Skill audit report

scientific-writing Audit report.

Core skill for the deep research and writing tool. Write scientific manuscripts in full paragraphs (never bullet points). Use two-stage process with (1) section outlines with key points using research-lookup then (2) convert to flowing prose. IMRAD structure, citations (APA/AMA/Vancouver), figures/tables, reporting guidelines (CONSORT/STROBE/PRISMA), for research papers and journal submissions.

EXPERIMENTAL · REVIEWNeeds reviewGenerated Nov 4, 2026Heuristic metadata audit
79
Audit
70
Trust
80
Quality
77
Security
88
Maintain
92
Install

OpenAgentSkill Trust Score

70
Manual review

OpenAgentSkill Trust Score

The Trust Score helps an agent decide whether a skill is safe enough to shortlist before installation.

GitHub adoption

PASS

86

3.7K GitHub stars

Stars/forks activity

PASS

83

3.7K stars, 467 forks; issue activity unavailable in current metadata

Recent maintenance

PASS

88

2mo since push

License clarity

PASS

86

MIT license

README/SKILL.md completeness

INFO

76

Public metadata needs stronger README/SKILL.md context

Dependency/runtime risk

INFO

72

command execution surface

Install availability

PASS

92

npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills --skill scientific-writing

Install command safety

PASS

92

standard package or runtime install path

Permission surface

WARN

48

shell or command execution, filesystem or document access

Repository evidence

PASS

86

https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills/tree/main/skills/03-K-Dense-AI-claude-scientific-skills/scientific-writing

Review status

INFO

66

AI review data available

Agent Proven outcomes

INFO

54

No agent outcome data yet

Checks

Install and adoption review

8 Passed · 10 Needs review

Install path

92

PASS

npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills --skill scientific-writing

Repository

88

PASS

https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills/tree/main/skills/03-K-Dense-AI-claude-scientific-skills/scientific-writing

License

86

PASS

MIT license

Maintenance

88

PASS

2mo since push

AI review

55

CHECK

Skill references external skills (research-lookup, scientific-schematics) that are not included in this submission, which may cause runtime failures if those skills are unavailable.

README/SKILL.md completeness

84

PASS

Usable description available

Dependency risk

72

CHECK

command execution surface

Install command safety

92

PASS

standard package or runtime install path

Permission surface

48

FIX

shell or command execution, filesystem or document access

Stars/forks activity

83

PASS

3.7K stars, 467 forks; issue activity unavailable in current metadata

Adoption

88

PASS

3.7K GitHub stars

Warnings

  • Permission surface may require sandboxing
  • Skill references external skills (research-lookup, scientific-schematics) that are not included in this submission, which may cause runtime failures if those skills are unavailable.
  • The skill mandates a minimum number of figures for each document type, which may be overly prescriptive and could lead to unnecessary resource consumption or forced visual elements that do not add value.
  • No explicit limitations or safe operating boundaries are documented in SKILL.md, though the skill is primarily instructional and not inherently risky.
  • Quality score needs review
  • Permission surface needs review: shell or command execution, filesystem or document access
  • Permission surface: shell or command execution, filesystem or document access

Method

This report combines public metadata, AI review output, repository freshness, install readiness, OpenAgentSkill events, quality scoring, trust checks, and the agent safety gate. It is not a full source-code security review.

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