research-paper-writing

Research Paper Writing

Scope

Use this skill for writing or revising an empirical research manuscript after there is enough experimental evidence to support its method and result claims. For a survey, review, tutorial, taxonomy, or literature-synthesis paper, use survey-paper-writing; do not apply this Skill's baseline, seed, proposed-model, or ablation gate to literature synthesis. For a hybrid survey with an original benchmark, apply this Skill only to benchmark-derived claims.

This skill is not responsible for exploratory experiments or PDF conversion. Use research-project-workflow to orchestrate the full paper project. Use experiment for experiment setup, baselines, model trials, dataset expansion, and experiment-record management. Use paper-search for paper discovery. Use arxiv for arXiv metadata, BibTeX, and citation checks. Use pdf-to-markdown to convert public or user-provided PDFs before reading them deeply.

Non-Negotiable Rule

Do not start writing the manuscript body just because a few small or incomplete experiments exist.

Even when evidence is sufficient, never start drafting the full paper without explicit user consent. Only write the manuscript when the user explicitly says to draft, write, compose, or complete the paper. An initial end-to-end request to complete a paper carries that authority through accepted stages; do not ask again. Without such a directive, produce readiness reports and gap analyses instead.

Writing Readiness Gate

Before drafting Introduction, Method, Experiments, or Abstract, inspect the available experiment evidence.

Read when available:

• <experiment-root>/experiment-record.md
• <experiment-root>/results/
• <experiment-root>/outputs/ only for context or failed-run diagnosis
• <experiment-root>/logs/ only when needed to verify commands or failures
• result summary CSV/JSON/Markdown files
• ablation files and dataset/split manifests

The accepted Experiment handoff selects <experiment-root>: experiments/ for local execution or experiment_ssh/ for SSH execution. These paths are relative to the exact session cwd. Never merge evidence across both roots or guess the mode when the handoff is missing. Follow another existing local layout only when the dispatch explicitly supplies it.