Academic PaperCAUTION

Academic Research Skills for Claude Code: research → write → review → revise → finalize

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name: academic-paper
description: "12-agent academic paper writing pipeline. 11 modes (full/plan/outline/revision/revision-coach/abstract/lit-review/format-convert/citation-check/disclosure/rebuttal-audit). 6 paper types, 5 citation formats, bilingual abstracts, LaTeX/DOCX-via-Pandoc/PDF output. Style Calibration + Writing Quality Check + Anti-Patterns with IRON RULE markers. Triggers: write paper, academic paper, guide my paper, parse reviews, I got reviewer comments, revision roadmap, should we push back, conference rebuttal, grant panel response, audit my rebuttal, check my response draft, AI disclosure, check citations, citation check, check my references, verify references, look over the refs, 寫論文, 學術論文, 引導我寫論文, 審查意見, 我收到審查意見, 修訂路線圖, 評估回覆, 檢查引用, 引用檢查, 檢查參考文獻, 核對文獻, 논문 작성, 초록 작성, 논문 수정, 논문 계획을 도와줘, 심사 의견을 받았어, 심사 의견 반영, 답변서 점검, AI 사용 고지, 인용 확인, 인용 형식 검사, enmendar mi artículo, redactar artículo, guía mi artículo, analizar reseñas, auditar mi respuesta, verificar borrador de respuesta, verificar citas, divulgación de IA."
metadata:
  version: "3.3.1"
  last_updated: "2026-08-15"
  status: active
  data_access_level: raw
  task_type: open-ended
  related_skills:
    - deep-research
    - academic-paper-reviewer
    - academic-pipeline
---

# Academic Paper — Academic Paper Writing Agent Team

A general-purpose academic paper writing tool — 12-agent pipeline covering all disciplines, with higher education domain as the default reference.

**v2.5** adds two writing quality features:
- **Style Calibration** (intake Step 10, optional) — Provide 3+ past papers and the pipeline learns your writing voice (sentence rhythm, vocabulary preferences, citation integration style). Applied as a soft guide during drafting; discipline conventions always take priority. See `shared/style_calibration_protocol.md`.
- **Writing Quality Check** (`references/writing_quality_check.md`) — Context-sensitive writing diagnostics applied during the draft self-review step: vague or overused terms, punctuation that interrupts the argument, throat-clearing openers, paragraph and sentence shapes that impair clarity. Prompts for judgment subordinate to author and venue requirements, not quotas (#825).

> **Routing discipline (v3.9.2):** plugin and skills-copy installs do not load this repository's `.claude/CLAUDE.md`, so its routing core is repeated below, identical to `shared/references/routing_core.md` (#892). If routing has not settled when this skill loads, apply the core before dispatching any agent.

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**Step 0 — Escape hatch check (before any classification):** If the user's first message begins with `[direct-mode]` (case-insensitive byte-0 token, optionally preceded by whitespace/newlines that are stripped on parse), record this fact, strip the prefix and surrounding whitespace from the message, and skip directly to **Step 1 explicit-intent handling** on the stripped content. The literal `[direct-mode]` is NOT passed through to the dispatched agent. If the stripped message itself has no clear skill named, Step 1 falls through to Step 3 clarification (the escape hatch bypasses cross-phase clarification (Step 2), not all routing). When the token is honored and the named agent or skill needs inputs the message does not supply, read that agent's or skill's file and ask for what it requires, in its terms. Without the byte-0 token, naming an agent is not explicit intent: such a message goes through Steps 1-3 like any other, so cross-phase materials still get Step 2 clarification.

Otherwise, classify the user's input:

1. **Explicit clear intent** — user invokes a specific skill via `/ars-*` slash command, or uses an unambiguous trigger keyword that maps to a single skill (e.g., "lit-review this", "review my paper", "draft an abstract"):
   → Route directly; no clarification, no orchestrator detour.
   → The request stays explicit when the mode's usual input is absent or a word in it has other everyday senses. A revision request with no reviewer comments is revision mode's "feel certain sections need improvement" case, and "revisar artículo" is the reviewer's trigger. Route to that mode and let the mode handle what is missing; do not reopen the choice of workflow.

2. **Cross-phase materials detected** — user provides artifacts spanning ≥ 2 pipeline phases without naming a specific skill (e.g., pre-written abstract + pre-collected literature; full draft + reviewer comments + bibliography):
   → **Clarify**. Do NOT auto-route to a single-phase agent. List candidate workflows as a-d options in markdown body (NOT via AskUserQuestion tool). See `shared/references/intent_clarification_protocol.md` for the message template.
   → Reason: clarification is the safest action when materials don't unambiguously identify intent. (v3.10 active conductor (#134) will handle this via structured intake; v3.9.2 asks.)

3. **Ambiguous intent, no materials** — user provides no artifacts and no clear request:
   → Clarify per `shared/references/intent_clarification_protocol.md`.

**Anti-pattern (caused #133):** Receiving ambiguous cross-phase materials and silently auto-routing to a single-phase agent based on which phase the materials "look closest to." This bypasses orchestrator-level reconciliation and lets the subagent inherit the full ambiguity without independent oversight.
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## Quick Start

**Minimal command:**
```
Write a paper on the impact of AI on higher education quality assurance
```

```
Write a paper on the impact of declining birth rates on private university management strategies
```

**Execution flow:**
1. Configuration interview — paper type, discipline, citation format, output format
2. Literature search — systematic search strategy, source screening
3. Architecture design — paper structure, outline, word count allocation
4. Argumentation construction — claim-evidence chains, logical flow
5. Full-text drafting — section-by-section draft, register adjustment
6. Citati

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skills/academic-paper

skills/academic-paper-reviewer

skills/academic-pipeline

skills/deep-research

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