alterlab-writing-tools

Plugin alterlab-writing-tools from marketplace alterlab-academic-skills in AlterLab-IEU/AlterLab-Academic-Skills. Commands read from the repo's manifest — 6 days ago.

Skills (14)

• alterlab-academic-career

  Prepares academic career documents and professional-development materials for faculty and researchers. Use when drafting academic CVs, research statements, teaching philosophies, diversity statements, faculty-position cover letters, tenure dossiers, promotion narratives, academic portfolios, or ment

• alterlab-ai-use-disclosure

  Helps faculty and researchers disclose generative-AI use and comply with the rules for manuscripts, grant proposals, peer review, theses and figures. Walks a venue → policy → placement decision tree over policies verified on 2026-09-23 (ICMJE, Springer Nature/Nature, Elsevier, Wiley, Taylor & Franci

• alterlab-citation-mgmt

  Manages citations for academic research — searches Google Scholar and PubMed for papers, extracts complete metadata from DOIs, PMIDs, and arXiv IDs (CrossRef, doi.org content negotiation, NCBI E-utilities, arXiv API), validates BibTeX entries for required fields, format, and duplicates, and generate

• alterlab-hypothesis-gen

  Formulates structured, testable hypotheses from experimental observations using a scientific-method framework — derives predictions, proposes mechanisms, and designs experiments to test them, then renders a LaTeX report. Use when turning observations or data into falsifiable, mechanistic hypotheses,

• alterlab-latex-posters

  Creates professional research posters in LaTeX using beamerposter, tikzposter, or baposter — handles layout design, color schemes, multi-column formats, figure integration, and poster-specific visual-communication best practices. Use when building a conference or academic poster in LaTeX (the defaul

• alterlab-literature-review

  Conducts comprehensive, systematic literature reviews across multiple academic databases (PubMed, arXiv, bioRxiv, Semantic Scholar), with PRISMA 2020 flow tracking, study screening (title/abstract and full-text), evidence-table extraction, and risk-of-bias assessment (RoB 2, ROBINS-I, AMSTAR 2), pro

• alterlab-paper-2-web

  Converts a finished academic paper (PDF or LaTeX source) into promotional and presentation formats with no API key — Claude reads the paper and builds an interactive project website (static HTML/CSS for GitHub Pages; Paper2Web), a print-ready conference poster (LaTeX with QR code; Paper2Poster), a n

• alterlab-peer-review

  Writes structured, checklist-based single-reviewer reports for manuscripts and grant proposals — assesses methodology, statistical validity, reporting-standards compliance (CONSORT 2025, SPIRIT 2025, STROBE, PRISMA 2020, ARRIVE 2.0), reproducibility, and ethics, and gives constructive, prioritized f

• alterlab-pptx-posters

  Creates research posters in HTML/CSS with responsive layouts and easy visual integration, exportable to PDF or PPTX. Use ONLY when the user explicitly requests a PowerPoint/PPTX/PPT poster, an HTML/web-based poster, or a poster they will edit in PowerPoint, or when LaTeX is unavailable. For a standa

• alterlab-research-grants

  Writes competitive research grant proposals for NSF, NIH, DOE, DARPA, and Taiwan NSTC — applies agency-specific formatting and current review criteria (NIH Simplified Review Framework, NSF Intellectual Merit and Broader Impacts under PAPPG 24-1), prepares budgets and justifications, drafts Specific

• alterlab-scholar-eval

  Evaluates scholarly work with a ScholarEval-inspired eight-dimension rubric, producing structured assessment across research-quality dimensions (problem formulation, literature, methodology, data, analysis, results, writing, and citations) with quantitative 1-5 rubric scores, weighted aggregates, an

• alterlab-scientific-slides

  Builds slide decks for research talks with no API key — editable PowerPoint generated from a deck plan (python-pptx) or LaTeX Beamer, slide visuals drawn as code and rendered locally, plus slide structure, design templates, timing guidance, and visual validation of every page. Optional AI-generated

• alterlab-scientific-writing

  Writes scientific manuscripts in full flowing paragraphs (never bullet points) via a two-stage process — section outlines with key points using alterlab-research-lookup, then conversion to prose — applying IMRAD structure, citations (APA/AMA/Vancouver), figures/tables, and current reporting guidelin

• alterlab-venue-templates

  Provides LaTeX templates, formatting requirements, and submission guidelines for major scientific venues (Nature, Science, PLOS, IEEE, ACM, Cell Press), conferences (NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, CVPR, CHI), research posters, and grant proposals (NSF, NIH, DOE, DARPA). Also covers venue-specific writing styl

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