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By brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills (GitHub) · research · 5,016 stars · scanned at commit 8684584
11 paper templates skills. Trigger: starting a new paper, formatting for submission, venue-specific layouts. Design: ready-to-use templates for arXiv preprint, conferences, thesis, and posters.
Works with any agent that supports SKILL.md skills.
What this skill can do
Runs commands on your computer
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- skills/43-wentorai-research-plugins/skills/writing/templates/elegant-paper-template/SKILL.md, line 23
git clone https://github.com/ElegantLaTeX/ElegantPaper.git - skills/43-wentorai-research-plugins/skills/writing/templates/graphical-abstract-guide/SKILL.md, line 103
brew install --cask inkscape # macOS - skills/43-wentorai-research-plugins/skills/writing/templates/graphical-abstract-guide/SKILL.md, line 159
inkscape input.svg --export-type=png --export-dpi=300 --export-filename=output.png - skills/43-wentorai-research-plugins/skills/writing/templates/scientific-article-pdf/SKILL.md, line 34
wget https://www.ieee.org/content/dam/ieee-org/ieee/web/org/pubs/conference-latex-template_10-17-19.zip - skills/43-wentorai-research-plugins/skills/writing/templates/scientific-article-pdf/SKILL.md, line 75
pdflatex sample.tex - skills/43-wentorai-research-plugins/skills/writing/templates/scientific-article-pdf/SKILL.md, line 235
latexmk -pdf paper.tex - skills/43-wentorai-research-plugins/skills/writing/templates/sjtuthesis-guide/SKILL.md, line 29
brew install --cask mactex - skills/43-wentorai-research-plugins/skills/writing/templates/sjtuthesis-guide/SKILL.md, line 40
git clone https://github.com/sjtug/SJTUThesis.git - skills/43-wentorai-research-plugins/skills/writing/templates/sjtuthesis-guide/SKILL.md, line 50
latexmk -xelatex main.tex - skills/43-wentorai-research-plugins/skills/writing/templates/sjtuthesis-guide/SKILL.md, line 161
git init - skills/43-wentorai-research-plugins/skills/writing/templates/sjtuthesis-guide/SKILL.md, line 169
latexmk -xelatex -pvc main.tex - skills/43-wentorai-research-plugins/skills/writing/templates/sjtuthesis-guide/SKILL.md, line 180
latexmk -xelatex main.tex - skills/43-wentorai-research-plugins/skills/writing/templates/thesis-writing-guide/SKILL.md, line 160
latexdiff old_version.tex new_version.tex > diff.tex - skills/43-wentorai-research-plugins/skills/writing/templates/thuthesis-guide/SKILL.md, line 31
brew install --cask mactex - skills/43-wentorai-research-plugins/skills/writing/templates/thuthesis-guide/SKILL.md, line 42
git clone https://github.com/tuna/thuthesis.git - skills/43-wentorai-research-plugins/skills/writing/templates/thuthesis-guide/SKILL.md, line 49
tlmgr install thuthesis - skills/43-wentorai-research-plugins/skills/writing/templates/thuthesis-guide/SKILL.md, line 56
latexmk -xelatex main.tex
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Downloads and installs other software
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Sends data to these websites: www.ieee.org
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Safer alternatives
Low-risk skills in the same category (research) that look related. Check that one does what you need.
Install
Paste this into your terminal. It downloads exactly the version we scanned, not whatever is newest.
if [ -e ~/.agents/skills/'templates-skills' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'templates-skills' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named templates-skills already exists — not replacing it' >&2; false; else d=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet '8684584e7d1127940f018157d2c579974fae8f79' -- 'skills/43-wentorai-research-plugins/skills/writing/templates' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'skills/43-wentorai-research-plugins/skills/writing/templates' ~/.agents/skills/'templates-skills' && rm -rf "$d"; fi
Codex reads ~/.agents/skills directly. For Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, Antigravity or OpenCode, also link it. For Claude Code: ln -s ~/.agents/skills/'templates-skills' ~/.claude/skills/'templates-skills' (other agents: ~/.cursor/skills, ~/.copilot/skills, ~/.gemini/skills, ~/.gemini/config/skills, ~/.config/opencode/skills). Or install through the finder skill, which does both.
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Score history
| Date | Version | Score |
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| 2026-11-10 | 8684584 | 75 |
| 2026-11-08 | bfa0a6e | 75 |
| 2026-11-07 | bfa0a6e | 75 |