Academic Writing Core

Norman-bury/research-writing-skillSource at 5cb13ad (opens GitHub)

20% lighter

Same results: 15 of 15 checks passed, original 15 of 15

41,117 tokens, was 51,324 across 1 task, 3 runs each

Check it yourself

SKILL.md keeps every line and gains one block at the end

What AIR found

VerifiedNo high-risk findings
AIR's security review found nothing that needs a closer look. Reviewed Oct 1, 2026.

What changed

Original on GitHub

Files in the skill and how each changed
File	Original	Lighter version	Change
SKILL.mdNot in the original · Not in the lighter version	Not present	Not present	Modified

Your original, with one block added at the end. Claude Code runs those commands once when the skill loads, so the agent starts with the files it always went looking for and spends no turns finding them.

Task by task

Deai research intro20% lighter
Original
51,324 tokens
Lighter version
41,117 tokens

Tokens per task, the middle of 3 runs each, on one scale.