Reviewer-style audit and submission gate for academic papers in .tex, .typ, or .pdf.

No licenceAuto-check passedDocuments & Office

Install Paper Audit

skills CLI
$ npx skills add bahayonghang/academic-writing-skills --skill paper-audit -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install bahayonghang/academic-writing-skills paper-audit --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/bahayonghang/academic-writing-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/academic-writing-skills/paper-audit .claude/skills/paper-audit && 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/

Facts

Skill name
paper-audit
GitHub stars
498
Token cost
~5.1k tokens
SKILL.md length
2,209 words
Files
111 (incl. scripts, references)
Skills in repo
8
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
None found

At a glance

Reviewer-style audit and submission gate for academic papers in .tex, .typ, or .pdf.

  • Works in 5 steps: Workspace prep —… → Phase 0 automated audit → Phase 3A committee — run 5 committee… → …
  • Peer-review critique
  • SKILL.md covers What This Skill Produces, Do Not Use, Critical Rules and Delivery Boundary, plus 9 more sections
  • Calls uv and pip

What it does

Paper Audit is an agent skill from bahayonghang/academic-writing-skills. Reviewer-style audit and submission gate for academic papers in .tex, .typ, or .pdf. Use for peer-review critique, readiness/gate decisions, blocker triage, revision roadmaps, journal-style reports, re-audits, and under-claim / self-weakening prose signals. Do not use for source editing, sentence polishing, bibliography search, or compile repair.

Its SKILL.md is about 5.1k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 111 other files, including scripts and reference files (for example `agents/claims_evidence_reviewer_agent.md`, `agents/committee_editor_agent.md` and `agents/committee_literature_agent.md`).

It sits in Documents & Office, covering LaTeX, Citation management and PDF. It works with LaTeX. The repository describes itself as: AI-powered post-writing toolkit for academic papers — format validation, grammar/style polishing, de-AI editing, reference checking, and reviewer-style paper audits. 5 skills for…

When your agent uses it

  • Peer-review critique
  • Readiness/gate decisions
  • Revision roadmaps
  • Journal-style reports

Example prompts

  • “/paper-audit”

Requirements

  • Python 3
  • Pre-approved tools (allowed-tools): Read, Glob, Grep, Bash(uv *), Task

Workflow steps

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

  1. Workspace prep — `scripts/prepare_review_workspace.py
  2. Phase 0 automated audit
  3. Phase 3A committee — run 5 committee perspectives (editor, theory,
  4. Phase 3B section + cross-cutting lanes — section, claims-vs-evidence,
  5. Consolidation — consolidate_review_findings.py, `verify_quotes.py

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 1689d44. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves these tools, so the agent can use them without asking each time:

    • Read
    • Glob
    • Grep
    • Bash(uv *)
    • Task

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    Ships 1 file in scripts/, which the agent can run.

    Shell commands in SKILL.md call:

    • uv
    • pip

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md. Its commands use uv and pip, which can reach the network depending on how they are called.

    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

Paper Audit loads about 5.1k tokens when it runs, and up to ~50k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 90 tokens; SKILL.md has 2,209 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~90
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~5.1k
With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them
~50k

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 passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

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); the scripts in this folder are not scanned.

SKILL.md

Without a licence we can't republish the file, so here is its outline and opening line. It has 2,209 words (~5,137 tokens).

“paper-audit is deep-review-first: behave like a serious reviewer — find technical, methodological, claim-level, and cross-section issues; keep script-backed findings separate from reviewer judgment; return a structured issue bundle plus a revision roadmap. Use it for audit and review, not as…”

— opening of SKILL.md by bahayonghang
name
paper-audit
allowed-tools
Read, Glob, Grep, Bash(uv *), Task
when_to_use
Trigger on "review my paper", "act as a reviewer", "simulate peer review", "audit this paper", "审稿", "投稿门控", "投稿前体检", "把把关", "看看能不能投", "出审稿意见", "is this ready…
metadata.category
academic-writing
metadata.tags
audit, deep-review, paper, pdf, latex, typst, chinese, english, reviewer, gate, re-audit
metadata.version
6.0.0
metadata.last_updated
2026-09-13
argument-hint
[paper.tex|paper.typ|paper.pdf] [--mode quick-audit|deep-review|gate|re-audit|polish] [--report-style deep-review|peer-review] [--focus…

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

SKILL.md and 110 other files (scripts, references) in academic-writing-skills/paper-audit of bahayonghang/academic-writing-skills.

  • SKILL.md
  • agents/claims_evidence_reviewer_agent.md
  • agents/committee_editor_agent.md
  • agents/committee_literature_agent.md
  • agents/committee_logic_agent.md
  • agents/committee_methodology_agent.md
  • agents/committee_theory_agent.md
  • agents/critical_reviewer_agent.md
  • agents/domain_reviewer_agent.md
  • agents/editor_in_chief_agent.md
  • agents/evaluation_fairness_reviewer_agent.md
  • agents/literature_reviewer_agent.md
  • agents/methodology_reviewer_agent.md
  • agents/notation_consistency_reviewer_agent.md
  • agents/openai.yaml
  • agents/prior_art_reviewer_agent.md
  • agents/revision_coach_agent.md
  • agents/revision_suggestion_agent.md
  • agents/section_reviewer_agent.md
  • agents/self_consistency_reviewer_agent.md
  • … and 91 more

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 1689d44

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Questions about Paper Audit

What does Paper Audit do?

Reviewer-style audit and submission gate for academic papers in .tex, .typ, or .pdf. Paper Audit is an agent skill from bahayonghang/academic-writing-skills.pdf.

When should I use Paper Audit?

Paper Audit fits situations like: peer-review critique; readiness/gate decisions; revision roadmaps; journal-style reports.

How do I install Paper Audit in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Paper Audit in Codex?

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

Can I use Paper Audit 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 bahayonghang/academic-writing-skills --skill paper-audit -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/paper-audit, .gemini/skills/paper-audit, .github/skills/paper-audit and .opencode/skills/paper-audit in your project.

What does Paper Audit need to run?

Going by SKILL.md and its folder, Paper Audit needs the command-line tools its instructions call (uv and pip). Our summary lists: Python 3. Its frontmatter pre-approves these tools: Read, Glob, Grep, Bash(uv *), Task.

Does Paper Audit access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Its commands use uv and pip, which can reach the network depending on how they are called. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Paper Audit safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. The check reads SKILL.md only: the scripts in the folder are not scanned, so read them before running anything.

What licence does Paper Audit use?

No licence was found for Paper Audit or its repository. Without one, default copyright applies: ask the author before reusing or redistributing it.

How many tokens does Paper Audit use?

About 5.1k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 21k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full. Its references folder adds about 45k tokens, read only when the agent opens those files.

What are the alternatives to Paper Audit?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Paper Audit: Evidence Ledger (wanshuiyin/Anti-Autoresearch, 161 stars), 01 Paper Review (agentscope-ai/OpenJudge, 870 stars), Check Review Alignment (InternScience/DrClaw, 172 stars) and Kimi PDF (thvroyal/kimi-skills, 238 stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Paper Audit?

bahayonghang (a GitHub user) maintains it in bahayonghang/academic-writing-skills, which has 498 GitHub stars. The repository holds 8 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on September 28, 2026.

Source: bahayonghang/academic-writing-skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.