What problem does it solve? Before drafting prose, researchers need a coherent logical skeleton connecting background, limitations, key idea, challenges, methodology modules, and contributions. This Skill structures that skeleton and audits the logic chain so weak or incoherent paper plans are caught before writing begins. ## Core Features & Use Cases - Thinking-Template Filling: Fills seven template cells (background, limitations, key idea/goal, challenges, methodology modules, contributions) with per-cell content contracts and gap severity marking. - Paper-Type Positioning: Classifies the paper as Technique, New Problem/Setting, or cross-domain Technique, and redirects benchmark papers to the appropriate template. - Four Self-Consistency Checks: Verifies limitations-to-idea, idea-to-challenges, challenges-to-methodology, and methodology-to-contributions alignment, flagging every failure as critical. - Use Case: A PhD student preparing for an advisor meeting describes their idea; the Skill produces a filled thinking template, a methodology outline, and a consistency report showing exactly where the logic chain breaks. ## Quick Start Use the phd-tech-paper-template skill to build the paper skeleton and logic chain for my research idea on inference-time search for text-to-SQL.
