academic-writing-skills

Academic Writing Skills for Claude Code

中文版

This collection of skills grew out of my day-to-day paper-writing workflow and has been iteratively refined over time. It may still have shortcomings or rough edges; if needed, please fork it and adapt it yourself.

I have recently been writing my dissertation, so I will keep improving latex-thesis-zh based on actual usage. Note: paper-audit review reports are for reference only; please verify and evaluate them yourself.

Post-writing polish and validation for academic papers: format checks, bibliography search and verification, grammar analysis, de-AI editing, and experiment narrative review. Focused on improving existing drafts, not writing papers from scratch.

Recommended models: Claude Opus 4.6 · Fable 5.1 · GPT 6 Astra · Gemini 3.8 Flash · Kimi K3 · DeepSeek V4 Pro

Recommended platforms: Claude Code · Codex

Applicable tools: Claude Code, Codex, Grok Build, Kimi Code, and OMP (Oh My Pi).

Naming a tool here is not a runtime verification. Unrun five-tool runtime stays UNVERIFIED.

Install

Install the repository with skills:

npx skills add bahayonghang/academic-writing-skills

Then open an applicable tool in your manuscript project and ask for the task in natural language. The root README is only a routing guide; the authoritative usage details live in each SKILL.md file and in the docs site.

Choose A Skill

Use the format-specific writing skills when you want source edits or polish. Use paper-audit when you want reviewer-style diagnosis without rewriting the source. Use bib-search-citation when the target is the bibliography library itself.

Typical Prompts

Compile my English LaTeX paper with latexmk and explain the first blocking error.

Check the introduction for logic gaps, citation stacking, and AI-like phrasing.

Run a paper-audit gate on main.tex and separate blockers from polish issues.

Search references.bib for recent Mamba forecasting papers with code and return LaTeX and Typst citation snippets.

Align-check this cover letter against main.tex and report unsupported claims only.

Safety And Outputs

• The skills are for improving and validating existing academic material. They should not invent experiments, citations, policies, or unsupported claims.
• Citation keys, DOI, arXiv IDs, URLs, and local .bib matches are provenance fields, not proof that a paper supports a manuscript claim.
• Online checks are optional. When current venue rules or external metadata matter, verify them from the original source before treating them as binding.
• Source-editing suggestions should preserve LaTeX and Typst syntax and mark required evidence as pending instead of filling it in.
• Audit and helper-script outputs may be JSON, Markdown reports, or diff-comment style findings with severity and priority.

Example finding shape:

% <MODULE> (Line <N>) [Severity: Critical|Major|Minor] [Priority: P0|P1|P2]: <Issue summary>
% Before: <original text>
% After:  <suggested text>
% Rationale: <brief explanation>
% [PENDING VERIFICATION]: <if evidence or metrics are required>

Requirements

• Python 3.10+
• uv for running the bundled Python helpers
• TeX Live or MiKTeX with latexmk and chktex for LaTeX workflows
• XeLaTeX plus CJK fonts for Chinese LaTeX documents
• Typst CLI for Typst workflows
• pymupdf (PyMuPDF) for PDF audit workflows; optional pymupdf4llm for enhanced extraction (both lazily imported)
• Node.js and npm or just only when building the docs site locally

Repository Layout

academic-writing-skills/
├── academic-writing-skills/
│   └── <skill>/
│       ├── SKILL.md          # Skill entrypoint, triggers, routing, contracts
│       ├── scripts/          # Optional executable helpers
│       ├── references/       # Optional source-of-truth guidance
│       ├── examples/         # Optional example prompts or workflows
│       ├── templates/        # Optional output templates
│       ├── evals/            # Optional evaluation cases
│       └── agents/           # Optional agent metadata
├── docs/                     # Documentation site
├── tests/                    # Pytest coverage for contracts and helpers
├── ref/                      # Supporting reference repositories or material
├── .trellis/                 # Project workflow and guidance
├── README.md
└── README_CN.md

Do not rely on the root README for module internals. Open the relevant SKILL.md, references/, and docs page when a workflow needs exact routing, flags, or output contracts.

Documentation

Full documentation is in docs/ and docs/zh/.

Run locally:

just docs

Build the static site:

just doc-build

Contributing

Issues and pull requests are welcome. Keep changes scoped to the relevant skill, update tests or docs when behavior changes, and run just ci before submitting when feasible.

License

Academic Use Only — Not for commercial use.