Use when auditing, restructuring, or revising a research manuscript whose scientific question, claim hierarchy, evidence chain, section logic, figures, terminology, or prose may be unclear or out of sync. Apply before sentence-level polishing, especially for…
Entry point for any manuscript request that does not name a specific skill. Load this FIRST whenever the ask is general, then run the chain it prescribes. Covers optimize my paper, improve the manuscript, polish this draft, make this better, clean it up, help…
Analyze, draft, revise, or audit scientific peer-review response letters and point-by-point rebuttals. Use for reviewer comments, response letters, rebuttals, revision summaries, quoted manuscript changes, replies that must align with a manuscript or…
Referee-side skill for Nature Portfolio manuscripts, in four modes. Write a referee report: methodology, statistics, reporting standards, reproducibility, and data and code availability. Inventory a report you received: split it into every ask and sub-ask, in…
Use when checking manuscript citations, bibliography hygiene, DOI or PMID completeness, placeholder references, or BibTeX consistency before submission or revision.
Use when a manuscript's claims need to be checked against the sources cited for them, when literature search results must be verified before they enter a draft, or when an agent or collaborator has proposed references that have not yet been adversarially…
Use when writing, restructuring, or auditing a Review, survey, or Perspective rather than a research article, especially a commissioned one written across many sessions. Covers the governing plan document, drift detection, single-definition thesis and field…
Prose-quality rules for writing scientific manuscript text — abstract, introduction, results, discussion. The headline rule is a strict em-dash budget: the long dash (—) is overused and reads as a stylistic tic, so cap it and rewrite with commas, colons,…