Latex To Typst

What it does

When your agent uses it

• Asked to convert
• Translate LaTeX to Typst

Example prompts

• “Use the latex-to-typst skill to translate LaTeX documents (.tex) to Typst (.typ), focusing on article-class documents”
• “/latex-to-typst”

Workflow steps

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

1. 1Convert preamble → #set page(), #set text(), #set par() (see 03-page-layout.md, 02-text-formatting.md)
2. 2Convert sectioning → =, ==, === (see 04-headings-sections.md)
3. 3Convert math → inline $...$, block $ ... $ (see 06-math.md, 07-math-symbols.md)
4. 4Convert figures → #figure(image(...), caption: [...]) (see 08-figures.md)
5. 5Convert tables → #table(...) or #figure(table(...), ...) (see 09-tables.md)
6. 6Convert bibliography → #bibliography("refs.bib") + @key citations (see 10-bibliography.md)
7. 7Convert TikZ → #canvas({...}) with CeTZ (see 12-diagrams-cetz.md)
8. 8Fix cross-references → + @label` (see 11-cross-references.md)

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 (its code samples are tex and typst).

  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

Latex To Typst loads about 1.3k tokens when it runs, and up to ~21k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 101 tokens; SKILL.md has 341 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it

~101

When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches

~1.3k

With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them

~21k

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

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 341 words (~1,338 tokens).

name

latex-to-typst

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

SKILL.md and 13 other files (references) in skills/22-christopherkenny-skills/skills/latex-to-typst of brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills.

• SKILL.md
• references/01-document-structure.md
• references/02-text-formatting.md
• references/03-page-layout.md
• references/04-headings-sections.md
• references/05-lists.md
• references/06-math.md
• references/07-math-symbols.md
• references/08-figures.md
• references/09-tables.md
• references/10-bibliography.md
• references/11-cross-references.md
• references/12-diagrams-cetz.md
• references/13-misc.md

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 9fa87d8