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WritingShell

Paper Writing

by SNL-UCSB

Paper Writing is a Writing skill for Claude Code, published by SNL-UCSB in paper-writing-skill.

182 stars11 forkson SNL-UCSB/paper-writing-skillAdded 2026/09/07+1% in starsRepository updated 2026/07/31
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Install Paper Writing
Copy Paper Writing 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/SNL-UCSB/paper-writing-skill ~/.claude/skills/paper-writing-skill

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/SNL-UCSB/paper-writing-skill.git

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

In this catalog

Source file
SKILL.md in SNL-UCSB/paper-writing-skill
Installs to
~/.claude/skills/paper-writing-skill
Collection
The only skill cataloged from this repository
Category
Writing — 1328 skills

What Paper Writing does

Paper Writing enforces a research-paper workflow, editorial rules, and style checks for drafting, revising, and compressing conference or journal manuscripts. Use it for sections, abstracts, rebuttals, camera-ready edits, and .tex-based papers.

Paper Writing is cataloged under Writing on DirSkills. Paper Writing comes from a repository tagged academic-writing, claude-code, paper-writing, phd and research.

Documentation

README

Paper Writing Skill

How This Skill Works

This skill encodes the writing methodology of the Systems and Networking Lab (SNL) at UC Santa Barbara, derived from forensic analysis of 6 papers (8 submissions), 7,600+ Overleaf edits, 100+ tex file versions, and 5 peer review processes. See The Paper Behind the Paper for the full analysis. It works out of the box — the default rules are calibrated and battle-tested.

Three Layers

  1. The pipeline (fixed): A five-stage writing workflow. Does not change between users or papers.

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

Frequently asked about Paper Writing

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