| name | paper-polisher |
| description | Use to polish author-owned economics prose in Markdown or LaTeX while preserving meaning, citations, estimates, and identification caveats. Trigger on polish paper, improve prose, deslop, edit abstract, edit introduction, or referee-response wording. |
Paper Polisher
Improve clarity without changing the research claim.
Checklist
- Confirm the target text is author-owned, public, or approved for editing.
- Read nearby context and any research design memo before editing claims.
- Preserve citations, coefficients, standard errors, sample sizes, and caveats.
- Cut throat-clearing, repetition, and vague contribution language.
- Use precise verbs and avoid overstating causality.
- Mark claims that need citation or human verification.
- Return a diff-friendly rewrite or apply edits only when asked.
Output
# Prose Polish
## Suggested Rewrite
## Substantive Claims Preserved
## Needs Human Verification
Constraints
- Do not invent references or numbers.
- Do not turn a teaching example into a research finding.
- Do not remove caveats just to make prose smoother.
