What is paper-english-polishing?

A paragraph-by-paragraph editor for academic papers written in LaTeX, including Chinese-to-English translation and English refinement.

Use it to polish research papers, remove awkward Chinese-influenced phrasing, keep terminology consistent, and review each change in a structured table.

It improves academic wording while preserving technical facts, equations, citations, references, and the author’s intended meaning.

paper-english-polishing — Skill for Codex by zhousodo

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 zhousodo/paper-submission-check --skill paper-english-polishing

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/zhousodo/paper-submission-check

Made for: Codex.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

README.md

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Your own site

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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

Your own site · 80×15

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Per session 106 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 5,746 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00106	$0.05746
Opus 5.5	$0.00042	$0.02298
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00021	$0.01149
Haiku 4.5	$0.00011	$0.00575

Measured 2mo ago against content hash b942a8f25de4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

paper-english-polishing 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.

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/paper-english-polishing/SKILL.md · 494 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 494 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Academic English Polishing

Paragraph-level polishing for academic papers targeting top-tier venues (IEEE S&P, USENIX Security, NeurIPS, ICML, TDSC, TIFS, etc.). Handles both Chinese-to-English translation and English-to-English refinement.

Relationship to paper-submission-check: That skill detects issues; this skill rewrites text. Run this skill first (polishing), then run paper-submission-check (validation).

Execution Safety [CRITICAL]

Before any rewrite, lock these invariants:

Never change technical facts: numbers, theorem statements, equations, symbols, citations, table/figure references.
Never invent claims, datasets, baselines, or citations that are not in source text.
Preserve author intent; when wording is ambiguous, keep a conservative rewrite and flag a question.
Preserve all LaTeX commands and labels (\label{}, \ref{}, \cite{}) exactly unless user explicitly asks to refactor LaTeX.
Chinese comments are allowed: LaTeX comments (% 中文注释) may remain in Chinese — they are invisible in PDF and serve as author notes. Do NOT translate or remove them unless the author explicitly requests it.
Chinese in \zhpara{}/\zhcaption{} is preserved: These are part of the bilingual comparison scaffolding and are hidden by \showchinesefalse before submission.

Workflow

Polishing Progress:
- [ ] Phase 0: Pre-Analysis (scope lock, language, venue, terminology, bilingual scaffolding)
- [ ] Phase 0s: Structural Replacement (title, theorem names, keywords, TikZ labels, table headers, algorithm text, pgfplots labels — direct EN replacement, no bilingual pairing)
- [ ] Phase 1: Title & Abstract
- [ ] Phase 2: Introduction
- [ ] Phase 3: Related Work
- [ ] Phase 4: Method / Approach
- [ ] Phase 5: Experiments / Evaluation
- [ ] Phase 6: Discussion / Limitations
- [ ] Phase 7: Conclusion
- [ ] Phase 8: Appendix (if any)
- [ ] Phase 9: Cross-Section Consistency Verification
- [ ] Phase 10: Final AI-Style Sweep
- [ ] Phase 11: Submission Toggle (set \showchinesefalse, verify zero Chinese in PDF)

Read the full file on GitHub · 494 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 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.

2mo ago First seen · 494 lines · 106 tokens per session scan A b942a8f25de4

Subscribe to this mod's changes

paper-english-polishing is a skill published in the GitHub repository zhousodo/paper-submission-check (24 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 106 tokens to every session and 5,746 once invoked, about $0.0004 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.

Writing and docs

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