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Agent skill
Academic Writing
by brycewang-stanford in brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills
Activate when the user is drafting any academic economics content from scratch (e.g., outlines, abstracts, introductions, data/methods/identification sections, results narratives, conclusions…
Install Academic Writing
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills --skill academic-writing -a claude-codeProject install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills academic-writing --agent claude-codeProject scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/27-dariia-m-my_claude_skills/academic_writing .claude/skills/academic-writing && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.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/
Install the "academic-writing" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills/tree/main/skills/27-dariia-m-my_claude_skills/academic_writing into .claude/skills/academic-writing/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "academic-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 install https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills/tree/main/skills/27-dariia-m-my_claude_skills/academic_writingType 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.
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills --skill academic-writing -a codexProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills academic-writing --agent codexProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .agents/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/27-dariia-m-my_claude_skills/academic_writing .agents/skills/academic-writing && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.agents/skills/ instead of .agents/skills for a personal install.
Codex skills documentation · loads skills from .agents/skills/
Install the "academic-writing" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills/tree/main/skills/27-dariia-m-my_claude_skills/academic_writing into .agents/skills/academic-writing/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "academic-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.
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills --skill academic-writing -a cursorProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills academic-writing --agent cursorProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .cursor/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/27-dariia-m-my_claude_skills/academic_writing .cursor/skills/academic-writing && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.cursor/skills/ instead of .cursor/skills for a personal install.
Cursor skills documentation · loads skills from .cursor/skills/, .agents/skills/, .claude/skills/, .codex/skills/
Install the "academic-writing" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills/tree/main/skills/27-dariia-m-my_claude_skills/academic_writing into .cursor/skills/academic-writing/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "academic-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 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills.git --path skills/27-dariia-m-my_claude_skills/academic_writing--scope user (default) or --scope workspace; --path is the subfolder of the repo that holds the skill; --consent skips the security confirmation prompt.
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills --skill academic-writing -a gemini-cliProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills academic-writing --agent gemini-cliProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .gemini/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/27-dariia-m-my_claude_skills/academic_writing .gemini/skills/academic-writing && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.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/
Install the "academic-writing" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills/tree/main/skills/27-dariia-m-my_claude_skills/academic_writing into .gemini/skills/academic-writing/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "academic-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.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills academic-writingInstalls 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).
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills --skill academic-writing -a github-copilotProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.copilot/skills/.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .github/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/27-dariia-m-my_claude_skills/academic_writing .github/skills/academic-writing && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.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/
Install the "academic-writing" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills/tree/main/skills/27-dariia-m-my_claude_skills/academic_writing into .github/skills/academic-writing/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "academic-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.
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills --skill academic-writing -a opencodeOpenCode documents no install command of its own. Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.config/opencode/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills academic-writing --agent opencodeProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .opencode/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/27-dariia-m-my_claude_skills/academic_writing .opencode/skills/academic-writing && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.config/opencode/skills/ instead of .opencode/skills for a personal install.
OpenCode skills documentation · loads skills from .opencode/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "academic-writing" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills/tree/main/skills/27-dariia-m-my_claude_skills/academic_writing into .opencode/skills/academic-writing/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "academic-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
academic-writing- GitHub stars
- 4.6k
- Token cost
- ~5.2k tokens
- SKILL.md length
- 2,568 words
- Files
- 1
- Skills in repo
- 383
- Repo updated
- First seen
- Licence
- Custom licence
At a glance
Activate when the user is drafting any academic economics content from scratch (e.g., outlines, abstracts, introductions, data/methods/identification sections, results narratives, conclusions…
- Works in 12 steps: Template use policy (read first) → Writing workflow (default) → Canonical structure for economics papers → …
- Is drafting any academic economics content from scratch (e.g.
- SKILL.md covers 0) Template use policy (read…, 1) Writing workflow (default), 2) Canonical structure for… and Paper lengths definitions and…, plus 5 more sections
- Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
What it does
Academic Writing is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills. Activate when the user is drafting any academic economics content from scratch (e.g., outlines, abstracts, introductions, data/methods/identification sections, results narratives, conclusions, referee responses, table/figure captions) and needs economics-specific structure, phrasing options, and quality checks to produce publication-ready prose.
Its SKILL.md is about 5.2k 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 Scientific writing. The repository describes itself as: 🔬 A curated collection of 23,000+ agent skills for empirical research across 8 social science disciplines. | 精选 23,000+ AI Agent 技能库，覆盖8大社会科学学科的实证研究。CoPaper.AI…
When your agent uses it
- Is drafting any academic economics content from scratch (e.g.
- Data/methods/identification sections
- Results narratives
- Referee responses
Example prompts
- “/academic-writing”
Workflow steps
12 steps, taken from the step headings in SKILL.md.
- Template use policy (read first)
- Writing workflow (default)
- Canonical structure for economics papers
- Paragraph architecture (mandatory)
- Sentence-level rules (mandatory)
- Titles: specific and searchable
- Abstracts: compressed question + design + results
- Introductions: the contract with the reader
- Literature positioning: synthesize, don’t list
- Data and measurement: make replication feel possible
- Empirical strategy and identification: write the estimand first
- Results writing: narrate the evidence, then interpret
What it can do on your machine
Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 9fa87d8. 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
No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.
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
Academic Writing loads about 5.2k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 91 tokens; SKILL.md has 2,568 words of instructions outside code blocks.
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); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.
SKILL.md
Its licence (Custom licence) doesn't allow us to republish the file, so here is its outline and opening line. It has 2,568 words (~5,150 tokens).
“You are a writing-first academic economics assistant. Your primary job is to generate original, publication-ready draft text (plus outlines and paragraph plans) that follows economics conventions. Editing is secondary and only used to polish user-provided drafts.”
- name
- academic-writing
Files
Just SKILL.md in skills/27-dariia-m-my_claude_skills/academic_writing of brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills.
Open the folder on GitHubat commit 9fa87d8
Compare with similar skills
Academic Writing next to the 5 skills that share the most tags, products or categories with it. Stars are the repository's; “used in” counts other GitHub owners with a copy.
| Skill | Stars | Used in | Tokens | Auto-check | Licence | Repo updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Academic Writing this skillbrycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills | 4.6k | — | ~5.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | Custom licence | |
| Nature-Style Scientific FiguresYuan1z0825/nature-skills | 47k | — | ~3.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | |
| Citation Verification GuideGalaxy-Dawn/claude-scholar | 5.7k | 2 repos | ~1.9k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Citation ManagementK-Dense-AI/claude-scientific-writer | 2.4k | 2 repos | ~3.9k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | |
| Academic Paper Composerlishix520/academic-paper-skills | 1.4k | 2 repos | ~6.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Academic Paper Writing PipelineImbad0202/academic-research-skills | 51k | — | ~16k | Automated safety check: Pass | Custom licence |
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Questions about Academic Writing
What does Academic Writing do?
Activate when the user is drafting any academic economics content from scratch (e.g., outlines, abstracts, introductions, data/methods/identification sections, results narratives, conclusions…. Academic Writing is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills., outlines, abstracts, introductions, data/methods/identification sections, results narratives, conclusions, referee responses, table/figure captions) and needs economics-specific structure, phrasing options, and quality checks to produce publication-ready prose.
When should I use Academic Writing?
Academic Writing fits situations like: is drafting any academic economics content from scratch (e.g; data/methods/identification sections; results narratives; referee responses.
How do I install Academic Writing in Claude Code?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills --skill academic-writing -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/27-dariia-m-my_claude_skills/academic_writing in brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills) into .claude/skills/academic-writing in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.
How do I install Academic Writing in Codex?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills --skill academic-writing -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/27-dariia-m-my_claude_skills/academic_writing in brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills) into .agents/skills/academic-writing in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.
Can I use Academic 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 brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills --skill academic-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/academic-writing, .gemini/skills/academic-writing, .github/skills/academic-writing and .opencode/skills/academic-writing in your project.
What does Academic Writing need to run?
SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Academic Writing is instructions for the agent only.
Does Academic 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 Academic Writing 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. Review the folder before installing.
What licence does Academic Writing use?
Academic Writing has a licence file (the repository's licence) that doesn't match a standard licence. Read it on GitHub before reusing the skill.
How many tokens does Academic Writing use?
About 5.2k 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.
What are the alternatives to Academic Writing?
Skills that share tags, products or a category with Academic Writing: Nature-Style Scientific Figures (Yuan1z0825/nature-skills, 47k stars), Citation Verification Guide (Galaxy-Dawn/claude-scholar, 5.7k stars), Citation Management (K-Dense-AI/claude-scientific-writer, 2.4k stars) and Academic Paper Composer (lishix520/academic-paper-skills, 1.4k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.
Who maintains Academic Writing?
brycewang-stanford (a GitHub user) maintains it in brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills, which has 4,556 GitHub stars. The repository holds 383 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 5, 2026.
Source: brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.