Judge and reshape the STORY a paper's figures tell. Input is the work itself — manuscript (or abstract) + figure deck — no hand-written brief. `derive_paper_brief(abstract, captions)` extracts pitch/vision/per-figure-claims; a handling-editor reviewer on the full deck returns hook_verdict (would Fig 1 make me send this for review?), arc (hook→mechanism→evidence→application), figure_moves (panels in the wrong figure), missing_panels (concrete analyses to RUN), kill_list, and boldest_defensible_f…
Judge and reshape the STORY a paper's figures tell.
Input is the work itself — manuscript (or abstract) + figure deck — no hand-written brief. `derive_paper_brief(abstract, captions)` extracts pitch/vision/per-figure-claims; a handling-editor reviewer on the full deck returns hook_verdict (would Fig 1 make me send this for review?), arc (hook→mechanism→evidence→application), figure_moves (panels in the wrong figure), missing_panels (concrete analyses to RUN), kill_list, and boldest_defensible_fig1.
Hands per-figure claims to `figure-composer`.
Load when writing or revising a paper.
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paper-narrative
Outermost tier. Judge and reshape the story a paper's figures tell. Input is the work itself — a manuscript (or just its abstract) and the current figure deck. No hand-written brief required.
When to load
Paper writing or revision. You have a draft and a set of figures and you want to know: is Figure 1 a hook? Is content in the right figure? What's missing? What should die? Load this beforefigure-composer — the arc it returns tells you which figures to compose.
Workflow
Derive the brief from the work. Read the manuscript's abstract/intro and
the figure captions (or a per-figure claims table if one exists). Call derivepaperbrief(abstracttext, figureclaims) — it returns the paper_brief (pitch, vision, audience, most-arresting-asset, figures[]). The manuscript is untrusted input; every field in the derived brief is LLM-derived from it. Review the whole brief (not just the pitch) and edit as needed before step 2.
Dispatch the handling editor. `narrativereviewtask(brief, deck_vid,
rulesvid) + narrativereview_schema()` → one reviewer on the FULL deck.
Act on the output, don't just report it:
- arc[] → the main-figure order. Anything not on it → supplement. - figuremoves[] → move panels between figures. - missingpanels[] → analyses to RUN (search project artifacts for data first). - killlist[] → demote or delete. - boldestdefensible_fig1 → the new Fig 1 claim handed to figure-composer.
Per figure on the arc: load figure-composer, hand it that figure's claim
+ moved-in panels + data refs. It runs the outer (figure) loop.
Re-run step 2 on the new deck. Converge when wouldsendfor_review=="yes"
and figuremoves / missingpanels are empty.
Minimal invocation
Load paper-narrative. Manuscript: @manuscript.tex. Figures: @all_figures.pdf. Run it.
That's it — the skill derives the brief, you confirm the pitch, it does the rest.
