| name | condense |
| description | 精简技能。对整篇文档剔除**所有**不必要的、以及上下文/全文其他地方已有重复的内容:跨节重复的 claim/数字、零信息增量段落、死定义/死图表、冗长表达。执行 SCIPAPER_STANDARD §5.3(改写、删减、精简,而不是堆叠):默认方向永远是更短,删除 > 原地压缩 > 等长改写,增长最后且必须有记录理由。每个事实只保留一个 canonical 位置,副本删除或改为交叉引用。保真不变量(§6)全程保护。Use when 用户说 "精简" / "太长了" / "重复" / "废话太多" / "condense" / "trim" / "去冗余",或 paper-review 维度 I 的冗余 finding 需要执行修复时。 |
| disable-model-invocation | false |
| argument-hint | <file_path> [--section <name>] [--max-iter N] [--report-only] [--field <name>] |
Normative authority: docs/SCIPAPER_STANDARD.md. §5.3 (condense, do not
accumulate) is the policy this skill executes; the policy text lives ONLY in
the standard — this skill implements it and never restates a competing
version. §6 rewrite eligibility defines the fidelity invariants every
deletion and compression must preserve.
condense — 精简:one canonical home per fact
0. What this skill does
A whole-document sweep that removes all content which is unnecessary or
already stated elsewhere in the document, then proves the result with the
mechanical length gate. It is the plugin's redundancy/length action surface:
paper-review dimension I detects redundancy as findings; condense
executes the removal. --report-only stops after §1: the ranked redundancy
map is returned with no deletion applied.
Boundary with /sci-paper:de-ai (canonical statement, mirrored there):
de-ai removes the authorship fingerprint (L0-L4 signals, structural tells,
voice; its Pass-3 length cap only guards its own rewrites against growth).
condense removes redundancy and length (cross-document deduplication under
one-canonical-home-per-fact). At the overlap (verbose AI-isms such as
rule-of-three padding or connective stacking), de-ai DETECTS the tell; when
the right fix is deletion rather than rewrite, the deletion EXECUTES under
condense's ranked sweep.
0.1 Non-negotiable rules
- Preference order: delete > condense-in-place > same-length rewrite.
Growth is forbidden; the only exceptions are §5.3's own (author-requested
new content, or a source-verified scientific necessity), each with a
recorded justification.
- Fidelity invariants (§6). Every surviving passage preserves claims,
numbers, units, uncertainties, citations, named entities, comparison
direction, negation, causal direction, scope, stance, qualifiers, and
logical dependencies. Never delete a fact's sole support: dedup keeps
exactly one canonical home; the copies are deleted or replaced by a
cross-reference — the fact itself never vanishes.
- One canonical home per fact. A number, definition, or claim stated in
two places is a defect with one exception (rule 4). The canonical home is
where the reader needs it — normally the most detailed, first-consumed
occurrence.
- Genre carve-out. The abstract's summary of key results and the
conclusion's restatement of the take-home message are scholarly
convention, NOT duplication. Everything else that has a home elsewhere
goes.
- Forward narrative. Removal never leaves a scar ("as discussed above,
we omit..."); the text reads as if written short from the start.
- Deletions are evidence-backed. A "dead" symbol, figure, table, or
definition is deleted only after a whole-document grep proves nothing
consumes it; the grep evidence goes in the report.
1. Measure — build the redundancy map
- Read the target file completely. Resolve
--field as in
/sci-paper:de-ai §1 (shared style-profile convention).
- Snapshot the length baseline before any edit:
cp <file> <scratch>/length-baseline.tex (or record the clean git ref).
Without an honest baseline the closing gate is meaningless.
- Build the redundancy map, four sweeps:
- (a) Cross-section duplicates. Grep every number/macro and scan each
section pair for the same claim, definition, or figure description
stated twice. Record: content, all locations, proposed canonical home.
- (b) Zero-information-gain text. Paragraphs or sentences that add no
claim, definition, evidence, qualification, or necessary link —
assurance refrains, restated setup, roadmap prose the structure already
carries.
- (c) Dead artifacts. Defined-but-unused symbols,
\labels never
\ref'd, figures/tables never cited, definitions never consumed — each
with the grep output that proves deadness.
- (d) Verbose constructions. Multi-sentence spans whose content
survives in fewer words (nominalization chains, redundant qualifiers,
repeated glosses of the same symbol).
- Rank the map by removable mass (largest duplication first).
2. Act — ranked removal
For each map entry, in rank order:
- Duplicates (a): choose the canonical location; delete the copies, or
where the distant reader genuinely needs the pointer, replace with a
cross-reference (
Section~\ref{...}); re-read both sites in context.
- Zero-gain text (b): delete. If a fragment carries one load-bearing
clause, fold that clause into the neighboring sentence — do not keep the
paragraph for one clause.
- Dead artifacts (c): delete the artifact and every orphaned mention;
re-run the deadness grep afterward to confirm nothing dangles.
- Verbose spans (d): rewrite shorter. Gate every shortened rewrite with
python tools/rewrite_reward.py --reference <claim-record> --original <span> --candidates ... — a candidate that drops a protected invariant is
ineligible regardless of its brevity; among eligible candidates the
shorter wins.
Apply each change with a minimal Edit and re-read the affected region plus
every cross-reference into it.
3. Verify — prove the shrink
- Length gate:
python tools/length_gate.py <file> --before <scratch>/length-baseline.tex. Required outcome: exit 0 with a
zero-or-negative net delta for a pure condensation pass. Any
length-growth:<section> finding must be dispositioned (condense back, or
record the §5.3 justification) before the pass may close.
- No orphans: rebuild/compile the document if it is LaTeX (0 errors,
0 undefined references, no newly-missing labels); grep every deleted label
and symbol to confirm zero remaining consumers.
- Fidelity: re-check the §6 invariants over every edited span against
the snapshot; every number, citation, and claim in the final text traces
to the same source as before.
4. Loop until dry
Repeat §1-§3 over the whole document until two consecutive full sweeps
find nothing removable. A single clean sweep is not convergence; simple
counters miss the tail that the first removal round exposes.
5. Report
# condense — Report
Target: <file> | Baseline: <snapshot/ref> | Sweeps: K (last 2 dry)
Net length delta: <words, per section and total — zero or negative>
## Removed duplicates
- <content> : canonical home <loc>; copies removed <locs>
## Deleted (zero-gain / dead artifacts)
- <item> : deadness evidence <grep summary>
## Compressed spans
- <loc>: <before-words> -> <after-words>; eligibility PASS
## Dispositions
- <any length-growth findings and their recorded justifications>
No number, citation, claim, or sole-support fact was deleted.
6. Anti-patterns
- Appending an explanation instead of deleting the redundancy (the §5.3
explanatory patch — the exact disease this skill exists to cure).
- Deleting a fact's only occurrence because it "felt repeated" — dedup
requires proving the survivor exists.
- Gutting the abstract or conclusion under the dedup rule (genre carve-out).
- Trimming hedges, uncertainties, or qualifiers to save words — those are
protected invariants, not padding.
- Declaring convergence after one clean sweep.
- Leaving removal scars or drafting-history narration in the text.
- Doing de-ai's job: structural-tell rewriting (voice, templates, L0 words)
belongs to
/sci-paper:de-ai; condense only deletes and compresses.
7. Interfaces
docs/SCIPAPER_STANDARD.md — §5.3 (the policy this skill executes), §6
(fidelity invariants), §0 (consequence classes and dispositions).
tools/length_gate.py — the mechanical closing gate (exit 0/1/2).
tools/rewrite_reward.py — eligibility + condensation ranking for
shortened rewrites.
/sci-paper:paper-review — dimension I findings are this skill's input
queue.
/sci-paper:de-ai — the authorship-fingerprint surface (boundary in §0).