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paper-writer

Skill card

combined

The two skills share the name 'paper-writer' but define fundamentally different procedures. The HKUSTDial skill is a general-purpose, evidence-discipline-focused prose generator that operates on user materials and verified retrieval, explicitly avoiding LaTeX and specific empirical workflows. The brycewang-stanford skill is a specialized, LaTeX-focused workflow for empirical finance/economics papers that requires a PDF input, reads tables/figures, and follows a specific 'write results first' assembly order. They do not reproduce or shorten each other; they are distinct tools for different stages and types of academic writing.

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Combined skill

---
name: paper-writer
description: >-
  Drafts academic paper prose. Use the General mode for STEM/non-STEM prose from
  notes/ideas with strict evidence tracing. Use the Empirical LaTeX mode for
  finance/economics papers where a PDF of tables/figures is provided.
---

# Paper Writer

## Mode Selection

1. **General Prose Mode**: Use when the user provides notes, ideas, or results
   and wants publishable prose (paragraph to full manuscript) without a specific
   LaTeX template or PDF of tables.
2. **Empirical LaTeX Mode**: Use when the user provides a PDF containing
   tables/figures for an empirical finance/economics paper and wants LaTeX
   output.

## General Prose Mode (HKUSTDial)

### Hard Rules
1. Every factual claim must trace to user materials, verified retrieval, or
   field common knowledge (no numbers/names).
2. Zero placeholder tags in output.
3. No invented details.
4. Claim strength matches evidence strength.
5. Distinguish real vs. planned results.

### Workflow
1. **Scope**: Determine granularity (full paper vs. section), paradigm (STEM,
   humanities, etc.), and mode (Draft vs. Final).
2. **Evidence**: Inventory user materials. Build literature pool via search.
   Identify gaps. Create Evidence Map for full papers.
3. **Blueprint**: Route by paradigm. Use CER skeleton for non-STEM.
4. **Draft**: Write prose adhering to evidence rules.
5. **Review**: Verify citations and claims.
6. **Deliver**: Clean prose with delivery note.

## Empirical LaTeX Mode (brycewang-stanford)

### Input
- PDF path containing tables and figures.

### Workflow
1. **Initialization**: Read PDF, map tables/figures to sections, confirm plan
   with user, set output path (`main.tex`).
2. **Empirical Results (Write First)**: For each section, ask user for word
   count, read relevant PDF pages, write LaTeX section, append to `main.tex`.
3. **Research Design**: Write Data/Sample and Variable Construction sections.
4. **Lit Review & Hypotheses**: Write Literature Review and Hypothesis
   Development.
5. **Introduction & Abstract**: Write Introduction, Title, Abstract, and
   Institutional Background.
6. **Conclusion**: Write Conclusion.
7. **Assembly**: Finalize `main.tex` with correct document order (Intro, Lit
   Review, Design, Results, Conclusion).

## Conflicts
- **HKUSTDial/Supervisor-Skills**: Focuses on evidence tracing and general
  prose; does not require PDF or LaTeX.
- **brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills**: Requires PDF input,
  outputs LaTeX, and follows a specific empirical writing order.