papermill

Draft a paper using multi-agent writing system

Design experiments or computational studies

Initialize or refresh a paper repo for papermill

Design or refine the paper structure

Final pre-submission preparation checklist

Bibliographic specialist verifying citation accuracy, relevance, completeness, and related work fairness. Uses web search to verify citations exist and match claims. Launched by the reviewer orchestrator. <example> Context: Orchestrator needs citation verification. user: "Verify all citations in this paper" assistant: "I'll launch the citation-verifier to check every reference for accuracy and relevance." </example> <example> Context: Paper's related work section needs scrutiny. user: "Is the related work section fair and complete?" assistant: "I'll launch the citation-verifier to evaluate related work coverage and citation accuracy." </example>

Specialist writer for mathematical content — definitions, theorems, proofs, derivations, and formal analysis. Produces rigorous LaTeX theorem environments with clear proof structure. Launched by the writer orchestrator during multi-agent drafting. <example> Context: Orchestrator needs theory sections drafted. user: "Write the main results section with proofs" assistant: "I'll launch the formal-writer to draft theorems, proofs, and derivations." </example> <example> Context: Paper needs a preliminaries section with definitions. user: "Draft the preliminaries with notation and key definitions" assistant: "I'll launch the formal-writer to establish the mathematical framework." </example>

Manuscript production specialist ensuring the paper builds cleanly and meets venue formatting requirements. Checks LaTeX/Markdown/RMarkdown compilation, label resolution, BibTeX integrity, and venue compliance. Launched by the reviewer orchestrator. <example> Context: Orchestrator needs build and format verification. user: "Check if this paper builds correctly and meets formatting requirements" assistant: "I'll launch the format-validator to verify compilation and venue compliance." </example> <example> Context: Paper needs pre-submission formatting check. user: "Does this paper meet the formatting requirements for the target venue?" assistant: "I'll launch the format-validator to check venue compliance and build integrity." </example>

Field surveyor that maps the landscape of competing and related approaches for a paper under review. Searches broadly at multiple levels of specificity to find competing approaches, benchmarks, and state-of-the-art comparisons. Launched by the reviewer orchestrator. <example> Context: Orchestrator needs broad literature context for review. user: "Survey the field around this paper's topic" assistant: "I'll launch the broad literature scout to map competing and related approaches." </example> <example> Context: Paper needs contextualization within its research area. user: "What is the landscape of related work for this paper?" assistant: "I'll launch the broad literature scout to find competing approaches and benchmarks." </example>

Direct comparison specialist that finds the closest related work to a paper under review. Focuses on papers addressing the exact same problem, using the same techniques, or making overlapping claims. Launched by the reviewer orchestrator. <example> Context: Orchestrator needs targeted comparisons for novelty assessment. user: "Find the closest competing work to this paper" assistant: "I'll launch the targeted literature scout to find direct comparisons and overlapping claims." </example> <example> Context: Paper's novelty needs verification against specific prior work. user: "Has anyone done exactly this before?" assistant: "I'll launch the targeted literature scout to find the most directly competing work." </example>

This skill should be used when the user asks to "draft my paper", "write the paper", "bootstrap a draft", "generate a manuscript", "write the first draft", "create a paper draft", or needs to produce a full or partial manuscript draft. Launches a multi-agent writing system with specialist writers for literature, formal content, methodology, and results, orchestrated by a lead author agent. Produces a manuscript draft and section-level artifacts in .papermill/drafts/. Updates .papermill/state.md.

This skill should be used when the user asks to "design an experiment", "plan my experiments", "set up a benchmark", "how should I test my thesis", "design a computational study", or needs to plan experiments for a research paper. Covers hypothesis formulation, variable identification, methodology selection, and success criteria definition. Produces a structured experiment plan with reproducibility in mind.

This skill should be used when the user asks to "initialize a paper", "start a new paper project", "set up papermill", "onboard this repo", "refresh papermill", "update papermill state", or needs to create or update the .papermill/state.md state file. On new repos: discovers structure, infers format, gathers author info, creates state file. On existing repos: offers refresh mode that adds missing schema fields and new context without overwriting existing data. Migrates old .papermill.md files to .papermill/state.md automatically.

This skill should be used when the user asks to "outline my paper", "structure the paper", "design the paper sections", "create a paper outline", "organize my argument", or needs to design or refine paper structure. Generates a section-by-section outline with purpose, key arguments, estimated length, and narrative arc. Adapts to the paper type and venue conventions. Updates .papermill/state.md.

This skill should be used when the user asks to "polish my paper for submission", "pre-flight check", "is my paper ready to submit", "final check before submission", "prepare for submission", or needs final preparation before submitting a paper. Performs a systematic pre-flight check covering formatting, citations, figures, metadata, and build verification. Produces a checklist report with suggested fixes.