paper-toolkit

paper-toolkit

Deterministic Python tooling for the fixed steps of academic-paper development — workspace setup, evidence-DAG management, structured checks, LaTeX composition, compile + page introspection, figure rendering, literature search, and an analysis pipeline that feeds the manuscript.

The toolkit contains no LLM calls. All writing, review, and judgment lives in the companion Claude Code skills, which call into this CLI for everything that should be reproducible.

Why

Paper drafts drift between agents, sessions, and editors. The toolkit pins the mechanical parts — schemas, checks, file layout, LaTeX compose, evidence DAG — so the agent only owns prose. Two skills ship with the package:

• agentsociety-analysis — runs the 6-stage analysis pipeline (frame → explore → claims → refine → produce → synthesis) against an experiment SQLite database, emitting bilingual reports + publication-grade figure specs.
• agentsociety-generate-paper — turns analysis outputs into a Springer-Nature-style manuscript: intake, drafting, checks, skeptical review, revision loop, and compile.

Install

Requires Python ≥ 3.11.

# from a clone (recommended for now)
git clone https://github.com/Yokumii/paper-toolkit.git
cd paper-toolkit
uv sync

# or with pip
pip install .

LaTeX (TeX Live / MacTeX) is required for paper compile-once and paper figure render. The toolkit shells out to latexmk / bibtex / pdflatex and parses their logs deterministically.

Quick start

# 1. create a workspace
uv run paper init --title "Demo" --venue nature --language en --workspace ./demo

# 2. seed an evidence node + claim
uv run paper evidence add-claim --workspace ./demo \
    --node-id c_warming --label "Mean temperature rose 1.1 K" --strength primary

# 3. render a figure from a JSON spec
uv run paper figure render --spec ./demo/paper/figure_specs/f_trend.json --workspace ./demo

# 4. compose and compile
uv run paper compose pack-figures --workspace ./demo
uv run paper compose write-main --workspace ./demo
uv run paper compile-once --workspace ./demo

# 5. structured checks
uv run paper check style --workspace ./demo
uv run paper check claim-coverage --workspace ./demo
uv run paper check figures --workspace ./demo
uv run paper check figure-qa --workspace ./demo
uv run paper status --workspace ./demo

Run uv run paper <group> --help for the full verb list in each group, or see the dev branch for the long-form design and plan documents.

CLI surface

Group	Purpose
paper init / status / scan	Workspace lifecycle and snapshotting
paper evidence	Evidence DAG: nodes, edges, claim/evidence linking
paper template	List and expand section templates
paper compose	Pack figures, write main.tex, write refs.bib
paper compile-once / page	LaTeX compile + page-metadata inspection
paper check	style, figures, claim-coverage, figure-qa
paper figure / table	Render figures and LaTeX tables from JSON specs
paper lit	Direct-API search (arXiv / CrossRef / OpenAlex) → refs.bib
paper refs	Inspect and dedup refs.bib (DOI + title-Jaccard fallback)
paper analysis	6-stage analysis pipeline + lift-to-evidence bridge

Every command emits a JSON Envelope on stdout (success, payload, errors) so the skills can route on structured results rather than parsing prose.

Using the Claude Code skills

The skills live under skills/ and are picked up automatically when paper-toolkit is installed as a Claude Code plugin.

// in .claude-plugin/marketplace.json
{
  "plugins": [
    {
      "name": "paper-toolkit",
      "source": "https://github.com/Yokumii/paper-toolkit"
    }
  ]
}

Inside a Claude Code session:

/skill agentsociety-analysis        # run the analysis pipeline
/skill agentsociety-generate-paper  # draft, check, and compile the manuscript

Both skills read their SKILL.md router first, then dispatch to per-stage prompts and subagents (data-explorer, claim-extractor, figure-reviewer, report-producer, skeptical-reviewer, …). All deterministic steps go through this CLI; the skills never invent file paths or schemas.

Repository layout