Outline Agent

Outline Agent is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by Ar9av in PaperOrchestra.

644 stars91 forkson Ar9av/PaperOrchestraAdded 2026/08/24+1% in starsRepository updated 2026/08/09

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Install Outline Agent

Copy Outline Agent 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/Ar9av/PaperOrchestra/tree/main/skills/outline-agent ~/.claude/skills/outline-agent

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/Ar9av/PaperOrchestra.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: skills/outline-agent/SKILL.md in Ar9av/PaperOrchestra
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/outline-agent
Collection: One of 9 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 2451 skills

What Outline Agent does

Outline Agent converts idea notes, experiment logs, a LaTeX template, and conference guidelines into a strict JSON paper outline. It is used when drafting the structure, plotting plan, related work plan, and section plan for PaperOrchestra Step 1.

Outline Agent is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. Outline Agent comes from a repository tagged agentic-ai, ai-research, anthropic, antigravity and arxiv.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Outline Agent (Step 1)

Faithful implementation of the Outline Agent from PaperOrchestra (Song et al., 2026, arXiv:2604.05018, App. F.1, pp. 40–44).

Cost: 1 LLM call.

Your task

Read four input files from the workspace and produce a single JSON object at workspace/outline.json with three top-level keys:

plotting_plan — array of figure objects
intro_related_work_plan — object with introduction_strategy and related_work_strategy
section_plan — array of section objects, each with section_title and subsections[]

How to do it

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

Frequently asked about Outline Agent

What else does Ar9av publish alongside Outline Agent?
Outline Agent is one of 9 skills that DirSkills catalogs from Ar9av/PaperOrchestra, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Agent Research Aggregator, Content Refinement Agent and Literature Review Agent. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Outline Agent does, and is maintained by Ar9av in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the Ar9av/PaperOrchestra page.
How does Outline Agent compare to other AI Engineering skills?
Outline Agent ranks #1863 by stars among the 2451 AI Engineering skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Architecture Decision Records, AI-First Engineering and Agentic OS. 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 Outline Agent against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.