Menu

#990 by GitHub stars

labarba/sciwrite

Reviews and edits the writing in scientific and engineering research: journal and conference papers, thesis chapters, and abstracts. Cuts clutter, revives smothered verbs, fixes sentence and paragraph structure, and checks that terms, acronyms and numbers are consistent. Use this skill whenever some

Claude CodeWriting

History

Review weekly changes to SKILL.md before updating. Dates mark the weeks in which we observed each version; checks apply to the recorded commits.

View weekly changes

skills/sciwrite/SKILL.md

Week of Nov 2, 2026 · +0 / −0 lines

Before Instructions only → After Instructions only

347306c51461 → 347306c51461

Diff text is unavailable under the recorded licenses. Line counts and the GitHub link remain available.

Compare on GitHub

Week of Oct 26, 2026 · Line counts unavailable

Before Not checked yet → After Instructions only

First observation → 347306c51461

No earlier version was observed for comparison.

Compare on GitHub

View on GitHubAdd to my skills

Verified commit 347306c514619fa2806e96c8e0aa1c2db162e76f

git clone --filter=blob:none --no-checkout https://github.com/labarba/sciwrite.git .hotskills/labarba-sciwrite && git -C .hotskills/labarba-sciwrite checkout --detach 347306c514619fa2806e96c8e0aa1c2db162e76f # Copy each selected skill directory from .hotskills/labarba-sciwrite into .claude/skills/<skill-name>/
876GitHub stars
8stars in 7 days
1skill in this repository
28commits in 30 days

Heat

6.0
  • Star growth, last 7 daysAhead of 80% of tracked repositories
  • Star growth, last 24 hoursAhead of 85% of tracked repositories
  • Rank movement, last 7 daysAhead of 16% of tracked repositories
  • Commits, last 30 daysAhead of 86% of tracked repositories
  • Accounts asking about it through MCP, last 7 daysNot available
  • Hot votes this weekAhead of 0% of tracked repositories

Heat never changes the order by stars, and sponsorship never touches it. How heat works

Stars over time

Aug 1, 2026Nov 6, 2026876

Individual skills in this repository

How it works

sciwrite

When your agent uses it

Reviews and edits the writing in scientific and engineering research: journal and conference papers, thesis chapters, and abstracts. Cuts clutter, revives smothered verbs, fixes sentence and paragraph structure, and checks that terms, acronyms and numbers are consistent. Use this skill whenever someone wants their own research writing reviewed, tightened, clarified or made to flow, or checked for wordiness, passive voice or consistency, at any length: a whole manuscript, one section, a paragraph, or a single pasted sentence, even if they never say "manuscript" or "review". Also use it for abstracts and summary paragraphs: whether the main result is stated clearly, the structure follows the journal's expectations, and the length fits. Do not use for technical peer review of methods or results, statistics, citation formatting, translation, or writing new text.

What it loads into context

Frontmatter

265 tokens

Always available to the agent

SKILL.md

4,973 tokens

When the skill is activated

Reference documents

8,742 tokens

Loaded on request

Token counts are estimates. Scripts run separately; they are not counted as reference context.

The playbook

  1. Purpose
  2. Review Modes
  3. Gotchas
  4. The Six Audit Passes
  5. Output Format
  6. Severity Levels
  7. Constraints

Files

  • ../../.claude-plugin/marketplace.jsonasset444 bytes
  • ../../.claude-plugin/plugin.jsonasset479 bytes
  • SKILL.mdcore21,790 bytes
  • evals/ANSWER_KEY.mddoc8,048 bytes
  • evals/BASELINE.mddoc4,918 bytes
  • evals/README.mddoc1,890 bytes
  • evals/evals.jsonasset17,198 bytes
  • evals/files/arterial-stiffness.mddoc1,798 bytes
  • evals/files/cavity.texasset1,939 bytes
  • evals/files/micromixer.mddoc1,100 bytes
  • evals/files/wind-farm-intro.mddoc1,187 bytes
  • evals/trigger_train.jsonasset4,805 bytes
  • evals/trigger_validation.jsonasset3,016 bytes
  • references/section-guidance.mddoc4,293 bytes
  • references/summary-paragraph.mddoc12,450 bytes

No excerpt is shown for this license. Read the source on GitHub.

View the complete source on GitHub

Skills included

  • sciwrite

Repository facts

License
No license detected
Created
Apr 5, 2026
Last pushed
Oct 28, 2026
Forks
106
Open issues
0
Project activity
Active

Rank over the last 12 weeks

Now #990 · best #640 · down 222 in 30 days

  1. #979 on Nov 1
  2. #985 on Nov 2
  3. #991 on Nov 3
  4. #993 on Nov 4
  5. #991 on Nov 5
  6. #990 since Nov 6
56 earlier periods
  1. #720 on Aug 1
  2. #631 on Aug 7
  3. #660 on Aug 10
  4. #668 on Aug 11
  5. #662 on Aug 12
  6. #640 on Aug 15
  7. #663 on Aug 17
  8. #681 on Aug 18
  9. #664 on Aug 19
  10. #641 on Aug 22
  11. #671 on Aug 23
  12. #691 on Aug 24
  13. #694 on Aug 25
  14. #676 on Aug 26
  15. #713 on Aug 28
  16. #656 on Aug 29
  17. #658 on Aug 30
  18. #693 on Aug 31
  19. #703 on Sep 1
  20. #695 on Sep 2
  21. #699 on Sep 3
  22. #691 on Sep 6
  23. #702 on Sep 7
  24. #730 on Sep 8
  25. #713 on Sep 9
  26. #723 on Sep 10
  27. #732 on Sep 16
  28. #737 on Sep 17
  29. #719 on Sep 18
  30. #694 on Sep 19
  31. #751 on Sep 22
  32. #745 on Sep 23
  33. #716 on Sep 24
  34. #698 on Sep 26
  35. #745 on Sep 28
  36. #760 on Sep 30
  37. #709 on Oct 1
  38. #729 on Oct 2
  39. #714 on Oct 3
  40. #741 on Oct 4
  41. #768 on Oct 7
  42. #765 on Oct 10
  43. #789 on Oct 12
  44. #798 on Oct 15
  45. #804 on Oct 16
  46. #765 on Oct 18
  47. #808 on Oct 19
  48. #819 on Oct 20
  49. #815 on Oct 22
  50. #820 on Oct 23
  51. #781 on Oct 24
  52. #954 on Oct 25
  53. #969 on Oct 28
  54. #973 on Oct 29
  55. #974 on Oct 30
  56. #978 on Oct 31

Before you install

Instructions only

Automated signals, not a guarantee

Checked Nov 4, 2026

Show all 12 signals by file

.claude-plugin/plugin.json

  • Network accessline 6
    "name": "Lorena A. Barba"   },   "homepage": "https://github.com/labarba/sciwrite",
  • Network accessline 7
    },   "homepage": "https://github.com/labarba/sciwrite",   "repository": "https://github.com/labarba/sciwrite",
  • Network accessline 8
    "homepage": "https://github.com/labarba/sciwrite",
  • Network accessline 9
    "repository": "https://github.com/labarba/sciwrite",

skills/sciwrite/SKILL.md

  • Network accessline 19
    version: "1.0.0"   source: Kristin Sainani, Writing in the Sciences (Stanford, CC-BY lectures)   repository: https://github.com/labarba/sciwrite
  • Network accessline 20
    source: Kristin Sainani, Writing in the Sciences (Stanford, CC-BY lectures)   repository: https://github.com/labarba/sciwrite ---
  • Network accessline 21
    repository: https://github.com/labarba/sciwrite

skills/sciwrite/evals/README.md

  • Network accessline 24
    version), and grade every assertion as pass or fail with quoted evidence. The method follows the Agent Skills guide, [Evaluating skill output quality](https://agentskills.io/skill-creation/evaluating-skills).
  • Network accessline 26
    [Evaluating skill output quality](https://agentskills.io/skill-creation/evaluating-skills).
  • Network accessline 32
    the others. Change the description only in response to failures in the train set; use the validation set to check the result. See [Optimizing skill descriptions](https://agentskills.io/skill-creation/optimizing-descriptions).
  • Network accessline 33
    set; use the validation set to check the result. See [Optimizing skill descriptions](https://agentskills.io/skill-creation/optimizing-descriptions). The "near miss" queries share vocabulary with the skill but need something else.
  • Network accessline 34
    [Optimizing skill descriptions](https://agentskills.io/skill-creation/optimizing-descriptions).

How the signals fit together

Facts from a static read of the files at the pinned commit. They describe what the code does, not why.

Some files could not be read; the facts below still hold.

Signal confidence: 8 facts

Works with

Agent compatibility, from the files in this repository
AgentStatusEvidenceInstall to
Claude CodeNativeManifest .claude-plugin/marketplace.json.claude/skills/<skill-name>/
CodexCompatibleStandard SKILL.md skills/sciwrite/SKILL.md.agents/skills/<skill-name>/
CursorCompatibleStandard SKILL.md skills/sciwrite/SKILL.md.cursor/skills/<skill-name>/
Gemini CLICompatibleStandard SKILL.md skills/sciwrite/SKILL.md.gemini/skills/<skill-name>/
GitHub CopilotCompatibleStandard SKILL.md skills/sciwrite/SKILL.md.github/skills/<skill-name>/
OpenCodeCompatibleStandard SKILL.md skills/sciwrite/SKILL.md.opencode/skills/<skill-name>/
  • Native The repository ships a manifest, folder or frontmatter field for this agent.
  • Compatible A standard SKILL.md that this agent can read.
  • Unknown No evidence either way.

Derived automatically from paths, manifests and frontmatter. Not tested on each agent.

You might also use

petergyang/no-ai-slop

Edit drafts into sharper, more human writing while preserving the writer's personal voice, or detect AI-slop patterns without rewriting. Use when the user wants a draft clearer, m…

13.2kGitHub stars

multimodal-art-projection/YuE

YuE2: frontier music generation with symbolic planning, zero-shot covers, and agentic music editing.

13.1kGitHub stars

miqdadbadjuber/anti-slop

Rules for an AI coding agent to filter out generic AI-generated UI designs, text, and code.

8.4kGitHub stars

zenstory-ai/oh-story-claudecode

Claude Code / Codex / OpenCode agent skills for writing Chinese web novels (网文): 扫榜、拆文、写作、去AI味、封面全流程，长篇短篇都支持 | 14 skills for novel writing and long-form…

8.4kGitHub stars

LiamGvchi/gc-minimal-zine-poster

Generate or analyze poetic paper-texture minimal zine posters with large negative space, a small editorial collage or focal element, experimental typography, and one clear color a…

7.5kGitHub stars

zarazhangrui/follow-builders

AI builders digest — monitors top AI builders on X and YouTube podcasts, remixes their content into digestible summaries. Use when the user wants AI industry insights, builder upd…

7.1kGitHub stars

Explore alternatives and comparisons

Add this badge to your README

It updates every night and links to this page.

labarba/sciwrite: #990 on hotskills, 876 stars

[![labarba/sciwrite on hotskills](https://hotskills.dev/badge/labarba-sciwrite.svg)](https://hotskills.dev/skill/labarba-sciwrite/)