paper-writer
Use when the user wants a complete, publication-grade research paper on a specific topic — produces 200+ real citations, 4–8 publication-grade figures, and 7 sections of substantive prose compiled to PDF in one pass. No skeleton stage.
Profile →npx skills add ai4s-research/ai4s-skills --skill paper-writer --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# Paper Writer ## Overview End-to-end research paper builder. **Single stage, full quality from the start** — there is no skeleton phase to enrich later. The agent (Claude Code / Cursor / Aider / Codex / …) does the writing using its own tools (WebFetch, WebSearch, Write, Bash). This skill has no Python runtime; it is purely a procedure + reference playbooks + a LaTeX template. The substantive work is decomposed into reference playbooks under `references/`: | Reference | Topic | |---|---| | `references/00-incremental-execution.md` | how to actually do this without losing work: batch sizes, persistence, resume — **read first** | | `references/01-bibliography-expansion.md` | grow `bibliography.bib` to 200+ real entries via WebFetch/WebSearch | | `references/02-figures-publication-grade.md` | TikZ / matplotlib / seaborn / multi-panel figure recipes | | `references/03-section-playbook.md` | per-section structure, length, citation density | | `references/04-layout-discipline.md` | tables, figures, floats, cross-refs, author + disclosure footnote | | `references/05-quality-gate.md` | self-check before delivery (G1–G8 hard, S1–S4 soft) | | `references/06-experiment-provenance.md` | honest
- Overview
- When to Use
- When NOT to Use
- Workflow
- Step 1 — Understand requirements
- Step 2 — Set up the run directory
- Step 3 — Build the paper (REQUIRED — this is the whole job)
- Step 4 — Deliver
- Cross-skill data flow (path convention)
- Important rules
mkdir -p "$RUN/sections" "$RUN/figures" cp -r templates/paper/. "$RUN/" ln -sfn "$TS" "output/paper-writer/$SLUG/latest" cd "$RUN" pdflatex -interaction=nonstopmode main.tex bibtex main
What does the paper-writer skill do?
Use when the user wants a complete, publication-grade research paper on a specific topic — produces 200+ real citations, 4–8 publication-grade figures, and 7 sections of substantive prose compiled to PDF in one pass. No skeleton stage.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add ai4s-research/ai4s-skills --skill paper-writer --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From ai4s-research/ai4s-skills, a repository with 163 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.