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Academic-writing projects on GitHub

Helpers for drafting and polishing scholarly manuscripts.

As of , the most-starred Academic-writing projects on GitHub are academic-research-skills (52.9K stars), nature-skills (49.1K stars) and pandoc (46.6K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 21 Academic-writing repositories with 300.3K stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 17 was Turnitout-Humanizer, with +305 stars in a day.

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Most stars gained in a day · Oct 17

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Turnitout-Humanizer

AhmadHassan-BTed/Turnitout-Humanizer · ★ 2K

Turnitout is a rule-based engine that strips AI-detector watermarks and plagiarism-similarity signals from documents and code so they pass Turnitin, iThenticate, GPTZero, CopyLeaks, and ZeroGPT, without using any generative AI itself.

+171

nature-skills

Yuan1z0825/nature-skills · ★ 49.1K

nature-skills is a collection of reusable AI agent skills focused on Nature-style academic writing and scientific figure production, built for real research workflows like paper translation, polishing, PPT generation, and review response letters.

+141

academic-research-skills

Imbad0202/academic-research-skills · ★ 52.9K

A comprehensive suite of Claude Code skills covering the full academic research pipeline — literature review, writing, peer review, and revision — built to act as a copilot rather than an autopilot for academic papers.

+69

Supervisor-Skills

HKUSTDial/Supervisor-Skills · ★ 10K

Supervisor-Skills is a collection of structured AI skill/prompt files that distill a professor's decade of research experience from top conferences (SIGMOD, VLDB, ICML, NeurIPS) into tools covering the full paper lifecycle, from idea evaluation to writing, figure design, and rebuttal.

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21 projects · by stars

  1. #1 · Imbad0202/academic-research-skills

    academic-research-skills

    A comprehensive suite of Claude Code skills covering the full academic research pipeline — literature review, writing, peer review, and revision — built to act as a copilot rather than an autopilot for academic papers.

    52.9K
  2. #2 · Yuan1z0825/nature-skills

    nature-skills

    nature-skills is a collection of reusable AI agent skills focused on Nature-style academic writing and scientific figure production, built for real research workflows like paper translation, polishing, PPT generation, and review response letters.

    49.1K
  3. #3 · jgm/pandoc

    pandoc

    Pandoc is a Haskell library for converting documents from one markup format to another, plus the command-line tool built on top of it — a universal markup converter.

    46.6K
  1. 4

    awesome-ai-research-writing

    35KLeey21/awesome-ai-research-writing

    It is a curated collection of academic-writing prompt templates and agent skills, built from the real workflows of researchers at top labs like MSRA and Seed and students from Peking University, USTC and SJTU, to help polish, translate and de-AI-ify research papers written in LaTeX or Word.

  2. 5

    overleaf

    18.3Koverleaf/overleaf · JavaScript

    Overleaf is an open-source, web-based real-time collaborative LaTeX editor; this repo is the self-hostable Community Edition, while the hosted version runs at overleaf.com.

  3. 6

    quarkdown

    16.3Kiamgio/quarkdown · Kotlin

    Quarkdown is a Markdown-based typesetting system: you write a single Markdown source and it compiles into a print-ready book, academic paper, knowledge base, website, or interactive presentation.

  4. 7

    learning_research

    15.3Kpengsida/learning_research

    A free, open-source guide to doing academic research, written in Chinese by researcher Peng Sida. It distills his research experience in written form so lab newcomers can learn the craft without word-of-mouth training.

  5. 8

    Zettlr

    13.8KZettlr/Zettlr · TypeScript

    Zettlr is a free and open-source desktop app for writing in Markdown, aimed at academic publishing: draft notes and papers with built-in citations and export to whatever pipeline your school or publisher requires.

  6. 9

    academic-research-skills-codex

    13.1KImbad0202/academic-research-skills-codex · Python

    ARS-Codex is a Codex-native port of the Academic Research Skills (ARS) suite: a packaged Codex skill/plugin that helps with human-in-the-loop academic research workflows like literature review, paper drafting, peer review simulation, and end-to-end research pipelines.

  7. 10

    Supervisor-Skills

    10KHKUSTDial/Supervisor-Skills · Python

    Supervisor-Skills is a collection of structured AI skill/prompt files that distill a professor's decade of research experience from top conferences (SIGMOD, VLDB, ICML, NeurIPS) into tools covering the full paper lifecycle, from idea evaluation to writing, figure design, and rebuttal.

  8. 11

    MathModelAgent

    6.2Kjihe520/MathModelAgent · TeX

    An open-source AI agent for mathematical modeling competitions: it analyzes the problem, builds the model, writes and debugs the code, and produces a formatted paper ready for submission.

  9. 12

    PaperSpine

    6KWUBING2023/PaperSpine · Python

    PaperSpine is a local-first academic writing system that orchestrates research, citation sourcing, drafting, review and delivery of papers, enforcing that every claim is backed by confirmed contributions and evidence before a manuscript can be called submittable.

  10. 13

    claude-scholar

    5.8KGalaxy-Dawn/claude-scholar · Python

    Claude Scholar is a semi-automated research assistant for academic research and software development, built especially for computer science and AI researchers. It routes work through ideation, literature review, coding, experiments, reporting, and writing/publication, and plugs into Claude Code, Codex CLI, Kimi Code CLI, and OpenCode.

  11. 14

    codex-claude-academic-skills

    5KzLanqing/codex-claude-academic-skills · Python

    Three Claude Code / Codex Agent Skills built for Chinese academic researchers, covering the full research workflow: research-writing-skill for drafting and polishing papers, office-academic-skill for generating academic Word/PPT documents, and scientific-toolkit-skill for MATLAB/Python scientific computing and publication-quality figures.

  12. 15

    anti-defensive-writing-Skill

    3.4KAdkid-Zephyr/anti-defensive-writing-Skill · Python

    A lightweight, zero-dependency Skill and prompt pack that stops 'defensive writing' in academic papers — the habit of pre-emptively hedging, apologizing, and undercutting your own results before reviewers even see them. It pushes writers toward a confident, press-conference style narrative built around the paper's strongest advantage.

  13. 16

    Turnitout-Humanizer

    2KAhmadHassan-BTed/Turnitout-Humanizer · HTML

    Turnitout is a rule-based engine that strips AI-detector watermarks and plagiarism-similarity signals from documents and code so they pass Turnitin, iThenticate, GPTZero, CopyLeaks, and ZeroGPT, without using any generative AI itself.

  14. 17

    bzd-math-modeling-skills

    426BZDmathclub/bzd-math-modeling-skills · HTML

    A collection of Skills for the Codex and Claude Code coding agents that guides you through the whole math-modeling competition workflow — from understanding the problem statement to a judge-style review of your finished paper.

  15. 18

    cumcm-step-review

    317yuanchen-home/cumcm-step-review · Python

    This is an Agent Skill that provides a complete step-by-step review workflow for writing a CUMCM (China Undergraduate Mathematical Contest in Modeling) paper, compatible with Codex, Claude Code and other agents that support the Agent Skills spec.

  16. 19

    modex-mh-agent

    287N-allpass/modex-mh-agent

    Modex · MH Agent is a Windows desktop AI agent that automates the full pipeline of mathematical modeling competitions and academic research, taking a competition problem all the way to a competition-grade paper overnight with one command.

  17. 20

    Evidence-Bound-Press-Conference-Revision-Skill

    270lensback940701/Evidence-Bound-Press-Conference-Revision-Skill · Python

    It is an evidence-bound revision skill for academic manuscripts in social science research. It strips out defensive, self-protective prose (hedging, work-log narration, anticipatory rebuttals) while keeping every scope condition, evidence-status distinction, and rival explanation that the evidence actually supports.

  18. 21

    cumcm-paper-hand-skill

    212Mr-potato-123/cumcm-paper-hand-skill · TeX

    An Agent Skill that works with an AI agent (such as Claude Code) inside your contest folder to help write up a CUMCM (China Undergraduate Mathematical Contest in Modeling) paper in LaTeX, delivering a compiled 论文.tex plus PDF.

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