The Agent Skills Directory

[COMMAND_EXECUTION]: The skill incorporates instructions and automation for standard build tools used in academic document preparation.
File templates/README.md and the neurips2025 Makefile include commands for compiling LaTeX documents using pdflatex, bibtex, latexmk, and pdfcrop.
Instructions in SKILL.md guide the agent to explore local research repositories using standard shell utilities like ls, find, and grep to identify experimental results and relevant citations.
[EXTERNAL_DOWNLOADS]: The skill provides mechanisms for obtaining official conference style files and documentation from reputable sources.
The templates/neurips2025/Makefile includes an upgrade target that uses curl to fetch style packages directly from media.neurips.cc.
Documentation across the templates refers to official repositories on GitHub (e.g., github.com/acl-org) and cloud-based platforms like Overleaf for maintaining current versions of style files.
[REMOTE_CODE_EXECUTION]: The skill includes Python scripts and platform-specific commands to automate research-related data fetching.
SKILL.md and references/citation-workflow.md contain Python code snippets using the requests, semanticscholar, and arxiv libraries to fetch paper metadata and BibTeX entries from established academic APIs at doi.org and semanticscholar.org.
SKILL.md also includes an instruction to add an academic search capability using the command npx -y mcp-remote "https://mcp.exa.ai/mcp".
[SAFE]: The skill's functionality is transparently documented and adheres to the principles of legitimate research productivity tools. No malicious patterns such as credential harvesting, data exfiltration to untrusted domains, or attempts to override agent safety constraints were identified.

ml-paper-writing