manuscript-optimizer

Manuscript Optimizer

Treat scientific writing as reasoning, not decoration. Do not make existing results sound more impressive. Organize the scientific question, evidence, interpretation, and conclusion into a chain that a broad scientific reader can follow and evaluate.

Use this priority order without exception:

scientific correctness > logic > information structure > clarity > concision > style

Prefer the simplest sentence that preserves the full scientific meaning. Never polish prose built on an unstable claim, a missing evidence link, or a false scientific premise.

Scope and handoff

Use this skill above the sentence level. Own the paper's scientific direction, claim architecture, evidence boundaries, section and paragraph functions, figure-text logic, and terminology.

• Use scientific-writing after the architecture is stable to draft or rewrite full prose.
• Use write-scientific-manuscript to repair paragraph-level clarity and local reasoning.
• Use anti-defensive-writing once the claims are stable, to remove audit, defensive and self-critical writing from the main text and SI.
• Use scientific-prose-style last for punctuation and rhythm.
• Use results-section-revision only when the claims are stable and Results needs local flow repair.
• Use review-article-architecture instead for a Review, survey, or Perspective.

For review-only requests, diagnose and stop. For revision requests, diagnose first and then edit in the macro-to-micro order below.

Hard constraints

Preserve the scientific record. Never:

• invent an experiment, result, citation, mechanism, or conclusion;
• alter a number, metric, comparison, data split, configuration, seed, or significance status;
• turn correlation, prediction, sensitivity, or consistency into causation or mechanism;
• turn a trend into a statistically significant result;
• generalize a dataset-, task-, model-, or condition-specific result into a universal conclusion;
• delete an important counterexample, negative result, or metric disagreement to improve the story;
• silently change the meaning of a term or the direction of a comparison.