Scientific Writing — Stage 3: Draft

Overview

Turn the approved outline.md into full prose, then enforce the style guide in a separate pass. Two phases:

1. Draft — section-by-section prose from the outline, in the user's voice. Content fidelity is the priority.
2. Style correction — a dedicated subagent re-reads the full style guide with fresh context and corrects the whole draft.

Why split them: during a long drafting conversation the style guide drifts out of context and its rules stop being applied. A final subagent whose only context is the style guide + the draft applies the guide cleanly.

Every sentence traces to an outline bullet — drafting does not introduce new claims.

Load context first

Read: story.md, outline.md, references.md, and the selected style guide. Default style: styles/dlaub-style.md (this skill's directory). If multiple styles exist in styles/, ask the user which to use. Record the chosen guide's path — Phase 2 needs it.

Phase 1 — Draft (per section)

1. Write prose for the section from its outline.md bullets, in the voice of the selected style guide.
2. Fidelity review — every claim still traces to an outline.md bullet and its backing pointer/references.md entry. No new unbacked claims, no dropped figure callouts, no altered numbers.
3. Next section.