| name | draft-generation |
| description | Use when the user wants to generate citation-aware manuscript sections or full research drafts grounded in the team's literature base. |
Draft Generation
Overview
Generates structured manuscript drafts — or specific sections — grounded in the available literature base. Unlike generic AI writing, this skill is intended to stay citation-aware, claim-traced, and calibrated to the evidence grades of the underlying papers.
When to Use
- User asks "write a draft introduction for our paper on [topic]"
- User wants a related work section that synthesizes, not just lists
- User needs a first draft of a methods section based on prior work
- User asks "turn our living review into a manuscript draft"
- Lab wants to generate a first pass at a paper to react to and refine
Key Capabilities
- Generate full paper sections: introduction, related work, methods, discussion
- Ground all claims in the available literature corpus — no hallucinated citations
- Calibrate claim confidence to evidence grades from
evidence-grading
- Apply hedging language automatically for preliminary findings
- Match target venue style (NeurIPS, Nature, PNAS, ICML, etc.)
- Insert placeholder tags for figures, tables, and results not yet available
- Generate an outline first and await approval before expanding
Usage Examples
Generate a related work section
draft_generation.related_work(
topic="contrastive learning for protein representation",
corpus=review.get_papers(),
target_venue="NeurIPS",
max_words=800,
style="synthesizing"
)
Generate introduction from living review
draft_generation.introduction(
living_review=review.export(),
research_question="Can self-supervised protein LMs generalize to low-data fitness prediction?",
target_venue="Nature Methods",
max_words=600
)
Generate full paper outline
draft_generation.outline(
title="Proposed title here",
abstract="Proposed abstract here",
target_venue="ICML",
await_approval=True
)
Output Format
All output is structured Markdown with inline citations in the format [AuthorYear]. A reference list is appended. Placeholder tags use [FIGURE: description] and [RESULT: metric] syntax. Evidence grade annotations included in a review mode.
Best Paired With
paper_editor after the review agents have already identified what should change
writing_reflector when a section needs both structural repair and rewriting
Notes
- All citations should be verified against the available corpus — no fabricated references
- Always review AI-generated drafts carefully: structure and flow are strong, factual nuance requires human review
- Combine with
cross-paper-synthesis for the related work section and gap-detection for the motivation or novelty framing