A specialized AI agent skill designed to streamline scholarly writing, literature reviews, and thesis development with strict academic integrity.
Install & Download
1. ClawHub CLI
The fastest way to install a skill directly from the registry.
npx clawhub@latest install toby-academic-writing
2. Manual Installation
Copy the skill folder to one of these locations
~/.openclaw/skills/ <project>/skills/ Priority: Workspace > Local > Bundled
3. Prompt Installation
Copy this prompt to OpenClaw to install it automatically.
Help me install toby-academic-writing using Clawhub. If Clawhub is not installed, install it first (npm i -g clawhub).
Prefer to download?
Get the raw skill files in a ZIP archive.
What is Academic Writing?
The Academic Writing skill transforms AI agents into expert scholarly assistants capable of producing high-quality research papers, methodologies, and dissertations. By integrating this skill into your Openclaw Skills library, you ensure all outputs adhere to rigorous academic standards, including proper citation formatting and the exclusive use of peer-reviewed sources from databases like arXiv and PubMed.
This skill is built for researchers and students who require precise technical terminology and formal tone. It enforces a structural requirement where core information is encapsulated in specialized tags, ensuring that the generated content is ready for professional academic submission while maintaining a high degree of verifiable truth.
Academic Writing Use Cases
- Writing and formatting peer-reviewed journal articles and conference proceedings.
- Conducting systematic literature reviews with verifiable academic citations.
- Drafting research methodologies and thesis chapters with formal technical terminology.
- Generating visual data representations using Mermaid diagrams for academic papers.
- Organizing comparative data into structured Markdown tables for scholarly analysis.
How Academic Writing Works
- The user provides a research topic or draft request to the agent.
- The skill enforces a strict source policy, filtering for peer-reviewed journals and repositories like IEEE Xplore and ScienceDirect.
- The agent structures the response using the
wrapper to separate core academic content from conversational remarks. - Citations are generated sequentially in a numbered format linked to real, verifiable URLs.
- A comprehensive reference list is appended at the end following the specified author-year-title format.
Academic Writing Setup
To install the Academic Writing skill, use the Openclaw Skills CLI or manually add the configuration to your agent profile.
# Example installation via CLI
openclaw install academic-writing
Ensure your runtime environment supports Markdown and Mermaid diagram rendering for full visual capabilities.
Academic Writing Data Schema & Taxonomy
The skill organizes data within a structured Markdown document enclosed in custom tags for easy parsing.
| Element | Format | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Container | Wraps the primary academic output to distinguish from chat metadata. | |
| Citations | [n] | Sequential, numbered in-text references starting from [1]. |
| Visuals | Mermaid | Used for generating flowcharts and methodology diagrams. |
| References | List | Standardized bibliographic entries at the end of the document. |
Academic Writing Advanced Features
- Automatic verification of academic integrity to prevent data fabrication or hallucination.
- Multi-language support matching the user's query while maintaining technical precision in terminology.
- Exclusion of non-academic sources like blogs or Wikipedia to ensure high-quality Openclaw Skills outputs.
- Dynamic runtime variable substitution for session management and date tracking.
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