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Polishes existing academic prose while preserving the author's meaning: grammar and flow repair, tone calibration against evidence strength, AI-tone removal, and Chinese-to-English rewriting at submission quality. Never fabricates data, citations, or claims, and flags any edit that could change scientific meaning. Use when the user asks to polish a draft, fix awkward wording, remove AI flavor, translate a Chinese manuscript into publishable English, or tone down overclaiming. Proofread and verify academic papers in LaTeX. Runs 19 sequential checks covering titles, consistency, citations, formatting, theoretical tension in motivation, concise results reporting, cross-section repetition, em-dash usage, and auxiliary-text-to-footnote conversion. Trigger when user says "check paper" / "proofread" / "paper-checker" / "校对" / "核查论文".
The two skills share the name and the high-level goal of improving an academic manuscript, but they define different procedures. The HKUSTDial skill is a language-level polishing method focused on preserving the author's meaning, removing AI tone, and handling Chinese-to-English rewriting, with explicit rules against fabricating content and a conservative, single-pass workflow. The brycewang-stanford skill is a LaTeX-specific, 19-step proofreading and verification workflow that includes structural checks (titles, consistency, storyline, theoretical tension), a strict interactive approval loop for every issue, and file-scanning initialization. Neither copy is a reproduction or shortening of the other; crowning one would hide a real alternative approach to 'paper polish'.