Agent skill

Research Paper Writing

Academic paper writing workflow — literature review, LaTeX setup, structure, citations, and conference submissions.

Install Research Paper Writing

skills CLI

$ npx skills add AlexAI-MCP/hermes-CCC --skill research-paper-writing -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI

$ gh skill install AlexAI-MCP/hermes-CCC research-paper-writing --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy

$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AlexAI-MCP/hermes-CCC.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/research-paper-writing .claude/skills/research-paper-writing && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Paste into Claude Code

Install the "research-paper-writing" agent skill from https://github.com/AlexAI-MCP/hermes-CCC/tree/master/skills/research-paper-writing into .claude/skills/research-paper-writing/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "research-paper-writing", then confirm the skill loads.

Claude Code copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.

$skill-installer

$skill-installer install https://github.com/AlexAI-MCP/hermes-CCC/tree/master/skills/research-paper-writing

Type this inside Codex. $skill-installer <name> installs a curated skill from openai/skills. The installer writes to $CODEX_HOME/skills (default ~/.codex/skills). Restart Codex if the skill does not show up.

skills CLI

$ npx skills add AlexAI-MCP/hermes-CCC --skill research-paper-writing -a codex

Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.

GitHub CLI

$ gh skill install AlexAI-MCP/hermes-CCC research-paper-writing --agent codex

Project scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.

Manual copy

$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AlexAI-MCP/hermes-CCC.git skills-src && mkdir -p .agents/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/research-paper-writing .agents/skills/research-paper-writing && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.agents/skills/ instead of .agents/skills for a personal install.

Codex skills documentation · loads skills from .agents/skills/

Paste into Codex

Install the "research-paper-writing" agent skill from https://github.com/AlexAI-MCP/hermes-CCC/tree/master/skills/research-paper-writing into .agents/skills/research-paper-writing/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "research-paper-writing", then confirm the skill loads.

Codex copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.

skills CLI

$ npx skills add AlexAI-MCP/hermes-CCC --skill research-paper-writing -a cursor

Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.

GitHub CLI

$ gh skill install AlexAI-MCP/hermes-CCC research-paper-writing --agent cursor

Project scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.

Manual copy

$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AlexAI-MCP/hermes-CCC.git skills-src && mkdir -p .cursor/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/research-paper-writing .cursor/skills/research-paper-writing && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.cursor/skills/ instead of .cursor/skills for a personal install.

Cursor skills documentation · loads skills from .cursor/skills/, .agents/skills/, .claude/skills/, .codex/skills/

Paste into Cursor

Install the "research-paper-writing" agent skill from https://github.com/AlexAI-MCP/hermes-CCC/tree/master/skills/research-paper-writing into .cursor/skills/research-paper-writing/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "research-paper-writing", then confirm the skill loads.

Cursor copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.

gemini skills install

$ gemini skills install https://github.com/AlexAI-MCP/hermes-CCC.git --path skills/research-paper-writing

--scope user (default) or --scope workspace; --path is the subfolder of the repo that holds the skill; --consent skips the security confirmation prompt.

skills CLI

$ npx skills add AlexAI-MCP/hermes-CCC --skill research-paper-writing -a gemini-cli

Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.

GitHub CLI

$ gh skill install AlexAI-MCP/hermes-CCC research-paper-writing --agent gemini-cli

Project scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.

Manual copy

$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AlexAI-MCP/hermes-CCC.git skills-src && mkdir -p .gemini/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/research-paper-writing .gemini/skills/research-paper-writing && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.gemini/skills/ instead of .gemini/skills for a personal install, then run /skills reload.

Gemini CLI skills documentation · loads skills from .gemini/skills/, .agents/skills/

Paste into Gemini CLI

Install the "research-paper-writing" agent skill from https://github.com/AlexAI-MCP/hermes-CCC/tree/master/skills/research-paper-writing into .gemini/skills/research-paper-writing/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "research-paper-writing", then confirm the skill loads.

Gemini CLI copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.

GitHub CLI

$ gh skill install AlexAI-MCP/hermes-CCC research-paper-writing

Installs for Copilot at project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Preview a skill first with gh skill preview. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

skills CLI

$ npx skills add AlexAI-MCP/hermes-CCC --skill research-paper-writing -a github-copilot

Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.copilot/skills/.

Manual copy

$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AlexAI-MCP/hermes-CCC.git skills-src && mkdir -p .github/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/research-paper-writing .github/skills/research-paper-writing && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.copilot/skills/ instead of .github/skills for a personal install. Commit .github/skills so cloud agent and code review can use it.

GitHub Copilot skills documentation · loads skills from .github/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/

Paste into GitHub Copilot

Install the "research-paper-writing" agent skill from https://github.com/AlexAI-MCP/hermes-CCC/tree/master/skills/research-paper-writing into .github/skills/research-paper-writing/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "research-paper-writing", then confirm the skill loads.

GitHub Copilot copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.

skills CLI

$ npx skills add AlexAI-MCP/hermes-CCC --skill research-paper-writing -a opencode

OpenCode documents no install command of its own. Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.config/opencode/skills/.

GitHub CLI

$ gh skill install AlexAI-MCP/hermes-CCC research-paper-writing --agent opencode

Project scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.

Manual copy

$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AlexAI-MCP/hermes-CCC.git skills-src && mkdir -p .opencode/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/research-paper-writing .opencode/skills/research-paper-writing && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.config/opencode/skills/ instead of .opencode/skills for a personal install.

OpenCode skills documentation · loads skills from .opencode/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/

Paste into OpenCode

Install the "research-paper-writing" agent skill from https://github.com/AlexAI-MCP/hermes-CCC/tree/master/skills/research-paper-writing into .opencode/skills/research-paper-writing/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "research-paper-writing", then confirm the skill loads.

OpenCode copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.

Facts

Skill name: research-paper-writing
GitHub stars: 135
Token cost: ~1.2k tokens
SKILL.md length: 158 words
Files: 1
Skills in repo: 44
Repo updated: Apr 8, 2026
First seen: Oct 7, 2026
Licence: MIT

At a glance

Academic paper writing workflow — literature review, LaTeX setup, structure, citations, and conference submissions.

Works in 4 steps: Upload all .tex, .bib, .pdf files to… → Share link with co-authors → Enable Track Changes for reviews → …
Tasks that involve LaTeX
SKILL.md covers Paper Structure, Abstract Formula, LaTeX Setup and Minimal LaTeX Paper, plus 6 more sections
Calls apt and brew

What it does

Research Paper Writing is an agent skill from AlexAI-MCP/hermes-CCC. Academic paper writing workflow — literature review, LaTeX setup, structure, citations, and conference submissions.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.2k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

It sits in Research & Science, covering LaTeX, Scientific writing and Literature review. It works with LaTeX. The repository describes itself as: Hermes Agent ported to Claude Code Channel — 46 native skills, no OAuth, no external process. The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

Tasks that involve LaTeX
Tasks that involve Scientific writing
Tasks that involve Literature review

Example prompts

“/research-paper-writing”

Requirements

Python 3

Workflow steps

4 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

Upload all .tex, .bib, .pdf files to Overleaf
Share link with co-authors
Enable Track Changes for reviews
Download final PDF when ready

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 8107e89. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

Tool permissions
Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.
From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.
Runs code
Shell commands in SKILL.md call:
- apt
- brew
From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.
Network
No URLs in SKILL.md.
From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.
Credentials
Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.
From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Research Paper Writing loads about 1.2k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 35 tokens; SKILL.md has 158 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it: ~35
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches: ~1.2k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check: notes

The automated check noted patterns worth knowing about, such as sudo or a known installer.

NoteRuns commands with sudoSKILL.md:53
```
sudo apt install texlive-full
```

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from AlexAI-MCP/hermes-CCC at commit 8107e89, republished under its MIT licence (© AlexAI-MCP). 158 words, ~1,183 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/research-paper-writing/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).

name: research-paper-writing
description: Academic paper writing workflow — literature review, LaTeX setup, structure, citations, and conference submissions.
version: 1.0.0
author: hermes-CCC (ported from Hermes Agent by NousResearch)
license: MIT

Research Paper Writing

End-to-end workflow for writing and submitting academic papers.

Paper Structure

1. Title & Authors
2. Abstract         ← write last, 150-250 words
3. Introduction     ← problem, gap, contributions, roadmap
4. Related Work     ← what exists, why insufficient
5. Methodology      ← your approach, architecture, algorithm
6. Experiments      ← setup, baselines, metrics
7. Results          ← tables, figures, analysis
8. Discussion       ← limitations, broader impact
9. Conclusion       ← summary, future work
10. References
Appendix (optional)

Abstract Formula

[PROBLEM] Prior work has struggled with X.
[GAP] Existing approaches fail because Y.
[SOLUTION] We propose Z, which does A and B.
[RESULTS] On benchmark C, we achieve D% improvement.
[IMPACT] This enables E.

LaTeX Setup

bash

# Ubuntu/Debian
sudo apt install texlive-full

# macOS
brew install --cask mactex

# Windows
# Install MiKTeX from miktex.org

# Verify
pdflatex --version
bibtex --version

Compile

bash

pdflatex paper.tex
bibtex paper
pdflatex paper.tex
pdflatex paper.tex   # run 3x for refs to resolve

# Or with latexmk (auto-detects what to run)
latexmk -pdf paper.tex
latexmk -pdf -pvc paper.tex  # continuous preview

Minimal LaTeX Paper

latex

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{amsmath, amssymb, graphicx, booktabs, hyperref}
\usepackage[margin=1in]{geometry}
\usepackage[numbers]{natbib}

\title{Your Paper Title}
\author{Author One \and Author Two}
\date{}

\begin{document}
\maketitle

\begin{abstract}
Your abstract here.
\end{abstract}

\section{Introduction}
\label{sec:intro}

\section{Related Work}
Prior work \citep{vaswani2017attention} showed...

\section{Method}
\label{sec:method}

\section{Experiments}

\begin{table}[t]
\centering
\caption{Main results}
\begin{tabular}{lcc}
\toprule
Method & Metric A & Metric B \\
\midrule
Baseline & 70.1 & 65.3 \\
Ours & \textbf{74.8} & \textbf{70.2} \\
\bottomrule
\end{tabular}
\end{table}

\section{Conclusion}

\bibliography{references}
\bibliographystyle{plainnat}
\end{document}

References (.bib file)

bibtex

@article{vaswani2017attention,
  title={Attention is all you need},
  author={Vaswani, Ashish and others},
  journal={NeurIPS},
  year={2017}
}

@inproceedings{devlin2019bert,
  title={{BERT}: Pre-training of deep bidirectional transformers},
  author={Devlin, Jacob and others},
  booktitle={NAACL},
  year={2019}
}

Get BibTeX from:

Google Scholar → Cite → BibTeX
arXiv → Export BibTeX (bottom of abstract page)
Semantic Scholar

Literature Review via arXiv

bash

# Use /arxiv skill to find papers
# Example searches:
# /arxiv search "GRPO reinforcement learning language model"
# /arxiv search "retrieval augmented generation survey"
# /arxiv get 2401.00001

Figures

python

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import numpy as np

fig, ax = plt.subplots(figsize=(4, 3))
x = np.linspace(0, 10, 100)
ax.plot(x, np.sin(x), label="Our Method")
ax.plot(x, np.cos(x), "--", label="Baseline")
ax.set_xlabel("Epoch")
ax.set_ylabel("Accuracy")
ax.legend()
ax.grid(alpha=0.3)
plt.tight_layout()
plt.savefig("figure1.pdf", bbox_inches="tight", dpi=300)

Include in LaTeX:

latex

\begin{figure}[t]
\centering
\includegraphics[width=0.8\linewidth]{figure1.pdf}
\caption{Comparison of our method vs baseline.}
\label{fig:main}
\end{figure}

Conference Templates

Conference	Deadline	Template
NeurIPS	May	neurips.cc
ICLR	Oct	iclr.cc
ICML	Jan	icml.cc
ACL	Feb	acl-org.github.io
AAAI	Aug	aaai.org

Download official template from the conference website — never use unofficial ones.

Overleaf (Collaborative)

Upload all .tex, .bib, .pdf files to Overleaf
Share link with co-authors
Enable Track Changes for reviews
Download final PDF when ready

Common Mistakes

Vague claims: "significantly better" → give exact numbers
Missing baselines: always compare against SOTA
No ablation: show which parts of your method matter
Figure too small: aim for readable at 100% zoom
Passive voice overuse: "we propose" not "it is proposed"
Missing limitations: reviewers will point them out; address proactively

Files

Just SKILL.md in skills/research-paper-writing of AlexAI-MCP/hermes-CCC.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 8107e89

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Questions about Research Paper Writing

What does Research Paper Writing do?

Academic paper writing workflow — literature review, LaTeX setup, structure, citations, and conference submissions. Research Paper Writing is an agent skill from AlexAI-MCP/hermes-CCC. Academic paper writing workflow — literature review, LaTeX setup, structure, citations, and conference submissions.

When should I use Research Paper Writing?

Research Paper Writing fits situations like: tasks that involve LaTeX; tasks that involve Scientific writing; tasks that involve Literature review.

How do I install Research Paper Writing in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add AlexAI-MCP/hermes-CCC --skill research-paper-writing -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/research-paper-writing in AlexAI-MCP/hermes-CCC) into .claude/skills/research-paper-writing in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Research Paper Writing in Codex?

Run `npx skills add AlexAI-MCP/hermes-CCC --skill research-paper-writing -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/research-paper-writing in AlexAI-MCP/hermes-CCC) into .agents/skills/research-paper-writing in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Research Paper Writing in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add AlexAI-MCP/hermes-CCC --skill research-paper-writing -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/research-paper-writing, .gemini/skills/research-paper-writing, .github/skills/research-paper-writing and .opencode/skills/research-paper-writing in your project.

What does Research Paper Writing need to run?

Going by SKILL.md and its folder, Research Paper Writing needs the command-line tools its instructions call (apt and brew). Our summary lists: Python 3.

Does Research Paper Writing access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Research Paper Writing safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found notes only (runs commands with sudo), nothing it rates as a warning. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Research Paper Writing use?

Research Paper Writing is published under the MIT licence (declared in SKILL.md). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Research Paper Writing use?

About 1.2k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 4.7k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Research Paper Writing?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Research Paper Writing: Academic Paper Writing Pipeline (Imbad0202/academic-research-skills, 51k stars), Arxiv MCP Server (blazickjp/arxiv-mcp-server, 3.2k stars), Arxiv Paper Writer (appautomaton/latex-arxiv-SKILL, 458 stars) and Arxiv Paper Writer (yunshenwuchuxun/latex-paper-skills, 267 stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Research Paper Writing?

AlexAI-MCP (a GitHub user) maintains it in AlexAI-MCP/hermes-CCC, which has 135 GitHub stars. The repository holds 44 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on April 8, 2026.

Source: AlexAI-MCP/hermes-CCC on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.

Install Research Paper Writing

Facts

At a glance

What it does

When your agent uses it

Example prompts

Requirements

Workflow steps

What it can do on your machine

Tool permissions

Runs code

Network

Credentials

Context cost

Safety

SKILL.md

Research Paper Writing

Paper Structure

Abstract Formula

LaTeX Setup

Compile

Minimal LaTeX Paper

References (.bib file)

Literature Review via arXiv

Figures

Conference Templates

Overleaf (Collaborative)

Common Mistakes

Files

Compare with similar skills

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