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paper-tex from scdenney/open-science-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add scdenney/open-science-skills/paper-tex@git:20261105.dee0bc5Pins git:20261105.dee0bc5 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- scdenney/open-science-skills
- Path
plugin/skills/paper-tex/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 8
- Latest version
- git:20261105.dee0bc5, committed Nov 5, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jun 4, 2026
- Size
- 14,372 bytes
- Repository stars
- 69
- License
- a license file GitHub does not identify
Typesets a working paper or journal submission in house-style LaTeX from Markdown, Word (.docx), TeX, ODT, RTF, or HTML. Converts with pandoc, wraps the body in an EB Garamond template, builds the PDF with latexmk, and sets journal-specific spacing, page limits, anonymization, disclosures, and citation style. Use to format or convert a paper to LaTeX, make a working paper, or prepare a submission to a named journal.
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
# Paper formatter (LaTeX) Turn a draft in any common format into a clean, house-style LaTeX paper and build the PDF. The mechanical work runs through a committed driver, `scripts/format_paper.py`: it detects the input format, converts the body with **pandoc**, wraps it in the EB Garamond template under `assets/`, and builds with **latexmk**. The house-specific finishing — captions with notes, disclosure sections, SI cross-references — is done by hand afterward, and the steps are below. The house style: 12pt EB Garamond, 1-inch margins, author-date citations (`apsr`), numbered sections with unnumbered subsections, a single-spaced title block, the introduction on its own page, figures and tables placed where they are written (`[H]`), and every exhibit carrying a title with an italic *Note:* beneath it (`\figcap`). Paths below are relative to this skill directory — the folder containing this SKILL.md. You know its absolute path from having just read this file; set `SKILL` to it once: ```bash SKILL=/path/to/.../skills/paper-tex # the directory this SKILL.md lives in ``` ## Step 0 — Settle the journal parameters …
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How to install
mdr add scdenney/open-science-skills/paper-tex@sha256:f17c34a10ceb138dThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261105.dee0bc5, 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 8 versions of this file, between Jun 4, 2026 and Nov 5, 2026, about one every 22 days.
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| git:20261105.dee0bc5 latest | 2026-11-05 | dee0bc5 | 14,372 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261008.697c89f | 2026-10-08 | 697c89f | 14,403 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260909.08bf795 | 2026-09-09 | 08bf795 | 15,296 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260905.c12f077 | 2026-09-05 | c12f077 | 15,290 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260613.728ea39 | 2026-06-13 | 728ea39 | 15,259 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260613.edcf406 | 2026-06-13 | edcf406 | 14,371 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260610.6572bfb | 2026-06-10 | 6572bfb | 12,407 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260604.9a6c8b9 | 2026-06-04 | 9a6c8b9 | 10,819 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (14372 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
scdenney/open-science-skills · 69 stars · license a license file GitHub does not identify · pushed 2026-11-05 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_qp5wycny3iyhkka3 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=scdenney/open-science-skills/paper-tex GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/f17c34a10ceb138d3a4af32addb7fb0a16d3397c9e52f89f277de805740b8b7b
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