// Use when deciding which paper-related skill to use or how to sequence manuscript work from project setup through submission and rebuttal.
Use when checking manuscript citations, bibliography hygiene, DOI or PMID completeness, placeholder references, or BibTeX consistency before submission or revision.
Use when drafting, auditing, or revising Data Availability statements, repository plans, accession-number placement, source-data coverage, or restricted-data wording for journal submission or resubmission.
Use when starting a new manuscript project or cleaning up an existing paper directory and you need a standard structure, active source files, project memory, and venue defaults before deeper writing begins.
Use when responding to journal or conference reviewer comments and you need a structured author response, aligned manuscript edits, and clear decisions about when to clarify, add evidence, concede, or respectfully disagree.
Use when writing or revising scientific manuscripts, abstracts, figures, or references for journal submission and you need full-paragraph prose, scientific structure, citation-style guidance, or reporting-guideline support.
Use when a manuscript is close to submission or resubmission and you need a preflight audit for claim support, figure-panel coverage, legend sync, methods references, terminology stability, and venue-facing risks.
| name | paper-workflow |
| description | Use when deciding which paper-related skill to use or how to sequence manuscript work from project setup through submission and rebuttal. |
Use this skill as the routing map for paper work. It does not replace the specialized skills. It tells you which one to use next.
Default assumption: unless the user explicitly names a conference venue, the manuscript should follow the journal-oriented, Nature-style workflow.
When writing follows experiments or analysis performed across multiple sessions, freeze a compact handoff first: current paper story, supported findings, unresolved decisions, and the figure list that actually carries those findings.
Use:
paper-bootstrap when a project is new, messy, or missing a source of truthnature-portfolio-playbook when the target is Nature, Nature Methods, Nature Biotechnology, or the venue fit among those journals is still unclearscientific-writing when drafting or rewriting sections in prosemanuscript-optimizer when the paper's claim structure, evidence chain, terminology, or prose need revisionresults-section-revision when the Results section is scientifically stable but the subsection flow, paragraph openings, or argument progression still feel jumpyfigure-planner when the main bottleneck is figure logic, panel roles, or legend synccitation-verifier when bibliography hygiene or source verification is the bottleneckdata-availability when repository plans, accession numbers, source-data coverage, or Data Availability wording are the bottlenecksubmission-audit when the paper is near submission or resubmission and needs a preflight passrebuttal-response when reviewer comments exist and a response letter plus aligned manuscript edits are neededconference-paper-writing only when the user explicitly wants a conference paper for venues such as NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, ACL, AAAI, or COLMFor most journal manuscripts, prefer this order:
paper-bootstrapnature-portfolio-playbook when venue fit or article type is uncertainnotes/project_truth.md, notes/result_summary.md, and notes/paper_handoff.md after any major experimental or figure updatescientific-writing or manuscript-optimizerfigure-plannerresults-section-revision when Results is substantively right but narratively abruptcitation-verifierdata-availabilitysubmission-auditrebuttal-response after external reviewresult_summary.md or paper_handoff.md