Paper Writer

Overview

This skill turns a researcher's ideas and materials into submittable paper prose. One paragraph works; a full manuscript works.

It is not an outline generator and not a writing tutor. It writes the text, under one non-negotiable condition: every written word must be traceable to evidence. The author owns the substance (ideas, designs, results, conclusions); this skill owns the linguistic realization of that substance, and nothing more.

Hard rules

These hold for every task this skill performs:

1. Every factual claim has one of three origins: the user's materials, this session's verified retrieval, or field common knowledge that carries no numbers, names, or comparisons. Model memory is never a source.
2. Delivered prose contains zero bracketed placeholder tags of any kind. A claim without a source is resolved by searching, rewriting, or deleting, never by tagging.
3. Concrete details the user did not provide are not written: no invented scenarios, mechanisms, magnitudes, procedures, or identifiers.
4. Claim strength never exceeds evidence strength.
5. Real results and planned or expected results are phrased differently and never mixed.
6. Internal planning never leaks into the output.

The full discipline, including the evidence hierarchy and the Evidence Map: see references/evidence-discipline.md.

When to use this skill

• "Write this idea into an English introduction paragraph."
• "Draft the Discussion in the style of a specific venue."
• "Write a full first draft of the paper."
• "Turn these notes into a Methods section."
• "Produce an abstract."

When NOT to use this skill