mr-fang-vlsi/academic-writing-quality-assessor

Academic Writing Quality Assessor

When to use

Use this skill when the user asks to:

1. check thesis/paper/proposal formatting and manuscript consistency,
2. run grammar review with minimal false positives,
3. unify terminology, equation/citation style, or figure/table conventions,
4. clean LaTeX hygiene issues such as case-mismatched graphics paths, stale chapters, or front-matter drift.

Do not use this skill for slide drafting/refinement; use academic-presentation-crafter or academic-slide-refiner instead.

Scope Boundary

This skill owns manuscript quality assurance and writing-side consistency. It does not own domain experiment execution, paper search, or physical-design conclusions.

Knowledge And Tool Interaction

1. Treat the active manuscript source tree as the primary evidence source.
2. Use scripts/common/latex_writing_audit.py before large cleanup or when active-file boundaries are unclear.
3. When the manuscript task also requires shared KB/tool retrieval, delegate lookup to eda-context-accessor.
4. Prefer minimal-intrusion edits: fix correctness and consistency first, then style.
5. Archive or remove stale chapters/assets only after confirming they are outside the active include/input closure.

Workflow

1. Build or inspect the current LaTeX project state.
2. Determine the active chapter/input/bibliography/graphics closure.
3. Review in this order:
   • build blockers and references,
   • front matter correctness,
   • chapter naming/structure consistency,
   • terminology consistency,
   • must-fix grammar errors,
   • low-risk style cleanup.
4. Only after active assets are known, clean stale chapters or duplicate figures.

Operational References

1. Load references/writing-qa-playbook.md for the full manuscript QA checklist and review order.
2. Load references/thesis-writing-onboarding.md when the task is dissertation/thesis assembly from proposal + papers.
3. Load references/scripts/scripts__common__latex_writing_audit.py when you need exact behavior of the audit script or want to mirror/patch it.