Introduction Drafter

Overview

The Introduction is the compressed version of the entire paper. In one and a half to two pages it must state the research object, why the problem matters, why existing work falls short, what the paper contributes, and how the contributions map to sections. Reviewers decide whether to keep reading by the end of the Introduction, so the logical throughline has to be airtight.

This skill is a prose generator, not an outline generator. It takes a small set of inputs (research area, limitations, key idea, challenges, solution overview, optional references) and produces six paragraphs of real Introduction prose. The six-paragraph flowchart works underneath as an internal scaffold and never appears in the output.

The delivered text must read as if a researcher wrote it: flowing paragraphs, no inline tags, no "Paragraph 1: Background" headings, no severity tables, no consistency reports. Just the Introduction.

An explicit outline is still available: see "Outline mode" below.

Evidence rules (inherited)

This skill follows the shared evidence discipline: every factual claim traces to the user's materials, this session's verified retrieval, or field common knowledge; model memory is never a source; delivered prose carries zero bracketed placeholder tags; details the user did not provide (specific scenarios, mechanisms, magnitudes, procedures, identifiers) are omitted, not invented.

See: references/evidence-discipline.md and references/prose-delivery.md (shared with paper-writer).

When to use this skill

• "Write the Introduction." "Draft the Intro from this idea."
• The user has a paragraph of research thinking and wants finished prose, not bullets.
• The user has Goal and Key Idea settled but no Introduction text yet.
• The user pastes references and asks for them woven into the Introduction.

When NOT to use this skill