Code to Paper Skill

Meta workflow skill that guides you through transforming your code implementation into a complete research paper. Provides interactive guidance and orchestrates other skills.

Overview

This skill helps you:

• Plan your paper structure
• Identify what to extract from code
• Organize the writing workflow
• Coordinate multiple skills
• Track progress

Commands

/code-to-paper [--format latex|docx]

Start the interactive code-to-paper workflow.

Parameters:

• --format latex|docx (optional): Target document format (default: latex)

Workflow Overview

┌────────────────┐     ┌────────────────┐     ┌────────────────┐
│  Your Code     │────▶│  Analysis      │────▶│  Paper Section │
│  (Python/etc)  │     │  (Structured)  │     │  (LaTeX/DOCX)  │
└────────────────┘     └────────────────┘     └────────────────┘
       │                      │                       │
   models/              notes/implementation/     sections/
   training/            - architecture.md         methodology.tex
   evaluation/          - training.md             experiments.tex

Workflow Steps

1. Code Analysis

• Use analyze-code to extract implementation details
• Generate structured notes about architecture, training, evaluation
• Identify key components for methodology section

2. Research Integration

• Use research-papers to find related work
• Use manage-citations to build bibliography
• Organize research materials

3. Writing Sections

• Use write-section to write methodology from code analysis
• Use write-section to write experiments from evaluation code
• Use write-section to write related work from research

4. Figures and Tables

• Use create-figures to generate architecture diagrams
• Use create-figures to create result tables
• Use create-figures to plot training curves

5. Review and Refine

• Use review-paper to get feedback
• Use format-document to validate formatting
• Iterate based on feedback

6. Compile and Finalize

• Use compile-paper to build PDF
• Check page limits
• Final review

Interactive Guidance

The skill provides step-by-step guidance:

• Suggests which skills to use next
• Helps organize your workflow
• Tracks what’s been completed
• Identifies missing components

Examples

# Start workflow for LaTeX paper
/code-to-paper

# Start workflow for DOCX paper
/code-to-paper --format docx

Integration with Other Skills

This skill coordinates:

• analyze-code – Extract code details
• research-papers – Find related work
• manage-citations – Build bibliography
• write-section – Write content
• create-figures – Generate visuals
• review-paper – Get feedback
• format-document – Validate formatting
• compile-paper – Build final document

Best Practices

1. Start with code analysis: Understand what you have
2. Build bibliography early: Add citations before writing
3. Write methodology first: Based on code analysis
4. Add experiments: From evaluation code and results
5. Review iteratively: Get feedback and refine
6. Check formatting: Ensure venue compliance

Platform Compatibility

Works on all platforms (Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, Gemini, Cursor). Command syntax may vary by platform – see platform-specific documentation in docs/.