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Academic Venue Templates Assistant (venue-templates)

Prepares journal manuscripts, conference papers, posters, and grant documents by verifying current official venue rules first, then using bundled LaTeX scaffolds.

Docs & OfficeIntermediate★ 33,030⑂ 3,248AI score 9/10Last updated: Aug 9, 2026

What it does

  • Forces a verification-first workflow: pin down venue, year/cycle, track, document type, and submission stage, then open the official author instructions, call, or NOFO before stating page limits, anonymity rules, or style-file names.
  • Records a compliance note with the source URL and date checked so decisions stay reproducible.
  • Copies and customizes bundled LaTeX scaffolds (Nature-style, PLOS ONE, NeurIPS wrapper, Elsevier elsarticle variants, NSF proposal, NIH Specific Aims, beamerposter).
  • Points to writing-style and reviewer-expectation references per venue family (Nature/Science, Cell Press, medical journals, ML/CV, ACL/CHI) plus rebuttal criteria.
  • Inspects submission PDFs for page counts and embedded fonts via validate_format.py, with a final compliance checklist.

Who it's for

  • Graduate students and researchers submitting to journals and conferences
  • PIs and research administrators drafting NSF/NIH/DOE/DARPA or foundation proposals
  • Presenters building conference posters to spec
  • Anyone authoring in LaTeX who wants formatting compliance checked

Example uses

  1. "Check ICML 2026 main-track rules and whether my PDF fits 8 pages" → verifies the official page → writes a compliance note → runs validate_format.py --venue icml-2026 --content-pages 8 --check page-count,fonts.
  2. "Start a NeurIPS 2026 draft" → instructs you to download the official neurips_2026.sty, then runs customize_template.py --template neurips_article.tex --output my_neurips_2026_paper.tex.
  3. "Draft a one-page NIH R01 Specific Aims" → reads the NOFO first, drafts from assets/grants/nih_specific_aims.tex, and redirects biosketches to SciENcv.

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  1. Open a terminal and confirm Python: python3 --version (3.11+ required for the helper scripts). For compiling and PDF inspection, also install TeX Live and Poppler (pdffonts, pdfinfo).
  2. Clone the repository: git clone https://github.com/K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills.git
  3. Create the skills folder: mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
  4. Copy just this skill: cp -r scientific-agent-skills/skills/venue-templates ~/.claude/skills/
  5. Verify the contents: ls ~/.claude/skills/venue-templates should show references/, assets/, and scripts/.
  6. Restart Claude Code and try a prompt like "Check the ICML 2026 formatting rules" or "Help me draft an NSF proposal narrative."
  7. Run helpers from inside the skill directory: cd ~/.claude/skills/venue-templates && python scripts/query_template.py --list-all
View source on GitHub ↗License: MIT