academic-paper-drafting SKILL.md skillA
academic-paper-drafting from fabioc-aloha/alex_skill_mall is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add fabioc-aloha/alex_skill_mall/academic-paper-drafting@git:20260728.80a7ab6Pins git:20260728.80a7ab6 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- fabioc-aloha/alex_skill_mall
- Path
plugins/academic-research/academic-paper-drafting/skills/academic-paper-drafting/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260728.80a7ab6, committed Jul 28, 2026
- Size
- 19,067 bytes
- Repository stars
- 5
- License
- MIT
End-to-end academic paper drafting for CHI, HBR, journals, and conferences with venue-specific templates, drafting workflows, and revision strategies.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# Academic Paper Drafting Skill
> Turn research into published scholarship. From blank page to accepted manuscript.
This skill provides structured workflows for drafting academic papers, with venue-specific guidance for HCI conferences (CHI), business publications (HBR), and academic journals (Cognitive Systems Research, Minds & Machines).
## Drafting Philosophy
### The Academic Writing Paradox
| Challenge | Reality | Strategy |
|-----------|---------|----------|
| "I need to read more first" | Reading is procrastination | Write to discover what you don't know |
| "I need the perfect first sentence" | First drafts are meant to be bad | Start with the section you know best |
| "I'll write when I have time" | Time expands to fill available space | Write in focused sprints |
| "It needs to be original" | Synthesis is originality | Combine existing ideas in new ways |
### The Write-to-Think Method
```
Messy Draft → Clarity → Structure → Polish → Submit
↑ ↓
└────── Reviewer Feedback ───────────┘
```
**Key insight**: Writing IS thinking. You don't figure out your argument first and then write it — you figure it out BY writing it.
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How to install
mdr add fabioc-aloha/alex_skill_mall/academic-paper-drafting@sha256:d080cab4ffb09436The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260728.80a7ab6, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Jul 28, 2026.
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- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
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Source
fabioc-aloha/alex_skill_mall · 5 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-19 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_o4waao4kfgdln5ec GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=fabioc-aloha/alex_skill_mall/academic-paper-drafting GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/d080cab4ffb09436c8089fd0b5d352b87cb85a95e4720035c1b78f3ffca49992
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