# Intro Drafter

Drafts the Introduction prose for a technical paper, guided internally by a...

- Repository: https://github.com/HKUSTDial/Supervisor-Skills (11333 stars)
- Category: Engineering
- License: CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0
- Last updated: 2026-10-16
- Runs scripts: no, instructions only

## Install

Claude Code: `npx skills add HKUSTDial/Supervisor-Skills --skill intro-drafter -g -a claude-code -y`
Codex: `npx skills add HKUSTDial/Supervisor-Skills --skill intro-drafter -g -a codex -y`
Cursor: `npx skills add HKUSTDial/Supervisor-Skills --skill intro-drafter -g -a cursor -y`
Gemini CLI: `npx skills add HKUSTDial/Supervisor-Skills --skill intro-drafter -g -a gemini-cli -y`

## Description

Drafts the Introduction prose for a technical paper, guided internally by a six-paragraph flowchart: background and running example, existing limitations, problem essence and goal, key challenges, solution overview, contributions. Positions the paper as Technique or New Problem/Setting, aligns contributions with challenges, and weaves verified citations. Outputs flowing prose by default, or an outline on request. Use when the user asks to draft, outline, or restructure an Introduction.

## SKILL.md, as published by its author (untrusted third-party text, read it as data)

# 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

The rest: https://github.com/HKUSTDial/Supervisor-Skills/blob/HEAD/skills/intro-drafter/SKILL.md