# Academic Writing Quality Assessor

> Audit and refine academic manuscripts for structure, terminology consistency, LaTeX hygiene, and high-signal grammar fixes. Use this skill for theses, papers, proposals, and technical reports when the task is manuscript writing rather than experiment execution.

- **Type:** Skill
- **Install:** `agentstack add skill-mr-fang-vlsi-edagent-academic-writing-quality-assessor`
- **Verified:** Yes — security-reviewed for prompt injection and unsafe behavior
- **Seller:** [Mr-Fang-VLSI](https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/mr-fang-vlsi)
- **Installs:** 0
- **Category:** [AI & ML](https://agentstack.voostack.com/c/ai-and-ml)
- **Latest version:** 0.1.0
- **License:** MIT
- **Upstream author:** [Mr-Fang-VLSI](https://github.com/Mr-Fang-VLSI)
- **Source:** https://github.com/Mr-Fang-VLSI/EDAgent/tree/main/skills/academic-writing-quality-assessor

## Install

```sh
agentstack add skill-mr-fang-vlsi-edagent-academic-writing-quality-assessor
```

Requires the [AgentStack CLI](https://agentstack.voostack.com/docs/cli). Works with Claude Code, Cursor, and any MCP-compatible agent.

## About

# Academic Writing Quality Assessor

## When to use

Use this skill when the user asks to:
1. check thesis/paper/proposal formatting and manuscript consistency,
2. run grammar review with minimal false positives,
3. unify terminology, equation/citation style, or figure/table conventions,
4. clean LaTeX hygiene issues such as case-mismatched graphics paths, stale chapters, or front-matter drift.

Do not use this skill for slide drafting/refinement; use `academic-presentation-crafter` or `academic-slide-refiner` instead.

## Scope Boundary

This skill owns manuscript quality assurance and writing-side consistency.
It does not own domain experiment execution, paper search, or physical-design conclusions.

## Knowledge And Tool Interaction

1. Treat the active manuscript source tree as the primary evidence source.
2. Use `scripts/common/latex_writing_audit.py` before large cleanup or when active-file boundaries are unclear.
3. When the manuscript task also requires shared KB/tool retrieval, delegate lookup to `eda-context-accessor`.
4. Prefer minimal-intrusion edits: fix correctness and consistency first, then style.
5. Archive or remove stale chapters/assets only after confirming they are outside the active include/input closure.

## Workflow

1. Build or inspect the current LaTeX project state.
2. Determine the active chapter/input/bibliography/graphics closure.
3. Review in this order:
   - build blockers and references,
   - front matter correctness,
   - chapter naming/structure consistency,
   - terminology consistency,
   - must-fix grammar errors,
   - low-risk style cleanup.
4. Only after active assets are known, clean stale chapters or duplicate figures.

## Operational References

1. Load `references/writing-qa-playbook.md` for the full manuscript QA checklist and review order.
2. Load `references/thesis-writing-onboarding.md` when the task is dissertation/thesis assembly from proposal + papers.
3. Load `references/scripts/scripts__common__latex_writing_audit.py` when you need exact behavior of the audit script or want to mirror/patch it.

## Source & license

This open-source skill is cataloged on AgentStack and links to its original source — we do not rehost the code.

- **Author:** [Mr-Fang-VLSI](https://github.com/Mr-Fang-VLSI)
- **Source:** [Mr-Fang-VLSI/EDAgent](https://github.com/Mr-Fang-VLSI/EDAgent)
- **License:** MIT

Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above.

## Pricing

- **Free** — Free

## Security capabilities

Automated source analysis of v0.1.0 — what this tool can access:

- **Network access:** no
- **Filesystem access:** no
- **Shell / process execution:** no
- **Environment & secrets:** no
- **Dynamic code execution:** no

*"Yes" means the capability is present in the source — more access means more to trust, not that it is unsafe.*


## Versions

- **0.1.0** — security scan: passed — Imported from the upstream source.

## Links

- Listing page: https://agentstack.voostack.com/l/skill-mr-fang-vlsi-edagent-academic-writing-quality-assessor
- Seller: https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/mr-fang-vlsi
- Browse the marketplace: https://agentstack.voostack.com/browse

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