Research Writing Skill

Install

Works in

• Claude Code
• OpenCode
• Koda
• Coddy

npx skillfoxx add skills/research-writing-skill

What it does

Research Writing Skill is a set of 30 prompt templates for academic writing, packaged as a skill. Each template sits in its own file under references/prompts and loads on demand, so the agent does not hold all thirty in context at once. The skill triggers on requests to write or polish a paper, reply to reviewers and prepare a grant proposal. The templates follow the stages of paper work. For literature there are a summary, a comparison of papers and a search for a research gap. For text there are an outline, section expansion, an abstract, an introduction and methods. A separate group handles language: translation between Chinese and English, editing in both languages, shortening and expanding. Three more templates check logic and remove signs of AI-written prose. For figures there are captions for figures and tables, an architecture diagram and a chart type recommendation, and for results an analysis of the experiment. At the final stages the skill helps simulate a peer review, write a rebuttal and a cover letter. It also prepares a grant proposal, a research plan and the outline of a talk. Two Python scripts escape LaTeX special characters and convert heading case.

Who it is for. For graduate students, lecturers and researchers who write and edit papers, grant proposals and reviewer replies together with an agent.

Example request

Write a simulated review of my paper for IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, then help me answer the comments point by point

Limitations

• The description, trigger words and templates are written in Chinese and English. The skill suits authors who work in those two languages.
• For end-to-end work on a paper you call the templates stage by stage, and the skill has no single flow from review to submission.
• The contents are limited to texts and two helper scripts, with no checks of citations or journal formatting.
• Experiments, numbers and conclusions must be your own: the author allows AI to help only with phrasing.
• The license is MIT: if you redistribute the templates, keep the author's name and the license text.

How to disable. Delete the research-writing folder from your agent's skills directory and restart the agent.

README in short

The page groups the templates by work stage and gives three examples: a paper summary, a translation and a simulated review. Next come three ways to install, tips for combining templates and the project layout, and the end explains how to add your own template.