Scientific Writing

One scientific-writing skill for Codex and Claude Code. It has two modes that share one role set and one set of hard rules:

• Drafting and revision: produce a manuscript section or rebuttal from authoritative artifacts and improve it through review and revision loops.
• Writing review: audit existing prose for clarity, voice, sentence structure, terminology, and numerical consistency without changing the science.

Routing Boundary

• Use this skill when the output is manuscript prose, or a prose-quality review that keeps the scientific claims as they are.
• Use /bio-logic when the question is whether a method, design, causal claim, or interpretation is scientifically justified.
• Use /manuscript-review-council for journal-style peer review or a multi-reviewer critique, then bring the evidence-backed revisions back here.
• Use /proposal-review to critique a funding proposal; use this skill to write or revise its narrative.
• A request that only says "write" does not establish scientific-writing intent.

State Assumptions First

Before drafting or reviewing, state: