
Missing/misused article We propose method to solve... We propose a method to solve... Singular countable nouns require an article
Dangling modifier Using the proposed method, the accuracy was improved. Using the proposed method, we improved the accuracy. The implied subject of a participial phrase must match the main clause subject
Run-on sentence The model performs well , it achieves 95% accuracy. The model performs well**;** it achieves 95% accuracy. / The model performs well**. It** achieves 95% accuracy. A comma cannot join two independent clauses
Incomplete comparison Our method is more efficient. Our method is more efficient than the baseline. Comparatives require an explicit object of comparison
Broken parallelism The system can detect, classify, and is able to segment... The system can detect, classify, and segment... Coordinated elements must share the same grammatical form
that/which confusion The model which we proposed... The model that we proposed... Restrictive relative clauses use "that"
Irregular plurals These phenomenon indicate... These phenomena indicate... Watch for irregular plural forms

Read the full file on GitHub · 352 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. 3d ago First seen · 352 lines · 72 tokens per session scan A d08b04ffa854

Subscribe to this mod's changes

scholarly-writing-refiner is a skill published in the GitHub repository zebbern/claude-code-guide (4,603 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 72 tokens to every session and 4,614 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-09-03.

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