Related Work Writer

Related work is not a bibliography in paragraph form. It is the part of the paper that teaches the reader which intellectual neighborhood the contribution belongs to and why the current paper is still needed.

Use this when

• The user has papers, notes, or a source map and wants Related Work prose.
• A draft reads like a citation laundry list.
• The user needs to position their work without overstating novelty.
• The user wants to group prior work thematically.
• The paper needs fair contrasts against baselines, methods, datasets, or theory lines.

Do not use this when

• The literature has not been gathered or checked. Use literature-triangulation first.
• The user is writing a standalone survey, tutorial, review, or perspective paper. Use survey-paper-writer.
• The user needs the whole paper argument. Use paper-argument-planner.
• The user only needs BibTeX formatting or citation cleanup.