academic-research

Use when drafting or editing academic prose — topic sentences, paragraph structure, APA-style citations, active voice, tense, hedging conventions, term definitions. Fires eagerly on any .qmd / .Rmd / .md / .tex file in an academic-research project. Do NOT use for the revision workflow — use `manuscript-revision` + `/critic-loop`. Do NOT use for factual or citation accuracy — use `grounded-citations` / `empirical-integrity` / `fact-check`.

Use when the user asks to revise, polish, or critique an academic manuscript, chapter, thesis, or paper through parallel critic perspectives. Trigger phrases "/critic-loop", "run critic-loop", "revise this manuscript", "run critics on this draft", "run a critical review", "review this chapter". Invoke as `/critic-loop <document-path>`.

Use when editing manuscripts (.qmd, .Rmd, .ipynb, .tex, .md) that contain numbers, statistics, tables, test results, or methodology facts (search dates, model names, keyword strings). Enforces the rule that every quantitative or methodological claim in prose must come from a pipeline-generated authoritative file via code chunk or inline expression — never hand-typed.

Use when the user asks to fact-check a manuscript, verify citations, audit sources, or check whether cited papers actually support the claims attributed to them. Trigger phrases "fact-check", "verify citations", "audit citations", "check the sources", "do these papers actually say that", "verify the numbers in this draft". Do NOT use during or immediately after `/critic-loop` — the evidence critic inside that loop covers the same ground and burns MCP / Zotero quota twice.

Use when inserting a new citation into academic prose, attributing a finding to a source, or summarising what a paper says. Trigger phrases "cite this", "add a citation for X", "what does Smith (2019) say", "summarise this paper", "attribute this finding". Do NOT use for Zotero library housekeeping — use `zotero-operations`. Do NOT use for auditing an existing draft's citations or for verifying that a cited paper actually supports the claim — use `fact-check`.