paper-structure SKILL.md skillA
paper-structure from uchicago-dsi/ai-sci-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add uchicago-dsi/ai-sci-skills/paper-structure@git:20261104.de003c4Pins git:20261104.de003c4 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- uchicago-dsi/ai-sci-skills
- Path
skills/paper-structure/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 7
- Latest version
- git:20261104.de003c4, committed Nov 4, 2026
- First version recorded
- Sep 21, 2026
- Size
- 12,595 bytes
- Repository stars
- 20
- License
- MIT
Organize a scientific manuscript for a specific venue: fix the claim it argues, load the venue's own section skeleton and limits, budget words before drafting, and keep each section doing only its own job. Use when planning, drafting, restructuring, or auditing a paper, abstract, or rebuttal, or when deciding what belongs in which section or what to cut to fit a limit.
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 structure Organization, not sentences. This skill decides what goes where and how much room it gets. For how a sentence sounds, use `humanize` with the register the venue file names. For whether a number is trustworthy, use `sensemaking`. For whether a claim outruns its evidence, use `skeptical-labmate`. Structure is not universal. A clinical physics manuscript puts Methods before Results and weaves prior work through the Introduction and Discussion; a machine learning conference paper gives Related Work its own section and wants a reproducibility statement; some high-profile journals put Methods last. So the skeleton comes from the venue, never from habit. ## Start by loading the venue Read `venues/<venue>.md` before anything else. If the venue has no file, write one from `venues/_template.md` first — it takes fifteen minutes and every later decision depends on it. If the venue is genuinely undecided, pick the most likely one, say so, and expect to restructure. Check the `verified` date in the file. Limits and required sections change between cycles. If it is more than a year old, confirm the numbers against the venue's own page before trusting them for a submission. …
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How to install
mdr add uchicago-dsi/ai-sci-skills/paper-structure@sha256:08f4649d7c12646fThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261104.de003c4, 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 7 versions of this file, between Sep 21, 2026 and Nov 4, 2026, about one every 7 days.
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| git:20261104.de003c4 latest | 2026-11-04 | de003c4 | 12,595 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261002.53b195a | 2026-10-02 | 53b195a | 13,676 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260921.27eae4c | 2026-09-21 | 27eae4c | 12,474 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260921.f2958bc | 2026-09-21 | f2958bc | 12,285 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260921.426e736 | 2026-09-21 | 426e736 | 11,241 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260921.fcfac53 | 2026-09-21 | fcfac53 | 10,001 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260921.2737c5e | 2026-09-21 | 2737c5e | 7,217 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 (12595 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
uchicago-dsi/ai-sci-skills · 20 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-07 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_zohrt5xwb7glau34 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=uchicago-dsi/ai-sci-skills/paper-structure GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/08f4649d7c12646f83624462a39550033c235cbc7aea5450bb61b2d8076c74c6
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