| name | scholar-forge |
| description | End-to-end academic research and writing skill with citation integrity, venue-aware formatting, bilingual CN/EN support (GB/T 7714), and full lifecycle workflows (literature review, IMRaD, thesis, grant, peer review, rebuttal). Fetches live journal guidelines before writing. Use when writing papers, theses, proposals, LaTeX manuscripts, citations, literature reviews, reviewer responses, or any scholarly document. Triggers on 论文, 文献综述, 学位论文, arXiv, BibTeX, IMRaD, PRISMA, rebuttal, grant proposal. |
Scholar Forge
One skill, full academic lifecycle — integrity-first, venue-aware, bilingual.
Non-Negotiables
- No fabricated citations — every reference must be located and verified (title, authors, venue, year, DOI/URL). Mark unverified as
[UNVERIFIED].
- Evidence-first — non-trivial claims need a citation or an explicit result in the document.
- Label source status — peer-reviewed / preprint / grey literature / web.
- Venue before prose — fetch target journal or school guidelines before drafting (see venue-intelligence.md).
- Two-stage writing — outline with claim-evidence map → prose. Never skip outline for full manuscripts.
- Compile or validate — after LaTeX edits, run
latexmk or report the specific error.
Mode Router
Identify the user's task and load the matching task file before writing.
| Mode | Triggers | Task file |
|---|
| Literature review | 综述, survey, PRISMA, systematic review | tasks/literature-review.md |
| Research paper | IMRaD, conference, journal article | tasks/imrad-paper.md |
| Thesis / dissertation | 学位论文, PhD, master's thesis | tasks/thesis.md |
| Grant / proposal | 基金, NSF, NSFC, 国自然, R01 | tasks/grant-proposal.md |
| Peer review | review this paper, 审稿意见 | tasks/peer-review.md |
| Revision / rebuttal | rebuttal, response to reviewers, 修回 | tasks/revision-rebuttal.md |
| Material integration | chat log, notes → paper, vibe writing | tasks/material-integration.md |
If multiple modes apply, confirm priority with the user. Default order: clarify requirements → venue intelligence → discovery → outline → prose → QA.
Execution Plan (show first)
SCHOLAR FORGE — EXECUTION PLAN
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Mode: [from router]
Target venue: [journal / school / funder]
Language: [EN / 中文 / bilingual abstract]
Citation style: [IEEE / APA / ACM / GB/T 7714 / venue-specific]
Reporting: [IMRaD / PRISMA / CONSORT / STROBE / none]
Output: [LaTeX + .bib / Markdown / DOCX via pandoc]
Venue profile: [PENDING → fetch before writing]
Phase 1 — Requirements (ask if missing)
Essential: document type, topic/contribution, target venue, length limit, citation style, deadline, language.
Use this intake template when helpful:
## Scholar Forge Request
**Mode:** [paper / review / thesis / grant / rebuttal / integrate]
**Topic:** [...]
**Venue:** [Nature Methods / IEEE TNNLS / 清华大学学位论文 / NSFC 青年基金]
**Length:** [words or pages]
**Citation:** [auto from venue or specify]
**Data/files:** [@mentions]
**Language:** [EN / 中文]
Phase 2 — Venue Intelligence
Always run for papers, theses, and grants. Do not rely on stale knowledge.
- WebSearch official author guidelines + AI authorship policy for the target venue.
- WebFetch the guidelines page; extract limits, citation style, abstract structure, figure limits, template URL.
- Save
writing_outputs/<project>/venue_profile.yaml using the schema in venue-intelligence.md.
- For Chinese theses, also load chinese-academic.md.
Phase 3 — Discovery & Verification
Search strategy
| Domain | Primary sources |
|---|
| CS / Engineering | Semantic Scholar, arXiv, ACM DL, IEEE Xplore |
| Biomedical | PubMed, PMC, bioRxiv |
| General | OpenAlex, Crossref, Google Scholar |
| Chinese | CNKI 知网, 万方, 维普 (user may need institutional access) |
Query patterns: broad survey → recency filter → exact phrase → snowball from 2–3 anchor papers.
Per-source record
## [citation_key]
- Title / Authors / Year / Venue
- Status: peer-reviewed | preprint | grey
- DOI / URL
- Takeaway (1–2 lines) | Use in: [section]
Maintain references.bib as single source of truth. Run validation when scripts are available:
python scripts/validate_bib.py references.bib
python scripts/check_citations.py paper.tex references.bib
Details: integrity-protocol.md, citation-formats.md.
Phase 4 — Outline & Claim-Evidence Map
Before prose, produce:
- Section outline with word budgets per venue profile.
- Claim-evidence map (template: templates/claim-evidence-map.md).
- Figure/table plan with one-sentence takeaway each.
Phase 5 — Writing
Universal prose rules
- Flowing paragraphs in Abstract, Introduction, Discussion, Conclusion — no bullets unless venue allows structured abstract.
- Active voice preferred ("We measured…").
- Hedge appropriately; avoid AI tells: "remarkably", "delve", "landscape", "it's important to note", "in conclusion" opener.
- Match the paper's established voice; add transition sentences between inserted blocks.
Citation styles
LaTeX
Phase 6 — Quality Assurance
Run before delivery:
Integrity audit
Venue compliance
Writing audit
Reproducibility (if empirical)
Output Deliverables
- Source files (
.tex, references.bib, venue_profile.yaml)
- Brief change log: what was written, integrated, or verified
- Compilation status or validation script output
- Open items flagged for user (paywalled papers, unverified claims)
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