paper-writing

Paper Writing

Overview

This skill implements the exact Hierarchical Manuscript Drafting and Iterative Refinement process described in section 4.4 of the NeuroClaw architecture and the accompanying flowchart.

It acts as the Manuscript Composer within an end-to-end multi-agent framework:

• Reads the latest versions of IDEA.md, METHOD.md, and EXPERIMENT.md from the current workspace (continuously updated by the related skills research-idea, method-design, and experiment-controller).
• If any of the three files are missing or empty, it immediately prompts the user to provide the research idea, experimental methods, and results before proceeding.
• First asks the user whether the final output should be plain text (.md) or LaTeX (.tex).
• When LaTeX format is selected, it asks the user to provide a custom template file (e.g., template.tex). If none is supplied, it automatically uses the default IEEE template (conference or journal version with appropriate \documentclass, packages, and structure).
• When processing EXPERIMENT.md, if sufficient quantitative results are present (metrics, comparisons, ablation studies, numerical values, etc.), the skill automatically generates and inserts well-formatted tables (Markdown tables for plain-text mode; proper LaTeX tabular or table environment for LaTeX mode) into the Results and Discussion sections.
• Then executes the hierarchical flow step by step (never one-shot generation), saving the output of every single step as a separate Markdown file in the workspace root (e.g., 01_section_content.md, 02_ethics_review.md, ..., 10_final_draft.md). This enforces incremental execution and allows OpenClaw to resume or inspect progress at any stage.

The process preserves narrative coherence, reuses semantic anchors from previous sections, automatically generates figures from experimental logs, ensures ethical dataset citation, improves scientific storytelling, verifies cross-references, and applies self-healing compilation for LaTeX.