Inspect, analyze, and verify

Produce a number, table, or figure that can be reopened. This skill does not choose the research question, lock a protocol, or draft the manuscript. It does not delegate.

Active paper

Resolve the paper from the request, the working directory, or that project's own instructions, such as an AGENTS.md beside the work. Read that paper's scientific notes before changing its files or stating its results. If several papers fit and the task would write, run, or make a paper-specific claim, ask which paper applies.

Leave sibling papers untouched. A sibling draft, bibliography, figure, codebase, or unpublished result is not a citation, a baseline, or reusable text. A shared read-only literature collection may be consulted after each source is checked for this paper. Put new files where this paper already stores that kind of artifact. Do not impose a directory layout, venue name, or tool.

Preserve raw inputs. Match test and uncertainty to the design unit. Figures need axes, units, denominators, uncertainty, and a second encoding besides color. Before a claim, reopen the output. Do not infer causality from association.

Working language

These instructions stay in English. The reply does not.

Write the chat reply, questions, and internal notes in the language the user is writing in. If this paper already keeps those notes in one language, continue in that language. If the request has no clear language, or the user's language and those notes disagree, ask which language to use before writing the note.

Write that language as an original note to a colleague. Do not translate these instructions sentence by sentence. Keep this skill's field names, and terms this paper already uses, as they already appear. In Vietnamese, use a short sentence a lab mate would say, and leave a research term in English when the Vietnamese word would be unclear or mean something else. For example, write "Số này lấy từ file vừa mở lại. Chưa kết luận nguyên nhân." Do not write "Bản ghi này bảo đảm tính liêm chính của đầu ra đã được mở lại."