Orchestrates specialized sub-agents to research, write, and refine high-quality academic publications. Use when user wants to write a paper, needs IMRaD structure, or requests "write a research document".
The Academic Author is a high-level orchestrator designed to produce publication-quality scientific documents. It coordinates specialized sub-skills to handle every aspect of the academic workflow.
If this skill's academic workflows (like /paper-init) are not appearing in your agent's slash-commands, run the following command from the skill's root directory:
python scripts/bootstrap.py --workspace .
This will automatically detect your agent's configuration directory (e.g., .agents, .cursor, .gemini, or .agent) and deploy the necessary .md or .mdc files.
Primary Responsibilities:
citation-management, typst-writer, scientific-schematics).This skill doesn't work alone. It acts as the lead author, delegating tasks to:
| Role | Skill | Responsibility |
|---|---|---|
| The Librarian | citation-management | Finding papers, extracting metadata, validating citations. |
| The Editor | typst-writer | Typesetting, formatting, PDF generation. |
| The Illustrator | scientific-schematics | Generating scientific diagrams and flowcharts. |
| The Analyst | office | Creating data tables (XLSX) or supplementals. |
When orchestrating these sub-skills, ALWAYS follow the agent-orchestration principles:
Example Delegation Prompt:
"Role:
citation-management(The Librarian). Context: We are writing the Literature Review for a paper on Agentic AI. Task: Find 5 seminal papers from 2024-2025 regarding 'Multi-Agent Orchestration'. Success: Return a validated list with abstracts and a BibTeX file."
citation-management to find and validate references.scientific-schematics to generate needed figures.typst-writer to compile the final PDF.citation-management -> search_google_scholar.py.citation-management.typst-writer template matches journal requirements.Scenario: "Write a paper on AI Agents."
"I will act as the Academic Author. First, I'll structure the paper. Then, I'll ask Citation Management to find key papers from 2024. I'll have Scientific Schematics draw the architecture diagram, and finally use Typst Writer to compile the PDF."