# Paper Writer

Drafts publishable paper prose from the author's own materials, from a single paragraph...

- Repository: https://github.com/HKUSTDial/Supervisor-Skills (11333 stars)
- Category: Writing
- 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 paper-writer -g -a claude-code -y`
Codex: `npx skills add HKUSTDial/Supervisor-Skills --skill paper-writer -g -a codex -y`
Cursor: `npx skills add HKUSTDial/Supervisor-Skills --skill paper-writer -g -a cursor -y`
Gemini CLI: `npx skills add HKUSTDial/Supervisor-Skills --skill paper-writer -g -a gemini-cli -y`

## Description

Drafts publishable paper prose from the author's own materials, from a single paragraph to a full manuscript, across STEM and non-STEM fields. Every factual claim traces to user input, verified retrieval, or field common knowledge; citations pass an independent verification ladder; delivery is clean prose with zero placeholder tags. Use when the user asks to write a section, turn an idea or results into paper text, or draft a full paper.

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

# 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

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