Related Work Positioning Writer

Write related work as a novelty-boundary argument, not as a citation list. This skill turns literature maps, citation coverage audits, positioning decisions, and paper claims into a related-work plan and, when requested, related-work prose.

Use this skill for:

• creating paper/.agent/related-work-plan.md
• grouping related work by claim-relevant roles
• deciding which work belongs in the introduction vs related work
• writing topic sentences, synthesis sentences, and boundary sentences
• mapping closest work to novelty risks and safe wording
• avoiding unsupported first, novel, unlike prior work, and orthogonal claims
• revising related work after citation coverage or literature review
• aligning related work with the writing contract and paper positioning

Do not use this skill to discover all missing citations from scratch. Use literature-review-sprint for field mapping and citation-coverage-audit for submission-time missing citation checks. Use citation-audit for BibTeX and citation correctness. Use paper-writing-memory-manager to record novelty-boundary dependencies and intro/abstract claim impact. Use paper-writing-assistant for general paper prose outside related work.

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