AI-powered scientific writing workflow from outline to polished draft

Custom licenceAuto-check passedResearch & Science

Install Scientific Writing Wrapper

skills CLI
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills --skill scientific-writing-wrapper -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills scientific-writing-wrapper --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/brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/43-wentorai-research-plugins/skills/writing/composition/scientific-writing-wrapper .claude/skills/scientific-writing-wrapper && 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
scientific-writing-wrapper
GitHub stars
4.6k
Token cost
~1.9k tokens
SKILL.md length
821 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
383
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
Custom licence

At a glance

AI-powered scientific writing workflow from outline to polished draft

  • Works in 4 steps: Pre-Writing Preparation → Section-by-Section Drafting → Integration and Revision → …
  • Tasks that involve Scientific writing
  • SKILL.md covers Overview, Phase 1: Pre-Writing Preparation, Phase 2: Section-by-Section… and Phase 3: Integration and…, plus 2 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Scientific Writing Wrapper is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills. AI-powered scientific writing workflow from outline to polished draft

Its SKILL.md is about 1.9k 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

  • Tasks that involve Scientific writing

Example prompts

  • “/scientific-writing-wrapper”

Workflow steps

4 steps, taken from the step headings in SKILL.md.

  1. Pre-Writing Preparation
  2. Section-by-Section Drafting
  3. Integration and Revision
  4. Final Polish

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

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

    • github.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

Scientific Writing Wrapper loads about 1.9k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 24 tokens; SKILL.md has 821 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~24
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.9k

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 821 words (~1,900 tokens).

“Writing a scientific paper is one of the most time-consuming parts of the research process. The Scientific Writing Wrapper skill provides a structured, AI-assisted workflow that takes you from raw research notes and results to a polished manuscript draft. It…”

— opening of SKILL.md by brycewang-stanford, Custom licence
name
scientific-writing-wrapper

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

Just SKILL.md in skills/43-wentorai-research-plugins/skills/writing/composition/scientific-writing-wrapper of brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 9fa87d8

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Questions about Scientific Writing Wrapper

What does Scientific Writing Wrapper do?

AI-powered scientific writing workflow from outline to polished draft. Scientific Writing Wrapper is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills.

When should I use Scientific Writing Wrapper?

Scientific Writing Wrapper fits situations like: tasks that involve Scientific writing.

How do I install Scientific Writing Wrapper in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills --skill scientific-writing-wrapper -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/43-wentorai-research-plugins/skills/writing/composition/scientific-writing-wrapper in brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills) into .claude/skills/scientific-writing-wrapper in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Scientific Writing Wrapper in Codex?

Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills --skill scientific-writing-wrapper -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/43-wentorai-research-plugins/skills/writing/composition/scientific-writing-wrapper in brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills) into .agents/skills/scientific-writing-wrapper in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Scientific Writing Wrapper 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 scientific-writing-wrapper -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/scientific-writing-wrapper, .gemini/skills/scientific-writing-wrapper, .github/skills/scientific-writing-wrapper and .opencode/skills/scientific-writing-wrapper in your project.

What does Scientific Writing Wrapper need to run?

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

Does Scientific Writing Wrapper access the network?

SKILL.md names 1 domain. As links in the text: github.com. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Scientific Writing Wrapper 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 Scientific Writing Wrapper use?

Scientific Writing Wrapper 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 Scientific Writing Wrapper use?

About 1.9k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 7.6k 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 Scientific Writing Wrapper?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Scientific Writing Wrapper: 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 Scientific Writing Wrapper?

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.