Scientific Writing

This is built for writing actual research papers with proper IMRAD structure, citations in APA/AMA/Vancouver, and reporting guidelines like CONSORT or PRISMA. The workflow is two-stage: outline sections with key points from literature lookup, then convert to flowing paragraphs (never bullet points in finals). It enforces visual requirements pretty aggressively, mandating a graphical abstract plus multiple AI-generated schematics for every paper. Use it when you're drafting manuscripts for journal submission, addressing reviewer comments, or need to structure clinical trial reports. The strict paragraph-only rule and built-in figure generation make it opinionated but practical if you're actually writing for publication rather than internal docs.

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$ npx -y skills add k-dense-ai/claude-scientific-skills --skill scientific-writing --agent claude-code

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Scientific Writing

Purpose

Produce clear scientific prose without inventing evidence or concealing uncertainty. Keep drafting, evidence verification, and submission approval as separate stages.

The accountable human authors control scientific decisions and final approval. AI is not an author, and generated fluency is never evidence [SW-S01, SW-S03].

Non-negotiable safety rules

Confidentiality

Do not send unpublished manuscripts, peer-review or editorial material, sensitive or restricted data, PHI or other personal data, proprietary content, or source documents to an external service without:

explicit authorization from a person or body empowered to grant it; and
a documented review of journal, institutional, funder, consent, ethics, contractual, legal, and data-use policy.

When authorization or policy is unclear, keep processing local and use only the minimum metadata needed. De-identification requires expert review; removing obvious names is not sufficient. See references/authorship_ai_confidentiality.md.