$npx -y skills add yha9806/academic-writing-toolkit --skill manuscript-reframeReframe academic manuscript drafts that read like engineering reports, module inventories, internal validation packets, or system notes into paper-form scientific arguments with clear gap, contribution chain, results narrative, figure/table roles, AI-assisted component boundaries
| 1 | # /manuscript-reframe - Scientific Manuscript Reframing |
| 2 | |
| 3 | ## Purpose |
| 4 | |
| 5 | Turn a technically valid but report-like manuscript into a scientific paper argument. Use this when a draft contains many modules, raw tables, internal artifact language, scattered figures, or exploratory AI/report-generation material but the scientific gap and contribution are not yet crisp. |
| 6 | |
| 7 | ## Trigger Words |
| 8 | |
| 9 | This skill activates on: `manuscript reframe`, `paper form`, `too much like a report`, `gap and contribution`, `scientific framing`, `journal framing`, `submission clean`, `methods paper`, `/manuscript-reframe`. |
| 10 | |
| 11 | ## Core Rule |
| 12 | |
| 13 | Write around the scientific problem, not the implementation inventory. |
| 14 | |
| 15 | Before editing, force the draft into one sentence: |
| 16 | |
| 17 | ```text |
| 18 | This paper solves [specific reliability / evidence / workflow gap] between [upstream technical output] and [downstream scientific or operator-facing use]. |
| 19 | ``` |
| 20 | |
| 21 | If the sentence cannot be written, do not rewrite sections yet. First produce a gap-and-contribution diagnosis. |
| 22 | |
| 23 | ## Workflow |
| 24 | |
| 25 | ### 1. Locate The Current Draft And Evidence Anchors |
| 26 | |
| 27 | Inspect manuscript sources, figures, tables, supplementary files, result summaries, reference files, and revision reports. Identify which artifacts are canonical and which are exploratory. |
| 28 | |
| 29 | Create a short working note with: |
| 30 | |
| 31 | - manuscript source path |
| 32 | - intended venue or article type |
| 33 | - canonical result artifacts |
| 34 | - exploratory-only artifacts |
| 35 | - forbidden or overclaim risks |
| 36 | - unresolved submission metadata |
| 37 | |
| 38 | ### 2. Diagnose The Paper Spine |
| 39 | |
| 40 | Check whether the Introduction answers: |
| 41 | |
| 42 | 1. What do existing approaches output? |
| 43 | 2. Why is that output insufficient for downstream use? |
| 44 | 3. What gap does this paper evaluate or close? |
| 45 | 4. What is the proposed interface, workflow, or method? |
| 46 | 5. What evidence shows the gap and the method effect? |
| 47 | |
| 48 | Prefer gap forms such as: |
| 49 | |
| 50 | - Perception outputs are not automatically evidence objects. |
| 51 | - Segmentation metrics do not guarantee downstream task reliability. |
| 52 | - Uncertain perception should be routed rather than silently converted into support. |
| 53 | - Reports and interfaces need explicit claim boundaries. |
| 54 | - Machine-readable records must not imply execution permission unless validated for that role. |
| 55 | |
| 56 | ### 3. Rebuild Contributions As A Chain |
| 57 | |
| 58 | Avoid module lists. Use a small contribution chain: |
| 59 | |
| 60 | 1. Problem formulation: define the reliability, evidence, or workflow gap. |
| 61 | 2. Interface definition: convert raw outputs into structured evidence objects. |
| 62 | 3. Bottleneck measurement: quantify where upstream metrics and downstream claims diverge. |
| 63 | 4. Conservative routing: expose reliability-coverage trade-offs and review capture. |
| 64 | 5. Bounded output: produce traceable reports or records without unsupported claims. |
| 65 | |
| 66 | Every contribution should answer: what gap does this close, and what evidence supports it? |
| 67 | |
| 68 | ### 4. Rewrite Results As A Narrative Transition |
| 69 | |
| 70 | Do not present Results as raw artifact counts. Use paragraphs that explain the transition: |
| 71 | |
| 72 | - perception metric: what the frozen model or upstream system achieved |
| 73 | - direct conversion: what fails when outputs are treated as downstream evidence |
| 74 | - gate/routing effect: how selective support changes agreement and coverage |
| 75 | - failure taxonomy: which bottleneck dominates |
| 76 | - bounded output audit: whether reports or records stayed within evidence boundaries |
| 77 | |
| 78 | Keep exact values in tables. In prose, translate audit-zero metrics into natural language when clearer: |
| 79 | |
| 80 | ```text |
| 81 | The audit detected no unsupported statements, contradictions, or prohibited action claims. |
| 82 | ``` |
| 83 | |
| 84 | Do not write prose that sounds like a metric dump: |
| 85 | |
| 86 | ```text |
| 87 | unsupported rate 0.000, contradiction rate 0.000, prohibited rate 0.000 |
| 88 | ``` |
| 89 | |
| 90 | ### 5. Explain Low Values Honestly |
| 91 | |
| 92 | Low support, low coverage, or small denominators are not automatically failures. Identify what they mean: |
| 93 | |
| 94 | - model evidence was missing |
| 95 | - geometry conversion failed |
| 96 | - the gate correctly withheld weak evidence |
| 97 | - the task is intentionally conservative |
| 98 | - the dataset has few evaluable cases |
| 99 | |
| 100 | Use language such as: |
| 101 | |
| 102 | ```text |
| 103 | Low supported coverage indicates conservative evidence routing under the frozen gate, not a direct measure of segmentation accuracy. |
| 104 | ``` |
| 105 | |
| 106 | ### 6. Keep Generative Components In Their Proper Role |
| 107 | |
| 108 | Do not let language-model or multimodal generative experiments steal the manuscript thesis unless they are the locked primary experiment. |
| 109 | |
| 110 | Safe hierarchy: |
| 111 | |
| 112 | - Primary result: deterministic, evidence-grounded, rule-based, or schema-validated workflow. |
| 113 | - Supplementary extension: frozen text-only or image-conditioned formatting tests. |
| 114 | - Future work: live domain reporting, open-ende |