Agent skill

Academic Paper Helper

by cnfjlhj in cnfjlhj/ai-collab-playbook

Use only when the user explicitly asks for help drafting or revising an AI/ML research paper in LaTeX, including structure, BibTeX, formatting, or academic-writing checks.

No licenceAuto-check passedResearch & Science

Install Academic Paper Helper

skills CLI
$ npx skills add cnfjlhj/ai-collab-playbook --skill academic-paper-helper -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install cnfjlhj/ai-collab-playbook academic-paper-helper --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/cnfjlhj/ai-collab-playbook.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/full/academic-paper-helper .claude/skills/academic-paper-helper && 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-paper-helper
GitHub stars
454
Token cost
~1.8k tokens
SKILL.md length
213 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
17
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
None found

At a glance

Use only when the user explicitly asks for help drafting or revising an AI/ML research paper in LaTeX, including structure, BibTeX, formatting, or academic-writing checks.

  • Works in 8 steps: LaTeX 论文框架生成 → BibTeX 条目管理 → 学术写作规范检查 → …
  • Explicitly asks for help drafting
  • SKILL.md covers 功能概述, 核心功能, 工作流程 and 集成 AGENTS.md / CLAUDE.md 规则, plus 1 more section
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Academic Paper Helper is an agent skill from cnfjlhj/ai-collab-playbook. Use only when the user explicitly asks for help drafting or revising an AI/ML research paper in LaTeX, including structure, BibTeX, formatting, or academic-writing checks.

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 Research & Science, covering LaTeX, Citation management and Scientific writing. It works with LaTeX. The repository describes itself as: Practical AI collaboration playbook for research, writing, reading, and coding: article, prompts, agent rules, and reusable skills.

When your agent uses it

  • Explicitly asks for help drafting
  • Revising an AI/ML research paper in LaTeX
  • Including structure
  • Academic-writing checks

Example prompts

  • “/academic-paper-helper”

Workflow steps

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

  1. LaTeX 论文框架生成
  2. BibTeX 条目管理
  3. 学术写作规范检查
  4. LaTeX 编译错误诊断
  5. 论文结构模板
  6. 常用 LaTeX 代码片段
  7. 引用风格
  8. 投稿前检查清单

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit b3ee0d6. 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 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):

    • overleaf.com
    • scholar.google.com
    • oeis.org

    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 Paper Helper loads about 1.8k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 48 tokens; SKILL.md has 213 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~48
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

Without a licence we can't republish the file, so here is its outline and opening line. It has 213 words (~1,792 tokens).

name
academic-paper-helper

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

Just SKILL.md in skills/full/academic-paper-helper of cnfjlhj/ai-collab-playbook.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit b3ee0d6

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Works with

Questions about Academic Paper Helper

What does Academic Paper Helper do?

Use only when the user explicitly asks for help drafting or revising an AI/ML research paper in LaTeX, including structure, BibTeX, formatting, or academic-writing checks. Academic Paper Helper is an agent skill from cnfjlhj/ai-collab-playbook. Use only when the user explicitly asks for help drafting or revising an AI/ML research paper in LaTeX, including structure, BibTeX, formatting, or academic-writing checks.

When should I use Academic Paper Helper?

Academic Paper Helper fits situations like: explicitly asks for help drafting; revising an AI/ML research paper in LaTeX; including structure; academic-writing checks.

How do I install Academic Paper Helper in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add cnfjlhj/ai-collab-playbook --skill academic-paper-helper -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/full/academic-paper-helper in cnfjlhj/ai-collab-playbook) into .claude/skills/academic-paper-helper in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Academic Paper Helper in Codex?

Run `npx skills add cnfjlhj/ai-collab-playbook --skill academic-paper-helper -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/full/academic-paper-helper in cnfjlhj/ai-collab-playbook) into .agents/skills/academic-paper-helper in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Academic Paper Helper 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 cnfjlhj/ai-collab-playbook --skill academic-paper-helper -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-paper-helper, .gemini/skills/academic-paper-helper, .github/skills/academic-paper-helper and .opencode/skills/academic-paper-helper in your project.

What does Academic Paper Helper need to run?

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

Does Academic Paper Helper access the network?

SKILL.md names 3 domains. As links in the text: overleaf.com, scholar.google.com and oeis.org. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Academic Paper Helper 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 Paper Helper use?

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

How many tokens does Academic Paper Helper use?

About 1.8k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 7.2k 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 Paper Helper?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Academic Paper Helper: Academic Paper Writing Pipeline (Imbad0202/academic-research-skills, 51k stars), Scholar Writing (catlog22/maestro-flow, 564 stars), Research Depth Control (BingHanOfUESTC/open_agent_team, 106 stars) and Paper Skill (cLin-c/paper-skill, 119 stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Academic Paper Helper?

cnfjlhj (a GitHub user) maintains it in cnfjlhj/ai-collab-playbook, which has 454 GitHub stars. The repository holds 17 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on September 14, 2026.

Source: cnfjlhj/ai-collab-playbook on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.