Agent skill

Research Writing Literature

by hashgraph-online in hashgraph-online/awesome-codex-plugins

Write and revise rigorous research narratives, literature reviews, manuscript sections, citations, and figure discussions.

Apache-2.0Auto-check passedResearch & Science

Install Research Writing Literature

skills CLI
$ npx skills add hashgraph-online/awesome-codex-plugins --skill research-writing-literature -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install hashgraph-online/awesome-codex-plugins research-writing-literature --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/hashgraph-online/awesome-codex-plugins.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/plugins/hanhuark/mechanical-engineering-research-skill/skills/research-writing-literature .claude/skills/research-writing-literature && 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
research-writing-literature
GitHub stars
1.3k
Token cost
~1.1k tokens
SKILL.md length
519 words
Files
9 (incl. references)
Skills in repo
716
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
Apache-2.0

At a glance

Write and revise rigorous research narratives, literature reviews, manuscript sections, citations, and figure discussions.

  • Technical introductions
  • SKILL.md covers Purpose, Route To References, Introduction And Background and Citations And Synthesis, plus 2 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
  • Review articles

What it does

Research Writing Literature is an agent skill from hashgraph-online/awesome-codex-plugins. Write and revise rigorous research narratives, literature reviews, manuscript sections, citations, and figure discussions. Use for technical introductions, methods, results, discussions, review articles, abstracts, or related-work sections.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.1k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 10 other files, including reference files (for example `agents/openai.yaml`, `references/anti-formulaic-writing.md` and `references/han-hu-research-style.md`).

It sits in Research & Science, covering Literature review and Citation management. The repository describes itself as: A curated list of awesome OpenAI Codex / ChatGPT plugins, skills, and resources. The 1 Codex Marketplace. See live plugins at: https://hol.org/plugins/best-codex-plugins. The licence is Apache-2.0.

When your agent uses it

  • Technical introductions
  • Review articles
  • Related-work sections

Example prompts

  • “/research-writing-literature”

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 3e1456a. 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

Research Writing Literature loads about 1.1k tokens when it runs, and up to ~18k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 67 tokens; SKILL.md has 519 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~67
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.1k
With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them
~18k

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 hashgraph-online/awesome-codex-plugins at commit 3e1456a, republished under its Apache-2.0 licence (© hashgraph-online). 519 words, ~1,090 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/research-writing-literature/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 8 other files; get the full folder from GitHub.
name
research-writing-literature
description
Write and revise rigorous research narratives, literature reviews, manuscript sections, citations, and figure discussions. Use for technical introductions, methods, results, discussions, review articles, abstracts, or related-work sections.

Research Writing And Literature

Purpose

Build a research story rather than a sequence of paper summaries. Every paragraph needs a central topic, normally in its first sentence; each later sentence must develop, support, qualify, or transition from it.

When AI is used to draft or substantially revise the document, first use author-guided-ai-writing.md to obtain an author-approved story brief and claim-evidence map. Drafting and line editing do not replace those author decisions.

Before a substantial draft or structural revision, identify the reader, the decision or scientific understanding the section must support, the evidence that carries the central claim, and what the reader should know after the section. Write the structure from that reader-to-evidence path instead of filling a generic manuscript template.

Route To References

  • For critical literature synthesis, read references/literature-review.md.
  • For journal-paper structure and results-led storytelling, read references/paper-writing-style.md.
  • For section-specific technical writing, methods, DOE, and figure discussion, read references/technical-writing-analysis.md.
  • For equation explanations, claim-evidence checks, methods completeness, and figure or equation narratives, read references/technical-argument-audit.md before a final prose-only pass.
  • For a clarity pass focused on reader understanding rather than formulaic compression, read references/technical-prose-clarity.md.
  • When matching the calibrated research style and its evidence boundaries, read references/han-hu-research-style.md.
  • For a final pass against formulaic AI-like drafting habits, read references/anti-formulaic-writing.md.

Introduction And Background

Use the chain: importance and applications; state of the art; remaining issue; why it persists; the proposed innovation; and its likely significance. Do not claim novelty merely because no prior work exists. Identify why the missing work is challenging and how the approach resolves a meaningful barrier.

Citations And Synthesis

Use FirstAuthor et al. for a multi-author narrative citation unless the target format requires otherwise. State a paper's method and takeaway in one efficient sentence when possible; avoid a redundant second sentence that only repeats its result. Group background studies by mechanism, method, material, or evidence type, and place citations beside the claim they support. Do not attach a broad citation range to a sentence that conflates distinct categories.

After each source group, state the limitation, contradiction, or knowledge gap that motivates the next step. Include background references fairly across major theories and research groups; trace seminal work backward through its references and forward through citing work.

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Methods, Models, And Results

Methods must make the work reproducible: facility/model details, procedure, data reduction, uncertainty, assumptions, and justification. For results, use four levels: figure description, observation, physical explanation, and comparison with existing work. State whether agreement, disagreement, or a new regime is supported, and limit claims to the evidence.

Editorial Safeguards

Do not make abstracts into compressed result tables. Use only the quantitative anchors needed to convey the main result; prioritize the problem, gap, approach, central finding, and implication. Before delivery, make an editorial pass for unfamiliar or undefined labels, repeated vague forms of enable and establish, unusually, together, unnecessary hyphenated compounds, dash forms, catalog-like headings, and modifier-heavy sentences. Use the rules in references/anti-formulaic-writing.md; review each occurrence in context rather than applying blind word bans or treating a style signal as authorship evidence. For a Word deliverable without a controlling template, use Times New Roman 11 pt, black text, single spacing, and Normal margins.

© hashgraph-online, Apache-2.0. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

SKILL.md and 8 other files (references) in plugins/hanhuark/mechanical-engineering-research-skill/skills/research-writing-literature of hashgraph-online/awesome-codex-plugins.

  • SKILL.md
  • agents/openai.yaml
  • references/anti-formulaic-writing.md
  • references/han-hu-research-style.md
  • references/literature-review.md
  • references/paper-writing-style.md
  • references/technical-argument-audit.md
  • references/technical-prose-clarity.md
  • references/technical-writing-analysis.md

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 3e1456a

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Questions about Research Writing Literature

What does Research Writing Literature do?

Write and revise rigorous research narratives, literature reviews, manuscript sections, citations, and figure discussions. Research Writing Literature is an agent skill from hashgraph-online/awesome-codex-plugins. Write and revise rigorous research narratives, literature reviews, manuscript sections, citations, and figure discussions.

When should I use Research Writing Literature?

Research Writing Literature fits situations like: technical introductions; review articles; related-work sections.

How do I install Research Writing Literature in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add hashgraph-online/awesome-codex-plugins --skill research-writing-literature -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (plugins/hanhuark/mechanical-engineering-research-skill/skills/research-writing-literature in hashgraph-online/awesome-codex-plugins) into .claude/skills/research-writing-literature in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Research Writing Literature in Codex?

Run `npx skills add hashgraph-online/awesome-codex-plugins --skill research-writing-literature -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (plugins/hanhuark/mechanical-engineering-research-skill/skills/research-writing-literature in hashgraph-online/awesome-codex-plugins) into .agents/skills/research-writing-literature in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Research Writing Literature 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 hashgraph-online/awesome-codex-plugins --skill research-writing-literature -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/research-writing-literature, .gemini/skills/research-writing-literature, .github/skills/research-writing-literature and .opencode/skills/research-writing-literature in your project.

What does Research Writing Literature need to run?

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

Does Research Writing Literature 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 Research Writing Literature 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 Research Writing Literature use?

Research Writing Literature is published under the Apache-2.0 licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Research Writing Literature use?

About 1.1k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 4.4k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full. Its references folder adds about 17k tokens, read only when the agent opens those files.

What are the alternatives to Research Writing Literature?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Research Writing Literature: Systematic Review Screener (Imbad0202/academic-research-skills, 51k stars), Literature Review (neflibata-feng/MyArxiv-Agent, 126 stars), Preprint Search on bioRxiv (LigphiDonk/Oh-my--paper, 739 stars) and Academic Paper Writing Pipeline (Imbad0202/academic-research-skills, 51k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Research Writing Literature?

hashgraph-online (a GitHub organization) maintains it in hashgraph-online/awesome-codex-plugins, which has 1,267 GitHub stars. The repository holds 716 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 10, 2026.

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