Paper Writer

Paper Writer is a Writing skill for Claude Code, published by ai4s-research in ai4s-skills.

204 stars19 forkson ai4s-research/ai4s-skillsAdded 2026/09/05Repository updated 2026/07/28

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Install Paper Writer

Copy Paper Writer 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/ai4s-research/ai4s-skills/tree/main/skills/paper-writer ~/.claude/skills/paper-writer

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/ai4s-research/ai4s-skills.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: skills/paper-writer/SKILL.md in ai4s-research/ai4s-skills
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/paper-writer
Collection: One of 7 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Writing — 1227 skills

What Paper Writer does

Paper Writer builds a publication-style research paper on a specific topic, including citations, figures, sections, and PDF output. It is used when an agent needs to produce a complete paper from scratch or format provided results into a manuscript.

Paper Writer is cataloged under Writing on DirSkills. Paper Writer comes from a repository tagged agent-skills, ai-agent, ai-for-science, ai-scientist and ai4s.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

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/:

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

Frequently asked about Paper Writer

What else does ai4s-research publish alongside Paper Writer?
Paper Writer is one of 7 skills that DirSkills catalogs from ai4s-research/ai4s-skills, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include AI4S Agent, Experiment Suite and Integrity Auditor. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Paper Writer does, and is maintained by ai4s-research in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the ai4s-research/ai4s-skills page.
How does Paper Writer compare to other Writing skills?
Paper Writer ranks #984 by stars among the 1227 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 Paper Writer against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.