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academic-paper-polish

Skill56 starsChanged 3 months agoMITView on GitHub

Polish academic and research writing for clarity, structure, terminology, argumentation, and cautious claims without inventing evidence or citations.

The file

We split this skill into the rules it gives an agent

3 rules. About 0 are common, 3 are distinctive, and 0 are very specific to this project.

  • ≈0

    Common · estimate

    Many files like this have a rule of this kind.

  • ≈3

    Distinctive · estimate

    This author's own choices. Worth a look.

  • 0

    Very specific

    Tied to their project's names, files or tools. Probably skip.

  • Common
  • Distinctive
  • Very specific
  1. Distinctive:

    Check tools, packages, credentials, network access, and runtime capabilities before execution.

    line 25
  2. Distinctive:

    Do not fabricate experiments, results, references, reviewer comments, or statistical significance.

    line 48
  3. Distinctive:

    Keep author voice when the user supplies a style sample.

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≈ “Common” is an estimate: at least 1 in 5 of the 350,495 skill files we read have a rule of the same kind, not the same words. “Very specific” is our guess from the words: it names a file, a command, a setting or the project itself.

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Files
SKILL.md

Rylai Codex-Hermes-Claude Edition | Original portable workflow by Rylai

Runtime Compatibility

  • Codex: install under ~/.agents/skills/academic-paper-polish.
  • Hermes: install under ~/.hermes/skills/academic-paper-polish or expose the bundle through skills.external_dirs.
  • Claude Code: install under ~/.claude/skills/academic-paper-polish or <project>/.claude/skills/academic-paper-polish.
  • Claude.ai and Cowork: upload and enable the matching per-skill ZIP.
  • Resolve bundled files relative to this skill directory; do not depend on paths from another machine.
  • Check tools, packages, credentials, network access, and runtime capabilities before execution.

Academic Paper Polish

Improve an academic draft without changing its scientific meaning.

Workflow

  1. Identify the field, venue, audience, manuscript section, and requested level of editing.
  2. Preserve claims, equations, variable names, citations, and technical terminology.
  3. Improve argument order, paragraph logic, transitions, concision, and hedging.
  4. Flag claims that need evidence instead of inventing sources.
  5. Return either tracked suggestions, a revised passage, or both, according to the request.
  6. Perform a final consistency check for abbreviations, tense, terminology, figure references, and citation style.

Bundled References

  • references/section-phrases.md: section-specific rhetorical patterns.
  • references/vocabulary.md: precise academic wording and weak-phrase replacements.
  • references/ai-polish.md: reusable editing prompts and verification passes.

Boundaries

  • Do not fabricate experiments, results, references, reviewer comments, or statistical significance.
  • Distinguish language polishing from substantive scientific review.
  • Keep author voice when the user supplies a style sample.

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