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Scientific Writing Assistant

Draft and audit scientific manuscripts with evidence tracking, reporting-guideline checks, and consistency controls

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Repository
K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills
Stars
55,780
Licence
MIT
Files
15 files

What it does

Once installed, the agent helps write and check scientific papers and reports in a more disciplined way. It separates drafting from verifying, links each factual or numeric claim to recorded evidence IDs, points to the right reporting guideline (such as CONSORT or PRISMA) for the study design, and flags missing or inconsistent details rather than filling them in. It also reminds the user about confidentiality, authorship accountability, and AI disclosure.

Great for

  • Researchers preparing a manuscript, thesis chapter, or technical report who want traceable citations and claims
  • Students learning how reporting guidelines and evidence provenance work in scientific writing
  • Research teams auditing a draft for consistency between methods, results, and tables

Skip it if

  • Generating references, DOIs, or results without a human checking the sources, since the skill forbids invention but cannot itself verify literature
  • Sending unpublished or restricted manuscripts or patient data to external AI services without institutional authorization, because the skill itself warns against this
  • Replacing expert review of de-identification, ethics, or journal policy compliance

Try asking

  • “Draft the methods section for a randomized trial and flag any missing reporting items from CONSORT 2025”
  • “Set up a local draft workspace with source, claim, and consistency manifests for my manuscript”
  • “Check my results section for mismatched sample sizes, denominators, or units against my methods”
  • “Help me choose which reporting guideline applies to a cohort study and what to verify in the current checklist”
Step-by-step guide: how to use Scientific Writing AssistantInstall, first run, examples, tips and FAQs

Install in 3 steps

  1. 1

    Download the skill

    The ZIP contains the 15 original files, the MIT licence and an attribution note.

    scientific-writing.zip
  2. 2

    Add it to your agent

    Claude Code (all projects)

    mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && unzip scientific-writing.zip -d ~/.claude/skills/

    Claude Code / Agent SDK (this project only)

    mkdir -p .claude/skills && unzip scientific-writing.zip -d .claude/skills/

    Claude apps (web/desktop): Settings → Capabilities → Skills → Upload skill, and choose the ZIP.

  3. 3

    Ask for the task

    No special command needed — the agent reads the skill's description and loads it when your request matches. Try one of the prompts above.

Get better results

  • Keep manuscripts local and only use external AI services after checking your journal, institutional, and consent policies; the skill does not do this check for you.
  • Have a human open each source and record verification before trusting any citation or claim the agent produces.
  • Ask the agent to list unresolved issues and missing information first, then draft only from the verified evidence outline.

What's inside

  • assets/authorship_template.json
  • assets/claim_evidence_template.csv
  • assets/consistency_manifest_template.json
  • assets/manuscript_manifest_template.json
  • assets/manuscript_scaffold.md
  • assets/REPORT_FORMATTING_GUIDE.md
  • assets/reporting_coverage_template.json
  • assets/reporting_guidelines.json
  • assets/source_manifest_template.json
  • references/authorship_ai_confidentiality.md
  • references/citation_styles.md
  • references/cli_reference.md
  • references/evidence_workflow.md
  • references/figures_tables.md
  • SKILL.md

Redistributed unmodified from K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills under the MIT licence. The assessment was drafted with AI from the skill's files on 2026-10-29. Skills can instruct your agent to run code — read SKILL.md and any scripts before installing.