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name: paper-writing
description: Use this when the task is to turn research notes, experiments, or a literature review into a polished paper-style writeup with Markdown and LaTeX.
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# Paper Writing

## When To Use

Use this skill for:
- research reports that should read like a paper
- internal memos with equations or formal structure
- polished writeups of experiments or literature reviews
- converting rough notes into a coherent draft

## Procedure

1. Make sure the underlying claims are already grounded in sources, experiments, or explicit caveats.
2. Build the draft around a proper research structure:
   - title
   - abstract
   - introduction or problem statement
   - related work
   - approach, synthesis, or methodology
   - evidence, experiments, or case studies
   - limitations
   - conclusion
3. Use Markdown by default.
4. Use LaTeX only where equations or notation genuinely improve clarity.
5. Keep claims falsifiable and scoped.
6. Save polished drafts to `papers/`.
7. Add a `Sources` appendix with direct URLs to all inspected references.

## Pitfalls

- Do not use LaTeX for decoration.
- Do not make a draft look more certain than the evidence supports.
- Do not hide missing citations or weak evidence; flag them.

## Deliverable

A readable paper-style draft with:
- explicit structure
- traceable claims
- equations only where useful
- limitations stated plainly