Agent skill

Paper Writing Studio

by bahayonghang in bahayonghang/academic-writing-skills

Use this academic writing skill to polish or translate academic writing with an explicit Nature, IEEE, Elsevier, or neutral profile.

No licenceAuto-check passedResearch & Science

Install Paper Writing Studio

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

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install bahayonghang/academic-writing-skills paper-writing-studio --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-writing-studio .claude/skills/paper-writing-studio && 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-writing-studio
GitHub stars
500
Token cost
~2.4k tokens
SKILL.md length
1,026 words
Files
28 (incl. scripts)
Skills in repo
8
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
None found

At a glance

Use this academic writing skill to polish or translate academic writing with an explicit Nature, IEEE, Elsevier, or neutral profile.

  • Works in 5 steps: Read input_text, target, and the… → Select the profile with the… → Read only profiles/.json for the… → …
  • Tasks that involve Scientific writing
  • SKILL.md covers Capability Summary, Triggering, Do Not Use and Module Router, plus 7 more sections
  • Runs Python scripts from its folder

What it does

Paper Writing Studio is an agent skill from bahayonghang/academic-writing-skills. Use this academic writing skill to polish or translate academic writing with an explicit Nature, IEEE, Elsevier, or neutral profile. Selects a profile by explicit venue, journal allowlist, then unambiguous domain; reports uncertainty instead of guessing.

Its SKILL.md is about 2.4k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 31 other files, including scripts (for example `README.md`, `agents/interface.yaml` and `evals/evals.json`).

It sits in Research & Science, covering Scientific writing. 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

  • Tasks that involve Scientific writing

Example prompts

  • “/paper-writing-studio”

Requirements

  • Python 3
  • Pre-approved tools (allowed-tools): Read, Glob, Grep

Workflow steps

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

  1. Read input_text, target, and the optional venue, journal, and domain. Map target to its canonical section.
  2. Select the profile with the select_profile precedence. An explicit venue wins. Record each journal or domain conflict. If no safe mapping…
  3. Read only profiles/.json for the selected profile. Follow its load_order and section_routes. Check each source path. Record each absent…
  4. Rewrite the prose. Keep each protected token unchanged. In rules_applied and patterns_used, list only rules that trace to a loaded row, a…
  5. Return text, text_compact, and summary inline.

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

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    Ships 1 file in scripts/ (Python, from the files we listed), which the agent can run.

    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

Paper Writing Studio loads about 2.4k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 69 tokens; SKILL.md has 1,026 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~69
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~2.4k

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 1,026 words (~2,373 tokens).

“Polish or translate academic prose with one venue profile: nature, ieee, elsevier, or the neutral unspecified baseline. Use scripts/core.py for selection and the output contract. scripts/core.py is an internal module. It has no command-line interface.”

— opening of SKILL.md by bahayonghang
name
paper-writing-studio
allowed-tools
Read, Glob, Grep
when_to_use
Trigger on "polish this abstract in Nature style", "rewrite this IEEE Transactions introduction", "rewrite the experiments section for an Elsevier…
metadata.category
academic-writing
metadata.tags
academic-writing, polish, translation, venue-profile, nature, ieee, elsevier, evidence-tokens
metadata.version
6.0.0
metadata.last_updated
2026-09-23
argument-hint
<input_text> target=<section> [venue=nature|ieee|elsevier|unspecified] [journal=<name>] [domain=<key>]

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

SKILL.md and 27 other files (scripts) in academic-writing-skills/paper-writing-studio of bahayonghang/academic-writing-skills.

  • SKILL.md
  • README.md
  • agents/interface.yaml
  • evals/evals.json
  • evals/output_cases.json
  • evals/output_contract_cases.json
  • evals/output_contract_eval.py
  • evals/trigger_cases.json
  • evals/trigger_eval.json
  • examples/ieee-introduction-rewrite.md
  • examples/nature-abstract-polish.md
  • examples/unspecified-neutral-polish.md
  • manifest.json
  • profiles/elsevier.json
  • profiles/ieee.json
  • profiles/nature.json
  • reports
  • … and 11 more

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 1689d44

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Works with

Questions about Paper Writing Studio

What does Paper Writing Studio do?

Use this academic writing skill to polish or translate academic writing with an explicit Nature, IEEE, Elsevier, or neutral profile. Paper Writing Studio is an agent skill from bahayonghang/academic-writing-skills. Use this academic writing skill to polish or translate academic writing with an explicit Nature, IEEE, Elsevier, or neutral profile.

When should I use Paper Writing Studio?

Paper Writing Studio fits situations like: tasks that involve Scientific writing.

How do I install Paper Writing Studio in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Paper Writing Studio in Codex?

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

Can I use Paper Writing Studio 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-writing-studio -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-writing-studio, .gemini/skills/paper-writing-studio, .github/skills/paper-writing-studio and .opencode/skills/paper-writing-studio in your project.

What does Paper Writing Studio need to run?

Going by SKILL.md and its folder, Paper Writing Studio needs Python for the scripts in its folder. Our summary lists: Python 3. Its frontmatter pre-approves these tools: Read, Glob, Grep.

Does Paper Writing Studio 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 Paper Writing Studio 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 Writing Studio use?

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

How many tokens does Paper Writing Studio use?

About 2.4k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 9.5k 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 Paper Writing Studio?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Paper Writing Studio: Academic Paper Writing Pipeline (Imbad0202/academic-research-skills, 51k stars), Econ Write (hanlulong/econ-writing-skill, 651 stars), NSFC Grant Rationale Writer (huangwb8/ChineseResearchLaTeX, 2.9k stars) and Paper Orchestra (Ar9av/PaperOrchestra, 679 stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Paper Writing Studio?

bahayonghang (a GitHub user) maintains it in bahayonghang/academic-writing-skills, which has 500 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.