manuscript-developer

What problem does it solve?

Researchers spend significant time drafting manuscripts to translate technical summaries and literature reviews into publishable documents. This Skill reads a MODEL_SUMMARY.md or code review, synthesizes literature context, and generates a fully structured manuscript draft as a .docx file using python-docx. The draft includes title block, abstract, introduction, results, discussion, methods, references, and supplementary sections, with color-coded TODO/NOTE/FIGURE/TABLE callouts for easy editing. Trigger this skill when the user wants to write a paper, create a manuscript draft, start a manuscript, or turn a model summary and literature review into a paper structure. Phrases like: "write a manuscript", "draft a paper", "create a manuscript", "start writing the paper", "turn this into a manuscript", "manuscript draft".

Core Features & Use Cases

• Reads MODEL_SUMMARY.md or code review and synthesizes literature context to a publication-ready structure.
• Generates a fully structured .docx manuscript with sections: title block, abstract, introduction, results, discussion, methods, references, and supplementary sections.
• Uses color-coded callouts for TODO/NOTE/FIGURE/TABLE to guide editing.
• Output is a ready-to-edit .docx document suitable for submission after minor author adjustments.
• Trigger phrases include: "write a manuscript", "draft a paper", "create a manuscript", "start writing the paper", "turn this into a manuscript".

Quick Start

Provide MODEL_SUMMARY.md and any literature-review notes, then run the manuscript-developer skill to generate a draft manuscript.