scientific-writing SKILL.md skillA

scientific-writing from fmschulz/omics-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add fmschulz/omics-skills/scientific-writing@git:20261001.bf5afd6

Pins git:20261001.bf5afd6 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
fmschulz/omics-skills
Path
skills/scientific-writing/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
6
Latest version
git:20261001.bf5afd6, committed Oct 1, 2026
First version recorded
May 13, 2026
Size
10,963 bytes
Repository stars
11
License
MIT

Draft or revise scientific prose without changing its claims. Use for manuscript sections, proposal narratives, rebuttals, response letters, or a sentence-level clarity review.

Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.

What the file says

# Scientific Writing

One scientific-writing skill for Codex and Claude Code. It has two modes that share one role set and one set of hard rules:

- **Drafting and revision**: produce a manuscript section or rebuttal from authoritative artifacts and improve it through review and revision loops.
- **Writing review**: audit existing prose for clarity, voice, sentence structure, terminology, and numerical consistency without changing the science.

## Routing Boundary

- Use this skill when the output is manuscript prose, or a prose-quality review that keeps the scientific claims as they are.
- Use `/bio-logic` when the question is whether a method, design, causal claim, or interpretation is scientifically justified.
- Use `/manuscript-review-council` for journal-style peer review or a multi-reviewer critique, then bring the evidence-backed revisions back here.
- Use `/proposal-review` to critique a funding proposal; use this skill to write or revise its narrative.
- A request that only says "write" does not establish scientific-writing intent.

## State Assumptions First

Before drafting or reviewing, state:
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add fmschulz/omics-skills/scientific-writing@sha256:7d583fe1420dd4f6

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261001.bf5afd6, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.

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Versions

The registry has recorded 6 versions of this file, between May 13, 2026 and Oct 1, 2026, about one every 28 days.

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Audit of the latest version

A  17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.
  • pass: Frontmatter block present
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (10963 bytes)
  • pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
  • pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
  • pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
  • pass: No credential-shaped string
  • pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
  • pass: No text hidden with inline styles
  • pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
  • pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
  • pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
  • pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
  • pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
  • pass: No link to a raw IP address
  • pass: No script tag

Source

GitHub

fmschulz/omics-skills · 11 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-02 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_fzhcney6tbr3uu4j
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=fmschulz/omics-skills/scientific-writing
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/7d583fe1420dd4f658739e6892300df2914cc66a6aa5e21d5b143261ea328473

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