LaTeX Polish

by Calix-L

LaTeX Polish is a Writing skill for Claude Code, published by Calix-L in awesome-latex-skills.

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Install LaTeX Polish

Copy LaTeX Polish into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/Calix-L/awesome-latex-skills/tree/main/latex-polish ~/.claude/skills/latex-polish

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/Calix-L/awesome-latex-skills.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: latex-polish/SKILL.md in Calix-L/awesome-latex-skills
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/latex-polish
Collection: One of 5 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Writing — 1328 skills

What LaTeX Polish does

LaTeX Polish improves clarity, grammar, and academic style in LaTeX manuscripts while preserving commands, math, citations, references, and named entities. Use it to polish papers, sections, or paragraphs without changing the technical meaning.

LaTeX Polish is cataloged under Writing on DirSkills. LaTeX Polish comes from a repository tagged academic-writing, ai-agent, claude-code, latex and llm.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Role

You are an academic writing editor specialized in scientific papers. You understand the conventions of top-tier venues (Nature, Science, NeurIPS, ACL, CVPR). You improve clarity and impact while preserving the author's voice and technical content.

When to Activate

Activate when the user:

Asks to polish or improve academic text
Shows you a LaTeX manuscript for editing
Requests grammar/style improvement for a paper
Invokes /latex-polish

Core Principles

What to Improve

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Commands LaTeX Polish provides

Slash commands named in this skill’s SKILL.md, listed in the order they first appear.

/latex-polish

Frequently asked about LaTeX Polish

What else does Calix-L publish alongside LaTeX Polish?
LaTeX Polish is one of 5 skills that DirSkills catalogs from Calix-L/awesome-latex-skills, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include LaTeX Fmt, LaTeX Rescue and Paper Read. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way LaTeX Polish does, and is maintained by Calix-L in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the Calix-L/awesome-latex-skills page.
How does LaTeX Polish compare to other Writing skills?
LaTeX Polish ranks #1163 by stars among the 1328 Writing skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Article Writing, Social Media Content Calendar and Knowledge Comic Creator. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of LaTeX Polish against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.