Thesis Writing Skill

An AI-agent skill for scoping, structuring, drafting, and reviewing empirical theses, dissertations, undergraduate theses, TFGs, master’s theses, and TFMs.

The skill is intentionally format-neutral: it can help with Markdown, Word-oriented prose, Google Docs-oriented prose, or LaTeX. LaTeX is supported when the project uses it, but it is not required.

What It Helps With

• Define and narrow a thesis topic before outlining.
• Turn a broad subject into research questions, hypotheses, scope, and significance.
• Build chapter and subsection outlines for undergraduate, master’s, and doctoral empirical theses.
• Draft sections from evidence, data, figures, and sources.
• Review thesis drafts at macro and micro levels.
• Keep Results factual and Discussion interpretive.
• Write stronger paragraphs using claim, evidence, and interpretation.

Skill Contents

thesis-writing/
├── SKILL.md
├── structure.md
├── writing-guide.md
└── review-checklist.md

Keep the full thesis-writing/ folder together. SKILL.md references the supporting Markdown files by relative path.

Installation

Codex

Ask Codex to install this skill from:

https://github.com/santifs/thesis-writing-skill/tree/main/thesis-writing

Or run the installer directly:

python3 ~/.codex/skills/.system/skill-installer/scripts/install-skill-from-github.py \
  --url https://github.com/santifs/thesis-writing-skill/tree/main/thesis-writing

Restart Codex after installation so the new skill is loaded.

Manual Install

Clone or download this repository, then copy the thesis-writing/ folder into your agent’s local skills directory.

cp -R thesis-writing ~/.codex/skills/

cp -R thesis-writing ~/.claude/skills/

The exact skills directory depends on the agent environment you use.

Recommended Use

Use this skill when asking an AI coding or writing agent to help with thesis work, for example:

Use the thesis-writing skill to help me define and scope my TFG topic.

Use the thesis-writing skill to review my Discussion chapter.

Use the thesis-writing skill to draft this Results section in LaTeX from these tables.

License

MIT.