Agent skill

Academic Writing Latex

by wentorai in wentorai/research-plugins

LaTeX-based academic writing assistant for thesis and paper templates

MITAuto-check passedDocuments & Office

Install Academic Writing Latex

skills CLI
$ npx skills add wentorai/research-plugins --skill academic-writing-latex -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install wentorai/research-plugins academic-writing-latex --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/wentorai/research-plugins.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/writing/latex/academic-writing-latex .claude/skills/academic-writing-latex && 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
academic-writing-latex
GitHub stars
298
Used in
1 other repo
Token cost
~1.8k tokens
SKILL.md length
116 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
405
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

LaTeX-based academic writing assistant for thesis and paper templates

  • Tasks that involve LaTeX
  • SKILL.md covers Overview, Template Selection, Document Structure and Essential Environments, plus 3 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
  • Tasks that involve Scientific writing

What it does

Academic Writing Latex is an agent skill from wentorai/research-plugins. LaTeX-based academic writing assistant for thesis and paper templates

Its SKILL.md is about 1.8k 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 Documents & Office, covering LaTeX, Scientific writing and Essays and academic help. It works with LaTeX. The repository describes itself as: 350+ academic research skills, MCP configs, and plugins for Research-Claw and AI agents. The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Tasks that involve LaTeX
  • Tasks that involve Scientific writing
  • Tasks that involve Essays and academic help

Example prompts

  • “/academic-writing-latex”

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit bf44b3c. 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 (its code samples are latex, bash and bibtex).

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

  • Network

    Links to these hosts (documentation or services it may open):

    • ieee.org
    • acm.org
    • elsevier.com
    • journals.aps.org
    • overleaf.com
    • en.wikibooks.org
    • ctan.org
    • bibtex.com

    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 Latex loads about 1.8k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 23 tokens; SKILL.md has 116 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~23
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.8k

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

The full file from wentorai/research-plugins at commit bf44b3c, republished under its MIT licence (© wentorai). 116 words, ~1,838 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/academic-writing-latex/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
academic-writing-latex
description
LaTeX-based academic writing assistant for thesis and paper templates

Academic Writing with LaTeX Templates

Overview

This guide covers the workflow of writing academic papers and theses using LaTeX templates. It addresses template selection, document structure, common environments, bibliography management, and compilation. Designed for researchers who need to produce professional documents conforming to specific institutional or publisher formatting requirements.

Template Selection

Conference and Journal Templates
PublisherTemplate SourceDocument Class
IEEEieee.org/conferencesIEEEtran
ACMacm.org/publicationsacmart
SpringerLNCS template packagellncs
Elsevierelsarticleelsarticle
NatureAuthor submission guidelinesnature
APS/AIPREVTeXrevtex4-2
Thesis Templates
latex
% Chinese university thesis examples
\documentclass{thuthesis}    % Tsinghua University
\documentclass{sjtuthesis}   % Shanghai Jiao Tong University
\documentclass{ustcthesis}   % USTC
\documentclass{xjtuthesis}   % Xi'an Jiao Tong University

% International thesis
\documentclass{Dissertate}   % Harvard-style
\documentclass[phd]{novathesis}  % Universidade Nova de Lisboa

Document Structure

Basic Paper Structure
latex
\documentclass[conference]{IEEEtran}

% Preamble — packages
\usepackage{amsmath,amssymb}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{booktabs}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}

\begin{document}

\title{Your Paper Title}
\author{
  \IEEEauthorblockN{First Author}
  \IEEEauthorblockA{Affiliation\\Email: first@example.com}
  \and
  \IEEEauthorblockN{Second Author}
  \IEEEauthorblockA{Affiliation\\Email: second@example.com}
}
\maketitle

\begin{abstract}
Your abstract here (150-250 words).
\end{abstract}

\begin{IEEEkeywords}
keyword1, keyword2, keyword3
\end{IEEEkeywords}

\section{Introduction}
\label{sec:intro}
Your introduction text...

\section{Related Work}
\section{Methodology}
\section{Experiments}
\section{Results}
\section{Conclusion}

\bibliographystyle{IEEEtran}
\bibliography{references}

\end{document}
Thesis Structure
latex
\documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{report}

\begin{document}

\frontmatter
\include{chapters/titlepage}
\include{chapters/abstract}
\include{chapters/acknowledgments}
\tableofcontents
\listoffigures
\listoftables

\mainmatter
\include{chapters/introduction}
\include{chapters/literature-review}
\include{chapters/methodology}
\include{chapters/results}
\include{chapters/discussion}
\include{chapters/conclusion}

\appendix
\include{chapters/appendix-a}

\backmatter
\bibliographystyle{apalike}
\bibliography{references}

\end{document}

Essential Environments

Figures
latex
\begin{figure}[htbp]
  \centering
  \includegraphics[width=0.8\columnwidth]{figures/architecture.pdf}
  \caption{System architecture overview. The input module processes
           raw data before passing to the transformer encoder.}
  \label{fig:architecture}
\end{figure}

% Two subfigures side by side
\usepackage{subcaption}
\begin{figure}[htbp]
  \centering
  \begin{subfigure}[b]{0.48\columnwidth}
    \includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{fig_a.pdf}
    \caption{Training loss}
    \label{fig:loss}
  \end{subfigure}
  \hfill
  \begin{subfigure}[b]{0.48\columnwidth}
    \includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{fig_b.pdf}
    \caption{Validation accuracy}
    \label{fig:acc}
  \end{subfigure}
  \caption{Training dynamics over 100 epochs.}
  \label{fig:training}
\end{figure}
Tables
latex
\begin{table}[htbp]
  \centering
  \caption{Comparison of methods on benchmark dataset.}
  \label{tab:results}
  \begin{tabular}{lccc}
    \toprule
    Method & Precision & Recall & F1 \\
    \midrule
    Baseline    & 0.72 & 0.68 & 0.70 \\
    Method A    & 0.81 & 0.76 & 0.78 \\
    \textbf{Ours} & \textbf{0.89} & \textbf{0.85} & \textbf{0.87} \\
    \bottomrule
  \end{tabular}
\end{table}
Mathematics
latex
% Inline math
The loss function $\mathcal{L}(\theta) = -\sum_{i=1}^{N} y_i \log \hat{y}_i$
minimizes cross-entropy.

% Display equation (numbered)
\begin{equation}
  \text{Attention}(Q, K, V) = \text{softmax}\left(\frac{QK^T}{\sqrt{d_k}}\right)V
  \label{eq:attention}
\end{equation}

% Aligned equations
\begin{align}
  \nabla_\theta J(\theta) &= \mathbb{E}_{\tau \sim \pi_\theta}
    \left[\sum_{t=0}^{T} \nabla_\theta \log \pi_\theta(a_t|s_t) A_t\right]
    \label{eq:policy_grad} \\
  A_t &= Q(s_t, a_t) - V(s_t) \label{eq:advantage}
\end{align}

% Refer to equations
As shown in Equation~\eqref{eq:attention}, the attention mechanism...
Algorithms
latex
\usepackage{algorithm}
\usepackage{algorithmic}

\begin{algorithm}[htbp]
  \caption{Training procedure}
  \label{alg:training}
  \begin{algorithmic}[1]
    \REQUIRE Dataset $\mathcal{D}$, learning rate $\eta$, epochs $E$
    \ENSURE Trained model parameters $\theta^*$
    \STATE Initialize $\theta$ randomly
    \FOR{$e = 1$ to $E$}
      \FOR{each batch $B \in \mathcal{D}$}
        \STATE Compute loss $\mathcal{L}(B; \theta)$
        \STATE $\theta \leftarrow \theta - \eta \nabla_\theta \mathcal{L}$
      \ENDFOR
    \ENDFOR
    \RETURN $\theta$
  \end{algorithmic}
\end{algorithm}

Bibliography Management

BibTeX Workflow
bash
# Compilation sequence (4 steps)
pdflatex paper.tex     # 1. First pass (generates .aux)
bibtex paper           # 2. Process bibliography
pdflatex paper.tex     # 3. Second pass (resolves refs)
pdflatex paper.tex     # 4. Final pass (fixes page numbers)

# Or use latexmk for automatic compilation
latexmk -pdf paper.tex
BibTeX Entry Types
bibtex
@article{vaswani2017attention,
  title={Attention is all you need},
  author={Vaswani, Ashish and Shazeer, Noam and Parmar, Niki and ...},
  journal={Advances in neural information processing systems},
  volume={30},
  year={2017}
}

@inproceedings{devlin2019bert,
  title={BERT: Pre-training of deep bidirectional transformers},
  author={Devlin, Jacob and Chang, Ming-Wei and Lee, Kenton and ...},
  booktitle={Proceedings of NAACL-HLT 2019},
  pages={4171--4186},
  year={2019}
}

Compilation

bash
# XeLaTeX (for Unicode/CJK support)
xelatex paper.tex && bibtex paper && xelatex paper.tex && xelatex paper.tex

# LuaLaTeX (alternative Unicode engine)
lualatex paper.tex

# Automated with latexmk
latexmk -xelatex paper.tex    # XeLaTeX
latexmk -pdf paper.tex        # pdfLaTeX
latexmk -c paper.tex          # Clean auxiliary files

References

© wentorai, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

Just SKILL.md in skills/writing/latex/academic-writing-latex of wentorai/research-plugins.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit bf44b3c

Used in 1 other repository

We found 1 copy of this SKILL.md (exact, near-identical or edited) in other folders, from 1 other GitHub owner. This page covers the copy in wentorai/research-plugins, which our catalogue first saw on October 7, 2026.

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Questions about Academic Writing Latex

What does Academic Writing Latex do?

LaTeX-based academic writing assistant for thesis and paper templates. Academic Writing Latex is an agent skill from wentorai/research-plugins.

When should I use Academic Writing Latex?

Academic Writing Latex fits situations like: tasks that involve LaTeX; tasks that involve Scientific writing; tasks that involve Essays and academic help.

How do I install Academic Writing Latex in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Academic Writing Latex in Codex?

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

Can I use Academic Writing Latex 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 wentorai/research-plugins --skill academic-writing-latex -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-latex, .gemini/skills/academic-writing-latex, .github/skills/academic-writing-latex and .opencode/skills/academic-writing-latex in your project.

What does Academic Writing Latex need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Academic Writing Latex is instructions for the agent only.

Does Academic Writing Latex access the network?

SKILL.md names 8 domains. As links in the text: ieee.org, acm.org, elsevier.com, journals.aps.org, overleaf.com, en.wikibooks.org, ctan.org and bibtex.com. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Academic Writing Latex 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 Latex use?

Academic Writing Latex is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Academic Writing Latex use?

About 1.8k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 7.4k 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 Latex?

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Who maintains Academic Writing Latex?

wentorai (a GitHub user) maintains it in wentorai/research-plugins, which has 298 GitHub stars. The repository holds 405 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on June 19, 2026.

Source: wentorai/research-plugins on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.