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Best scientific writing skills for Claude Code, Codex and other agents.
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| # | Skill | Repository | Stars | Used in | Tokens | Auto-check | Licence | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Composes, revises or audits research proposals and opening reports through an evidence-first state machine with argument maps, section contracts and dynamic expert reviewers. | Yuan1z0825/ | 46k | 2 repos | ~1.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 2 | Reference guidance for checking every citation in academic writing against canonical sources such as DOI, arXiv, CrossRef and Semantic Scholar, to catch fake or wrong references. | Galaxy-Dawn/ | 5.7k | 3 repos | ~1.9k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 14 days ago |
| 3 | Creates, revises, audits and exports manuscript-ready scientific figures in Python or R, and routes AI-generated graphical abstracts to a separate workflow. | Yuan1z0825/ | 46k | — | ~2.9k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | today |
| 4 | Finds papers in OpenAlex, PubMed and Google Scholar, turns DOIs, PMIDs and arXiv IDs into clean BibTeX, and validates citations for a manuscript or thesis. | K-Dense-AI/ | 2.4k | 2 repos | ~3.9k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | 7 days ago |
| 5 | Systematic writing framework for philosophy and interdisciplinary academic papers from optimized outline to submission-ready manuscript. | lishix520/ | 1.4k | 2 repos | ~6.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 9 mo ago |
| 6 | Runs a 12-agent pipeline that plans, drafts, cites, reviews and formats academic papers, with modes for revision, rebuttals, abstracts and citation checks. | Imbad0202/ | 51k | — | ~16k | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | 4 days ago |
| 7 | Supplies LaTeX templates and formatting rules for journals, conferences, posters, and grant proposals, then can check a draft against them. | davila7/ | 32k | 9 repos | ~5.1k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | today |
| 8 | Simulates a journal peer review of a manuscript with a five-seat reviewer panel, an editorial synthesizer and several review modes. | Imbad0202/ | 51k | — | ~11k | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | 4 days ago |
| 9 | Covers publication-ready matplotlib figures for academic papers, slides, and reports—bars, trends, scatter, heatmaps, and multi-panel layouts—with… | ChenLiu-1996/ | 8.1k | — | ~557 | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | yesterday |
| 10 | Pre-pipeline aggregator that scans AI agent cache directories (.claude, .cursor, .antigravity, .openclaw) or any user-specified directory for experimentation logs, extracts insights and numeric… | Ar9av/ | 676 | 2 repos | ~3.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | 15 days ago |
| 11 | Improve the clarity and voice of AI-assisted academic writing (papers, theses, rebuttals) and funding proposals (NSF Project Summary/Description, NIH Specific Aims): preserve scholarly conventions… | AIScientists-Dev/ | 1.8k | 1 repo | ~4.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 3 mo ago |
| 12 | Orchestrates a ten-stage academic workflow from research to finished manuscript, including integrity checks, two rounds of peer review and revision. | Imbad0202/ | 51k | — | ~15k | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | 4 days ago |
| 13 | 科研论文写作助手,提供 30 个 Prompt 模板覆盖论文写作全流程. An agent skill from alfonso0512/research-writing-skill. | alfonso0512/ | 486 | 1 repo | ~818 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 2 mo ago |
| 14 | Structures benchmark and evaluation papers around five pillars, with a completeness audit, an Introduction logic chain, a section skeleton and a pre-submission checklist. | HKUSTDial/ | 8.4k | — | ~2.8k | Automated safety check: Pass | CC-BY-4.0 | 1 mo ago |
| 15 | A router skill that sends academic work such as literature reviews, drafting, citation checks, peer review and revision to the right workflow in the ARS suite. | Imbad0202/ | 12k | — | ~12k | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | 3 days ago |
| 16 | 学术论文写作检查与优化助手。基于 MLNLP-World 社区整理的论文写作技巧,帮助检查和优化学术论文。Use when: (1) 检查论文 LaTeX 格式和排版, (2) 优化公式符号使用, (3) 改进图表设计, (4) 润色英文学术表达, (5) 检查参考文献格式, (6) 投稿前终稿检查, (7) 用户询问论文写作技巧或规范。 | MLNLP-World/ | 4.7k | — | ~630 | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | 11 days ago |
| 17 | 17.Econ Write Expert economics paper writing assistant synthesizing advice from 50+ top guides by Cochrane, McCloskey, Shapiro, Head, Bellemare, Goldin, Glaeser, Kremer, and other leading economists. | hanlulong/ | 644 | 2 repos | ~14k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 2 mo ago |
| 18 | Stops defensive writing across the entire paper lifecycle — writing, revising, cutting, and organizing experiments. | Adkid-Zephyr/ | 2.3k | 1 repo | ~1.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 19 | Audits or rewrites the statistical reporting in a manuscript: experimental units, replication, tests, uncertainty and figure legends, without inventing missing details. | Yuan1z0825/ | 46k | 2 repos | ~2.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | today |
| 20 | Rewrites a math modeling competition paper into an English EI conference submission, using a bundled IEEE LaTeX template, with evidence tracked back to the original paper. | jihe520/ | 6.2k | — | ~688 | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | 4 days ago |
| 21 | Chains research-refine and experiment-plan to turn a vague research direction into a focused proposal and a claim-driven experiment roadmap. | zjYao36/ | 128 | 6 repos | ~1.4k | Automated safety check: Notes | No licence | 6 mo ago |
| 22 | Dynamic academic writing skill generator. An agent skill from WantongC/journal-adapt-writing-skill. | WantongC/ | 793 | 1 repo | ~5.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 4 mo ago |
| 23 | 23.Paperjury Three modes for CS-conference papers (CVPR/ICCV/ECCV vision, ACL/EMNLP/NAACL NLP, ICLR/NeurIPS/ICML/AAAI ML). | Spark-To-Paper-Skills/ | 1.2k | — | ~5.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 1 mo ago |
| 24 | An 18-agent pipeline that turns one topic line into a drafted research paper, literature review, or thesis chapter. | federicodeponte/ | 506 | — | ~8.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | 5 days ago |
| 25 | Indexes research papers on the Hugging Face Hub from arXiv, links them to models and datasets, claims authorship and generates markdown research articles from templates. | huggingface/ | 11k | 5 repos | ~4.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | 6 days ago |
| 26 | Drafts the Introduction of a technical paper as six paragraphs of flowing prose, positioning the work and matching contributions to challenges, with an outline on request. | HKUSTDial/ | 8.4k | — | ~2.4k | Automated safety check: Pass | CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0 | 1 mo ago |
| 27 | Writes, restructures, reviews and polishes the rationale section of NSFC research grant applications in LaTeX, with backups and a diff before every write. | huangwb8/ | 2.9k | — | ~945 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 3 days ago |
| 28 | Fills an existing LaTeX project with sample sections, tables and figure narratives, protecting the template structure and previewing before writing. | huangwb8/ | 2.9k | 1 repo | ~744 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 3 days ago |
| 29 | Draft, revise, and audit scientific manuscripts or reports with explicit evidence provenance, reporting-guideline coverage, authorship accountability, confidentiality controls, and local consistency… | K-Dense-AI/ | 2.4k | 2 repos | ~3.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 7 days ago |
| 30 | Builds an academic conference poster as a single HTML and CSS file with measurement-based gates, real paper figures and a print-ready PDF rendered through headless Chromium. | wanshuiyin/ | 17k | 1 repo | ~4.5k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | today |
| 31 | Edits drafts to strip needless caveats, hedges and disclaimers while keeping the limits that matter for accuracy, ethics, law, safety and method. | Kiterlin/ | 815 | — | ~3.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 6 days ago |
| 32 | Industrial-grade math modeling contest agent for CUMCM, 51MCM, and MCM/ICM. | xuec699-sudo/ | 245 | — | ~3.7k | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | 4 mo ago |
| 33 | 论文写作、修改、压缩和实验组织全流程中阻止【防御性写作】。把论文视为一场学术发布会, 而不是项目总结、实验日志或自我审查报告:识别这项工作最值得发表的价值,围绕它建立 最有利、最完整、最有说服力的叙事。不平均展示、不主动示弱、不写实验流水账、不替审稿人 攻击自己。 | Adkid-Zephyr/ | 2.3k | 1 repo | ~535 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 34 | A skill your agent uses when asked to review, edit, or improve the writing quality of a scientific or engineering manuscript. | labarba/ | 850 | — | ~2.4k | Automated safety check: Pass | CC-BY-4.0 | 2 mo ago |
| 35 | Turns pasted peer-review comments into a per-concern rebuttal plan, with reviewer mindset matching and strategy priorities, but not the final rebuttal text. | HKUSTDial/ | 8.4k | — | ~1.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | 1 mo ago |
| 36 | Core skill for the deep research and writing tool. An agent skill from neflibata-feng/MyArxiv-Agent. | neflibata-feng/ | 126 | 18 repos | ~8.4k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | 3 days ago |
| 37 | Recommends journals for a manuscript by filtering a bundled impact-factor catalog, verifying scope and quality online, and writing a ranked Markdown report. | huangwb8/ | 2.9k | — | ~1.7k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 3 days ago |
| 38 | Writes Chinese and English abstracts for NSFC grant applications, with a recommended title and five alternatives, within set character limits. | huangwb8/ | 2.9k | 1 repo | ~1.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 3 days ago |
| 39 | Prepare journal manuscripts, conference papers, research posters, and grant documents using venue-specific formatting guidance and bundled LaTeX scaffolds. | K-Dense-AI/ | 2.4k | 2 repos | ~2.9k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 7 days ago |
| 40 | Verifies that every reference in a manuscript is real, correctly identified and actually supports its claim, and produces a citation registry for typesetting. | Light0305/ | 640 | — | ~3.4k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 3 mo ago |
| 41 | Drafts and revises academic prose in the author's voice, repairs sentence flow, traces systems-paper claims to evidence and prepares reviewer responses. | donghuixin/ | 496 | — | ~616 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 24 days ago |
| 42 | Drafts the research significance section of an NSFC grant application from your project inputs, backed by searched policy documents and statistics. | HuiyuLi-2000/ | 428 | 1 repo | ~790 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 3 mo ago |
| 43 | Runs a mathematical proof project as a stateful pipeline of run directories: a local attempt first, then a manual GPT Pro handoff package, with an optional DeepSeek audit. | wanshuiyin/ | 17k | 1 repo | ~4.7k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 44 | Helps draft, diagnose, review and revise social science papers, from topic and research question to literature review, citation risks and pre-submission checks. | fakerqwq/ | 367 | — | ~7k | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | 4 mo ago |
| 45 | Systematic framework for evaluating scholarly and research work based on the ScholarEval methodology. | jimmc414/ | 594 | 2 repos | ~2.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | 3 days ago |
| 46 | Guides pre-writing planning for academic papers with 4 structured steps: story design (task-challenge-insight-contribution-advantage), experiment planning (comparisons + ablations), figure design… | EvoScientist/ | 474 | 3 repos | ~2.4k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | 6 days ago |
| 47 | Builds a single-file HTML survey paper on an AI or ML topic from a research bundle the agent curates, with prose and SVG figures written by Kimi K2.6. | dair-ai/ | 614 | 2 repos | ~2.1k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | 2 mo ago |
| 48 | Revise Chinese or English academic writing for lower unnecessary textual overlap while preserving meaning, evidence, numbers, equations, terminology, and citations. | lin1111-1/ | 102 | — | ~1.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 26 days ago |
Questions, answered from the data.
What is the best scientific writing skill?
Researchwrite Proposal Pipeline from Yuan1z0825/nature-skills ranks first of the 258 scientific writing skills listed here, with the highest score: its repository has 46k GitHub stars, 2 other GitHub owners carry a copy, its SKILL.md loads about 1.1k tokens and it passes the automated safety check with no findings. Next come Citation Verification Guide and Nature-Style Scientific Figures.
Which scientific writing skills are official?
2 of the 258 scientific writing skills are official, published by the vendor's own GitHub organization: Hugging Face Paper Publisher and Arxiv Search.
How are these skills ranked?
By Skill Navigator score, which combines the GitHub stars of the skill's repository (shared across that repo's skills and discounted for large collections), how many other GitHub owners carry a copy of the skill, and automated SKILL.md quality checks, minus penalties for safety-check warnings and for each further skill from the same repository. Skills that fail the safety check are not listed.
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