Agent skill

Research Paper Writer

by wentorai in wentorai/research-plugins

Guide for writing formal academic papers following IEEE and ACM standards

MITAuto-check passedResearch & Science

Install Research Paper Writer

skills CLI
$ npx skills add wentorai/research-plugins --skill research-paper-writer -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install wentorai/research-plugins research-paper-writer --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/composition/research-paper-writer .claude/skills/research-paper-writer && 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-paper-writer
GitHub stars
298
Used in
1 other repo
Token cost
~1.9k tokens
SKILL.md length
444 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
405
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Guide for writing formal academic papers following IEEE and ACM standards

  • Works in 4 steps: Context: One sentence establishing the… → Problem: One sentence stating the… → Approach: One sentence describing your… → …
  • Tasks that involve Citation management
  • SKILL.md covers Overview, Paper Structure, Section Writing Guidelines and Citation Formatting, plus 2 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Research Paper Writer is an agent skill from wentorai/research-plugins. Guide for writing formal academic papers following IEEE and ACM standards

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 Citation management. 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 Citation management

Example prompts

  • “/research-paper-writer”

Workflow steps

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

  1. Context: One sentence establishing the problem domain
  2. Problem: One sentence stating the specific gap or challenge
  3. Approach: One sentence describing your method/contribution
  4. Results: One sentence summarizing key findings with numbers

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 and markdown).

    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):

    • journals.ieeeauthorcenter.ieee.org
    • acm.org
    • dl.acm.org
    • ctan.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

Research Paper Writer loads about 1.9k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 24 tokens; SKILL.md has 444 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

The full file from wentorai/research-plugins at commit bf44b3c, republished under its MIT licence (© wentorai). 444 words, ~1,879 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/research-paper-writer/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
research-paper-writer
description
Guide for writing formal academic papers following IEEE and ACM standards

Research Paper Writer — IEEE/ACM Standards Guide

Overview

This skill guides the creation of formal academic papers for computer science and engineering venues, with a focus on IEEE and ACM formatting standards. It covers manuscript structure, citation practices, figure/table conventions, and submission preparation. Applicable to conference papers (6-10 pages), journal articles (12-20 pages), and workshop papers (4-6 pages).

Paper Structure

IEEE Format (Two-Column)
Title
Authors (Name, Affiliation, Email)
Abstract (150-250 words)
Index Terms (4-6 keywords)

I.   INTRODUCTION
II.  RELATED WORK
III. METHODOLOGY / PROPOSED APPROACH
IV.  EXPERIMENTAL SETUP
V.   RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
VI.  CONCLUSION
     ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
     REFERENCES
ACM Format (Two-Column, CCS Concepts)
Title
Authors (Name, Affiliation, Email, ORCID)
Abstract (150-250 words)
CCS Concepts (from ACM Computing Classification System)
Keywords (3-6 terms)

1  INTRODUCTION
2  BACKGROUND AND RELATED WORK
3  APPROACH / METHOD
4  EVALUATION
5  RESULTS
6  DISCUSSION
7  THREATS TO VALIDITY
8  CONCLUSION
   ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
   REFERENCES

Section Writing Guidelines

Abstract

Write the abstract last. Follow the 4-sentence pattern:

  1. Context: One sentence establishing the problem domain
  2. Problem: One sentence stating the specific gap or challenge
  3. Approach: One sentence describing your method/contribution
  4. Results: One sentence summarizing key findings with numbers
Example (IEEE style, ~180 words):
"Large language models have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in code
generation, yet their performance degrades significantly on domain-specific
APIs. This paper addresses the challenge of adapting LLMs to specialized
codebases without extensive fine-tuning. We propose RetrievalCoder, a
retrieval-augmented approach that indexes API documentation and retrieves
relevant context at inference time using semantic similarity. Experiments
on three enterprise codebases show that RetrievalCoder improves functional
correctness by 34.2% over the base model and 12.8% over few-shot prompting,
while reducing API hallucination rate from 47% to 8%."
Introduction (1.5-2 pages)

Structure as an inverted triangle:

  1. Broad context (1-2 paragraphs): Establish the research area
  2. Specific problem (1 paragraph): Narrow to your exact problem
  3. Limitations of existing work (1 paragraph): Why current solutions fall short
  4. Your contribution (1 paragraph): What you do differently
  5. Contribution list (bulleted): 3-4 concrete contributions
  6. Paper organization (1 sentence): "The remainder of this paper is organized as..."

Organize by theme, not chronologically:

markdown
## 2. Related Work

### 2.1 Retrieval-Augmented Generation
[Discuss RAG papers, position your work relative to them]

### 2.2 Code Generation with LLMs
[Discuss code LLM papers, explain what's different about your setting]

### 2.3 Domain-Specific Adaptation
[Discuss fine-tuning vs. prompting approaches]

Each paragraph should: (1) summarize the cited work, (2) state its limitation, (3) contrast with your approach.

Methodology (2-3 pages)
  • Start with a system overview figure (architecture diagram)
  • Use formal notation introduced in a "Preliminaries" subsection
  • Define each component with its own subsection
  • Include pseudocode (Algorithm environment) for complex procedures
  • Explain design choices with justification
Show full SKILL.md (199 more words)Show less
Experiments (2-3 pages)

Cover these elements systematically:

ElementWhat to Include
Research QuestionsRQ1, RQ2, RQ3 — one per aspect you evaluate
DatasetsName, size, source, preprocessing, train/test split
BaselinesEach baseline with citation and brief description
MetricsDefinition of each metric, why it's appropriate
ImplementationHardware, software versions, hyperparameters
ReproducibilityCode/data availability statement
Results Tables
latex
% IEEE style table
\begin{table}[t]
\caption{Comparison with baselines on CodeBench.}
\label{tab:main_results}
\centering
\begin{tabular}{lcccc}
\toprule
Method & Pass@1 & Pass@5 & API Acc. & Latency \\
\midrule
GPT-4 (zero-shot) & 42.3 & 61.7 & 53.1 & 2.1s \\
GPT-4 (few-shot)  & 55.8 & 72.4 & 71.2 & 2.3s \\
\textbf{Ours}      & \textbf{68.0} & \textbf{81.2} & \textbf{91.8} & 2.8s \\
\bottomrule
\end{tabular}
\end{table}

Table conventions:

  • Caption above the table (IEEE/ACM standard)
  • Bold the best result in each column
  • Use \toprule, \midrule, \bottomrule (booktabs) — no vertical lines
  • Include statistical significance indicators (†, *, **) with footnotes
Discussion

Address:

  1. Why does your method work? — Provide intuition and analysis
  2. When does it fail? — Failure case analysis builds credibility
  3. Ablation study — Remove components one at a time
  4. Threats to validity — Internal, external, construct validity

Citation Formatting

IEEE Style
latex
% Numeric citations in square brackets
As shown by Smith et al. \cite{smith2024}, ...
Several studies \cite{smith2024, jones2023, lee2025} have shown ...

% BibTeX entry
@inproceedings{smith2024,
  author    = {Smith, John and Doe, Jane},
  title     = {Paper Title Here},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of ICSE 2024},
  year      = {2024},
  pages     = {100--110},
  doi       = {10.1145/1234567.1234568}
}
ACM Style
latex
% Author-year or numeric depending on template
\citet{smith2024} showed that ...  % Smith et al. (2024)
\citep{smith2024}                  % (Smith et al., 2024)
Citation Best Practices
  • Cite 40-60 references for a conference paper, 60-100 for a journal
  • Include papers from the target venue (shows you know the community)
  • Cite recent work (at least 30% from last 2 years)
  • Always cite the original source, not a survey that mentions it
  • Use DOI links in bibliography entries for verifiability

Submission Checklist

markdown
## Pre-Submission Checks
- [ ] Paper fits within page limit (including references for ACM, excluding for IEEE)
- [ ] Abstract under 250 words
- [ ] All figures are vector graphics (PDF) or high-resolution (≥300 DPI)
- [ ] Figure/table captions are self-contained (understandable without reading text)
- [ ] All references are complete (no "et al." in BibTeX, no missing venues/years)
- [ ] No orphan sections (every section has ≥2 paragraphs)
- [ ] Supplementary material / appendix prepared if needed
- [ ] Anonymous version: no author names, no "our previous work [1]" self-citations
- [ ] Spell check and grammar check completed
- [ ] PDF metadata does not reveal author identity (for double-blind review)

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/composition/research-paper-writer 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 Research Paper Writer

What does Research Paper Writer do?

Guide for writing formal academic papers following IEEE and ACM standards. Research Paper Writer is an agent skill from wentorai/research-plugins.

When should I use Research Paper Writer?

Research Paper Writer fits situations like: tasks that involve Citation management.

How do I install Research Paper Writer in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Research Paper Writer in Codex?

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

Can I use Research Paper Writer 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 research-paper-writer -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-paper-writer, .gemini/skills/research-paper-writer, .github/skills/research-paper-writer and .opencode/skills/research-paper-writer in your project.

What does Research Paper Writer need to run?

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

Does Research Paper Writer access the network?

SKILL.md names 4 domains. As links in the text: journals.ieeeauthorcenter.ieee.org, acm.org, dl.acm.org and ctan.org. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Research Paper Writer 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 Paper Writer use?

Research Paper Writer 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 Research Paper Writer use?

About 1.9k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 7.5k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

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Who maintains Research Paper Writer?

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.