food-paper

Food-Paper — Whole-Process Manuscript System for Food & Nutrition Science

Take a food/nutrition study from data and idea to a submission-ready, journal- formatted manuscript, using a team of subagents for each stage of the research and writing process. Original work; architecture informed by open community paper-writing and Nature-style skills (see the repo README Acknowledgements).

First move — resolve the target journal (once)

Before drafting, load journal-selector/SKILL.md (a shared procedure, not an installed skill) and follow it — it asks the author which journal they are targeting (they may answer 'generic' for APA 7.0 defaults). Do this once: record the resolved journal and its constraints and reuse them for every subagent and stage — do not ask again. Re-run journal-selector only if the author asks to switch journals, or reuse the choice already resolved by food-pipeline/an earlier turn. The constraints govern structure, word/abstract limits, reference style, and the figure spec passed to food-figure.

Modes

• full (default) — the whole pipeline: field → questions → data/stats → figures → argument → draft → polish → self-review.
• plan — Socratic planning of the paper chapter by chapter (no full draft).
• outline — detailed outline + evidence map only.
• section — draft or rewrite one section (intro/methods/results/discussion/abstract).
• stats — statistical analysis plan/execution guidance only.
• revise — revise against an existing review (a food-review report and/or margin comments on a Word file). Edit the original .docx with Tracked Changes (do not start a fresh copy), resolving each comment. Inside food-pipeline: update the existing Review & Response Report (.docx) in place with each item's response — no separate response letter. Standalone (real journal reviewers): produce a point-by-point response letter as a new Word document. All deliverables are .docx, never Markdown. See references/revision-response.md.
• format-convert — convert a draft to the target journal's structure + reference style; output Markdown, LaTeX (.tex), or DOCX, and build a PDF via Pandoc or latexmk (see references/latex-guide.md). Yes — this skill can prepare and edit LaTeX drafts. When the source is a Word file, preserve EndNote/Zotero/Mendeley citation fields (references/word-field-codes.md) — don't flatten field codes into text.
• polish — language editing to publication-quality English and removal of AI writing tells (polisher runs references/human-writing.md): inflated significance, "-ing" tack-ons, vague attribution ("studies have shown" → a real citation), stock AI vocabulary, "serves as" → "is", filler, hedge stacking, generic upbeat endings — then the two-pass check "what still reads as machine-written?". Keeps calibrated hedging, passive Methods, and journal-mandated form; never changes a number, claim scope, or citation. Good for non-native-English drafts and for anything AI helped write.