Updated 4w ago
by dvdsosa
scientific-writing-skills
Six Claude Agent Skills for scientific writing, distilled from Stanford's Writing in the Sciences (Kristin Sainani). Edit prose, structure an IMRaD manuscript, run the writing process, handle peer review, draft grants, and write for general audiences.
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- 6 skills (6 skills found in its SKILL.md files)
- 3 forks (3 forks)
- 4w ago last update (Last updated 4w ago)
Install
Skills CLI
npx skills add dvdsosa/scientific-writing-skills
Asks which skills and agents to install. Just one: npx skills add dvdsosa/scientific-writing-skills --skill sciwrite-manuscript — add -g for every project.
Claude Code
git clone https://github.com/dvdsosa/scientific-writing-skillscp -r "scientific-writing-skills/skills/sciwrite-manuscript" ~/.claude/skills/
Copies the sciwrite-manuscript skill into ~/.claude/skills/ for every project (use .claude/skills/ for one project). Repeat for the other skills listed below.
Plugin
/plugin marketplace add dvdsosa/scientific-writing-skills
Run inside Claude Code if the repository ships a plugin marketplace, then pick plugins from /plugin.
Skills can run code on your machine — read the SKILL.md first.
What it does
In the author's own words, from each skill's SKILL.md.
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sciwrite-manuscript
Structure a scientific paper section by section — tables and figures, Results, Methods, Introduction, Discussion, Abstract — following Stanford's Writing in the Sciences. Use this skill whenever someone is writing, drafting, planning, restructuring or reviewing any part of a research paper, journal article, conference paper or thesis chapter: "help me with the introduction", "how do I structure t…
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sciwrite-outreach
Communicate science to non-specialists: lay summaries, plain-language abstracts, press releases, science news stories, talking to journalists, presenting risk numbers honestly, interviewing a scientist, and using social media. Based on Stanford's Writing in the Sciences. Use this skill whenever someone needs to explain research to a general, non-expert or non-technical audience — "write a lay sum…
skills/sciwrite-outreach/ on GitHub (opens in a new tab)SKILL.md -
sciwrite-process
Plan and run the writing process for a scientific paper or thesis chapter — pre-writing and organisation, drafting fast without perfectionism, revision, and the final pre-submission checklist — following Stanford's Writing in the Sciences. Use this skill whenever someone is stuck, procrastinating, or asking how to approach a piece of writing rather than asking about the text itself: "I don't know…
skills/sciwrite-process/ on GitHub (opens in a new tab)SKILL.md -
sciwrite-proposals
Write the documents an academic career runs on besides papers: narrative review articles, grant and fellowship applications (specific aims, research plan), letters of recommendation, and personal statements. Based on Stanford's Writing in the Sciences. Use this skill whenever someone mentions writing or reviewing a grant, a fellowship application, a research proposal, a specific aims page, a rese…
skills/sciwrite-proposals/ on GitHub (opens in a new tab)SKILL.md -
sciwrite-prose
Edit and tighten scientific or technical prose at the sentence and paragraph level, using the method taught in Stanford's Writing in the Sciences. Use this skill whenever someone asks you to review, edit, tighten, clean up, polish or improve any piece of research writing — a paper, thesis chapter, abstract, grant paragraph, cover letter or report — and whenever they say a passage "sounds wrong",…
skills/sciwrite-prose/ on GitHub (opens in a new tab)SKILL.md -
sciwrite-publish
Navigate publication: choosing a journal, the submission process, responding to reviewers after a revise-and-resubmit, performing a peer review yourself, authorship decisions and order, plagiarism and self-plagiarism, and spotting predatory journals. Based on Stanford's Writing in the Sciences. Use this skill whenever someone mentions submitting a paper, a decision letter, reviewer comments, a re…
skills/sciwrite-publish/ on GitHub (opens in a new tab)SKILL.md
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Review before you install
A skill is a set of instructions and scripts your agent will follow, and it can run code on your machine. Read the SKILL.md and any scripts first — this listing is not a security review.