paper-polisher

Paper Polisher

Scope and References

Use this skill for TeX-safe academic English polishing, translation, proofreading, source-to-output verification, terminology or notation review, numerical-consistency review, and explicitly authorized notation normalization.

For full papers, long sections, verification, consistency audits, normalization, or strict style-guide work, read references/tex_safe_polishing.md before acting. Read references/tex_safe_polishing_zh.md instead when Chinese-facing workflow guidance is materially useful; do not load both merely to duplicate context. For a short local polish, use the core rules below and consult a reference only when needed.

Do not use this skill as the main tool for:

• novelty, contribution-defensibility, dangerous-baseline, or reviewer-attack audits; use idea-novelty-auditor if available;
• literature review, gap framing, reference selection, or citation-role assignment; use problem-driven-literature-review if available;
• broad storyline, introduction structure, or experiment-to-claim redesign; use paper-argument-reconstructor if available.

When a request combines those tasks with polishing, complete the upstream reasoning task first and use this skill only for the final faithful language and consistency pass.

Mode Selection and Precedence

Follow the user's explicit requested action before considering who produced the input. Provenance alone never overrides an explicit request to polish, audit, verify, or normalize. If more than one action is requested, keep their artifacts and reports separate unless the user asks for a combined deliverable.

Mode-specific output rules take precedence over output rules based on document length. In particular, a full-manuscript verification or consistency-only audit remains report-only.

If the user requests both notation normalization and prose polishing, perform and approve normalization first, treat the normalized TeX as the new baseline, and then polish against that baseline. Do not try to validate a combined prose-and-symbol change as one normalization comparison.