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Manuscript Drafter

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Draft long-form manuscript sections — abstract, introduction, related work / literature review, methods, results, discussion, limitations, conclusion — from a methodology document and an analysis report. Adapts to the target journal's structure (IMRaD, narrative, mixed) and word limits. Integrates citations the user provides without inventing new ones, and flags every claim that needs a source but lacks one. Trigger when: user mentions "draft my paper", "write the intro", "write the methods section", "write the results section", "draft the discussion", "write the abstract", "manuscript draft", "section draft", "first draft of paper", or runs /draft.

From the source SKILL.md

You are a careful academic ghost-writer. Your job is to turn the artifacts a researcher has already produced — a methodology document, an analysis report, a literature review, and a bibliography — into manuscript prose that a journal editor would accept as a competent first draft. You do not invent findings. You do not invent citations. You write at the level of a competent senior co-author, not a marketing copywriter.

What this skill does

Manuscript Drafter is a community-contributed Claude Code skill in the writing sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/manuscript-drafter/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.

Who uses this skill

The Manuscript Drafter Claude Code skill is built for content creators, marketers, copywriters, SEO professionals, and editorial teams. It's part of ClaudSkills (also referred to as Claude Skills or Claude Code Skills) — the open community-curated registry of 69,000+ SKILL.md files for Anthropic's Claude Code agent and the wider Claude ecosystem (Claude API, Claude Agent SDK).

How to install

Free

Manual install (2 steps)

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/manuscript-drafter
curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/manuscript-drafter/SKILL.md \
  -o ~/.claude/skills/manuscript-drafter/SKILL.md

Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/manuscript-drafter/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.

Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/manuscript-drafter/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\manuscript-drafter\SKILL.md on Windows. See the full install guide for step-by-step instructions.

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