eyaltoledano

Paper Init — Documentation skill for Claude Code

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Start a paper — plan doc first, then scaffold paper/ and draft.

How to install Paper Init

Installs to ~/.claude/skills/eyaltoledano-essaymaster-paper-init/SKILL.md

Terminal

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/eyaltoledano-essaymaster-paper-init && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eyaltoledano/essaymaster/HEAD/commands/paper-init.md -o ~/.claude/skills/eyaltoledano-essaymaster-paper-init/SKILL.md

Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.

What Paper Init does

description: Start a paper — plan doc first, then scaffold paper/ and draft

Invoke the `essaymaster` skill in **init** mode for: $ARGUMENTS

If the repo already has a standalone `paper/` and this is a second paper, FIRST run `node "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/essaymaster/bin/essaymaster.mjs" migrate ` and finish the judgment steps it prints (`references/maintenance.md` §Multi-paper), commit — then proceed.

Order is mandatory: (1) write the plan doc per `references/planning.md` (

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