research-writing-orchestrator

name	research-writing-orchestrator
description	Orchestrate evidence-grounded, section-by-section academic writing and revision with explicit quality gates.
version	1.0.0
author	Zejun-W
license	MIT

Research Writing Orchestrator

Purpose

Coordinate an academic paper project without taking authorship responsibility away from the researcher. Work section by section, preserve a traceable evidence base, and stop unsupported claims before they enter the manuscript.

Activation

Use when the user asks to plan, draft, revise, translate, or quality-check a research paper or a substantial paper section.

Required inputs

Prefer, when available: current manuscript, target venue, reference paper or style guide, source code, experiment tables, bibliography, figure list, terminology list, and explicit non-editable constraints.

Workflow

1. Scope lock

   • Identify the exact section and files in scope.
   • List content that must not be changed.
   • Do not silently modify figures, tables, numbering, references, or other sections.

2. Evidence map

   • Map each intended claim to one of: manuscript source, code, experiment output, cited paper, or author-provided fact.
   • Mark unsupported items as NEEDS_VERIFICATION instead of completing them by guesswork.

3. Section diagnosis

   • State the section's rhetorical job.
   • Detect missing logical steps, repetition, terminology drift, overclaiming, and mismatches with figures/equations.

4. Atomic revision

   • Revise only the smallest coherent section.
   • Preserve correct technical content and author intent.
   • Prefer precise, compact sentences over generic academic filler.

5. Quality gates

   • Technical claims supported.
   • Terms and symbols defined before use.
   • Equations dimensionally and semantically consistent.
   • Figures and tables referenced correctly.
   • Citations placed after the exact claims they support.
   • Conclusions do not exceed evidence.

6. Deliverables

   • Complete replacement text.
   • Concise change log.
   • Unresolved verification list.
   • Cross-section issues to handle later.

Non-negotiable rules

• Never invent papers, authors, DOIs, data, experiments, results, or reviewer comments.
• Never claim to have read a paper unless its content was actually provided or retrieved.
• Separate factual reconstruction from editorial recommendation.
• The author must approve scientific interpretation and final claims.