research-paper-writing

Name: research-paper-writing
Author: AlexAI-MCP

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alexai-mcp/hermes-ccc/research-paper-writing

$npx -y skills add AlexAI-MCP/hermes-CCC --skill research-paper-writing

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Summary

Academic paper writing workflow — literature review, LaTeX setup, structure, citations, and conference submissions.

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SKILL.md

1	# Research Paper Writing
2
3	End-to-end workflow for writing and submitting academic papers.
4
5	---
6
7	## Paper Structure
8
9	```
10	1. Title & Authors
11	2. Abstract ← write last, 150-250 words
12	3. Introduction ← problem, gap, contributions, roadmap
13	4. Related Work ← what exists, why insufficient
14	5. Methodology ← your approach, architecture, algorithm
15	6. Experiments ← setup, baselines, metrics
16	7. Results ← tables, figures, analysis
17	8. Discussion ← limitations, broader impact
18	9. Conclusion ← summary, future work
19	10. References
20	Appendix (optional)
21	```
22
23	---
24
25	## Abstract Formula
26
27	```
28	[PROBLEM] Prior work has struggled with X.
29	[GAP] Existing approaches fail because Y.
30	[SOLUTION] We propose Z, which does A and B.
31	[RESULTS] On benchmark C, we achieve D% improvement.
32	[IMPACT] This enables E.
33	```
34
35	---
36
37	## LaTeX Setup
38
39	```bash
40	# Ubuntu/Debian
41	sudo apt install texlive-full
42
43	# macOS
44	brew install --cask mactex
45
46	# Windows
47	# Install MiKTeX from miktex.org
48
49	# Verify
50	pdflatex --version
51	bibtex --version
52	```
53
54	### Compile
55
56	```bash
57	pdflatex paper.tex
58	bibtex paper
59	pdflatex paper.tex
60	pdflatex paper.tex # run 3x for refs to resolve
61
62	# Or with latexmk (auto-detects what to run)
63	latexmk -pdf paper.tex
64	latexmk -pdf -pvc paper.tex # continuous preview
65	```
66
67	---
68
69	## Minimal LaTeX Paper
70
71	```latex
72	\documentclass{article}
73	\usepackage{amsmath, amssymb, graphicx, booktabs, hyperref}
74	\usepackage[margin=1in]{geometry}
75	\usepackage[numbers]{natbib}
76
77	\title{Your Paper Title}
78	\author{Author One \and Author Two}
79	\date{}
80
81	\begin{document}
82	\maketitle
83
84	\begin{abstract}
85	Your abstract here.
86	\end{abstract}
87
88	\section{Introduction}
89	\label{sec:intro}
90
91	\section{Related Work}
92	Prior work \citep{vaswani2017attention} showed...
93
94	\section{Method}
95	\label{sec:method}
96
97	\section{Experiments}
98
99	\begin{table}[t]
100	\centering
101	\caption{Main results}
102	\begin{tabular}{lcc}
103	\toprule
104	Method & Metric A & Metric B \\
105	\midrule
106	Baseline & 70.1 & 65.3 \\
107	Ours & \textbf{74.8} & \textbf{70.2} \\
108	\bottomrule
109	\end{tabular}
110	\end{table}
111
112	\section{Conclusion}
113
114	\bibliography{references}
115	\bibliographystyle{plainnat}
116	\end{document}
117	```
118
119	---
120
121	## References (.bib file)
122
123	```bibtex
124	@article{vaswani2017attention,
125	title={Attention is all you need},
126	author={Vaswani, Ashish and others},
127	journal={NeurIPS},
128	year={2017}
129	}
130
131	@inproceedings{devlin2019bert,
132	title={{BERT}: Pre-training of deep bidirectional transformers},
133	author={Devlin, Jacob and others},
134	booktitle={NAACL},
135	year={2019}
136	}
137	```
138
139	Get BibTeX from:
140	- Google Scholar → Cite → BibTeX
141	- arXiv → Export BibTeX (bottom of abstract page)
142	- Semantic Scholar
143
144	---
145
146	## Literature Review via arXiv
147
148	```bash
149	# Use /arxiv skill to find papers
150	# Example searches:
151	# /arxiv search "GRPO reinforcement learning language model"
152	# /arxiv search "retrieval augmented generation survey"
153	# /arxiv get 2401.00001
154	```
155
156	---
157
158	## Figures
159
160	```python
161	import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
162	import numpy as np
163
164	fig, ax = plt.subplots(figsize=(4, 3))
165	x = np.linspace(0, 10, 100)
166	ax.plot(x, np.sin(x), label="Our Method")
167	ax.plot(x, np.cos(x), "--", label="Baseline")
168	ax.set_xlabel("Epoch")
169	ax.set_ylabel("Accuracy")
170	ax.legend()
171	ax.grid(alpha=0.3)
172	plt.tight_layout()
173	plt.savefig("figure1.pdf", bbox_inches="tight", dpi=300)
174	```
175
176	Include in LaTeX:
177	```latex
178	\begin{figure}[t]
179	\centering
180	\includegraphics[width=0.8\linewidth]{figure1.pdf}
181	\caption{Comparison of our method vs baseline.}
182	\label{fig:main}
183	\end{figure}
184	```
185
186	---
187
188	## Conference Templates
189
190	\| Conference \| Deadline \| Template \|
191	\|-----------\|---------\|---------\|
192	\| NeurIPS \| May \| neurips.cc \|
193	\| ICLR \| Oct \| iclr.cc \|
194	\| ICML \| Jan \| icml.cc \|
195	\| ACL \| Feb \| acl-org.github.io \|
196	\| AAAI \| Aug \| aaai.org \|
197
198	Download official template from the conference website — never use unofficial ones.
199
200	---
201
202	## Overleaf (Collaborative)
203
204	1. Upload all `.tex`, `.bib`, `.pdf` files to Overleaf
205	2. Share link with co-authors
206	3. Enable Track Changes for reviews
207	4. Download final PDF when ready
208
209	---
210
211	## Common Mistakes
212
213	- Vague claims: "significantly better" → give exact numbers
214	- Missing baselines: always compare against SOTA
215	- No ablation: show which parts of your method matter
216	- Figure too small: aim for readable at 100% zoom
217	- Passive voice overuse: "we propose" not "it is proposed"
218	- Missing limitations: reviewers will point them out; address proactively

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research-paper-writing

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View on GitHub

How to install research-paper-writing?

alexai-mcp/hermes-ccc/research-paper-writing

$npx -y skills add AlexAI-MCP/hermes-CCC --skill research-paper-writing

Installs into the current project.

Summary

Academic paper writing workflow — literature review, LaTeX setup, structure, citations, and conference submissions.

Files · 1

View on GitHub

SKILL.md

1	# Research Paper Writing
2
3	End-to-end workflow for writing and submitting academic papers.
4
5	---
6
7	## Paper Structure
8
9	```
10	1. Title & Authors
11	2. Abstract ← write last, 150-250 words
12	3. Introduction ← problem, gap, contributions, roadmap
13	4. Related Work ← what exists, why insufficient
14	5. Methodology ← your approach, architecture, algorithm
15	6. Experiments ← setup, baselines, metrics
16	7. Results ← tables, figures, analysis
17	8. Discussion ← limitations, broader impact
18	9. Conclusion ← summary, future work
19	10. References
20	Appendix (optional)
21	```
22
23	---
24
25	## Abstract Formula
26
27	```
28	[PROBLEM] Prior work has struggled with X.
29	[GAP] Existing approaches fail because Y.
30	[SOLUTION] We propose Z, which does A and B.
31	[RESULTS] On benchmark C, we achieve D% improvement.
32	[IMPACT] This enables E.
33	```
34
35	---
36
37	## LaTeX Setup
38
39	```bash
40	# Ubuntu/Debian
41	sudo apt install texlive-full
42
43	# macOS
44	brew install --cask mactex
45
46	# Windows
47	# Install MiKTeX from miktex.org
48
49	# Verify
50	pdflatex --version
51	bibtex --version
52	```
53
54	### Compile
55
56	```bash
57	pdflatex paper.tex
58	bibtex paper
59	pdflatex paper.tex
60	pdflatex paper.tex # run 3x for refs to resolve
61
62	# Or with latexmk (auto-detects what to run)
63	latexmk -pdf paper.tex
64	latexmk -pdf -pvc paper.tex # continuous preview
65	```
66
67	---
68
69	## Minimal LaTeX Paper
70
71	```latex
72	\documentclass{article}
73	\usepackage{amsmath, amssymb, graphicx, booktabs, hyperref}
74	\usepackage[margin=1in]{geometry}
75	\usepackage[numbers]{natbib}
76
77	\title{Your Paper Title}
78	\author{Author One \and Author Two}
79	\date{}
80
81	\begin{document}
82	\maketitle
83
84	\begin{abstract}
85	Your abstract here.
86	\end{abstract}
87
88	\section{Introduction}
89	\label{sec:intro}
90
91	\section{Related Work}
92	Prior work \citep{vaswani2017attention} showed...
93
94	\section{Method}
95	\label{sec:method}
96
97	\section{Experiments}
98
99	\begin{table}[t]
100	\centering
101	\caption{Main results}
102	\begin{tabular}{lcc}
103	\toprule
104	Method & Metric A & Metric B \\
105	\midrule
106	Baseline & 70.1 & 65.3 \\
107	Ours & \textbf{74.8} & \textbf{70.2} \\
108	\bottomrule
109	\end{tabular}
110	\end{table}
111
112	\section{Conclusion}
113
114	\bibliography{references}
115	\bibliographystyle{plainnat}
116	\end{document}
117	```
118
119	---
120
121	## References (.bib file)
122
123	```bibtex
124	@article{vaswani2017attention,
125	title={Attention is all you need},
126	author={Vaswani, Ashish and others},
127	journal={NeurIPS},
128	year={2017}
129	}
130
131	@inproceedings{devlin2019bert,
132	title={{BERT}: Pre-training of deep bidirectional transformers},
133	author={Devlin, Jacob and others},
134	booktitle={NAACL},
135	year={2019}
136	}
137	```
138
139	Get BibTeX from:
140	- Google Scholar → Cite → BibTeX
141	- arXiv → Export BibTeX (bottom of abstract page)
142	- Semantic Scholar
143
144	---
145
146	## Literature Review via arXiv
147
148	```bash
149	# Use /arxiv skill to find papers
150	# Example searches:
151	# /arxiv search "GRPO reinforcement learning language model"
152	# /arxiv search "retrieval augmented generation survey"
153	# /arxiv get 2401.00001
154	```
155
156	---
157
158	## Figures
159
160	```python
161	import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
162	import numpy as np
163
164	fig, ax = plt.subplots(figsize=(4, 3))
165	x = np.linspace(0, 10, 100)
166	ax.plot(x, np.sin(x), label="Our Method")
167	ax.plot(x, np.cos(x), "--", label="Baseline")
168	ax.set_xlabel("Epoch")
169	ax.set_ylabel("Accuracy")
170	ax.legend()
171	ax.grid(alpha=0.3)
172	plt.tight_layout()
173	plt.savefig("figure1.pdf", bbox_inches="tight", dpi=300)
174	```
175
176	Include in LaTeX:
177	```latex
178	\begin{figure}[t]
179	\centering
180	\includegraphics[width=0.8\linewidth]{figure1.pdf}
181	\caption{Comparison of our method vs baseline.}
182	\label{fig:main}
183	\end{figure}
184	```
185
186	---
187
188	## Conference Templates
189
190	\| Conference \| Deadline \| Template \|
191	\|-----------\|---------\|---------\|
192	\| NeurIPS \| May \| neurips.cc \|
193	\| ICLR \| Oct \| iclr.cc \|
194	\| ICML \| Jan \| icml.cc \|
195	\| ACL \| Feb \| acl-org.github.io \|
196	\| AAAI \| Aug \| aaai.org \|
197
198	Download official template from the conference website — never use unofficial ones.
199
200	---
201
202	## Overleaf (Collaborative)
203
204	1. Upload all `.tex`, `.bib`, `.pdf` files to Overleaf
205	2. Share link with co-authors
206	3. Enable Track Changes for reviews
207	4. Download final PDF when ready
208
209	---
210
211	## Common Mistakes
212
213	- Vague claims: "significantly better" → give exact numbers
214	- Missing baselines: always compare against SOTA
215	- No ablation: show which parts of your method matter
216	- Figure too small: aim for readable at 100% zoom
217	- Passive voice overuse: "we propose" not "it is proposed"
218	- Missing limitations: reviewers will point them out; address proactively

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