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paper-structure is agent-read markdown (skill) from uchicago-dsi/ai-sci-skills: Organize a scientific manuscript for a specific venue: fix the claim it argues, load the venue's own section skeleton and limits, budget words before drafting, and keep each section doing only its own job. Use when planning, drafting, restructuring, or auditing a paper, abstract, or rebuttal, or when deciding what belongs in which section or what to cut to fit a limit..

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What the file says

# Paper structure

Organization, not sentences. This skill decides what goes where and how much
room it gets. For how a sentence sounds, use `humanize` with the register the
venue file names. For whether a number is trustworthy, use `sensemaking`. For
whether a claim outruns its evidence, use `skeptical-labmate`.

Structure is not universal. A clinical physics manuscript puts Methods before
Results and weaves prior work through the Introduction and Discussion; a
machine learning conference paper gives Related Work its own section and wants
a reproducibility statement; some high-profile journals put Methods last. So
the skeleton comes from the venue, never from habit.

## Start by loading the venue

Read `venues/<venue>.md` before anything else. If the venue has no file, write
one from `venues/_template.md` first — it takes fifteen minutes and every
later decision depends on it. If the venue is genuinely undecided, pick the
most likely one, say so, and expect to restructure.

Check the `verified` date in the file. Limits and required sections change
between cycles. If it is more than a year old, confirm the numbers against the
venue's own page before trusting them for a submission.
…

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A  17 of 17 checks passed. Deterministic, no model, 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 (12474 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
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  • pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
  • pass: No link to a raw IP address
  • pass: No script tag

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uchicago-dsi/ai-sci-skills · 20 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-23 · branch main

API

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