write literature guide

This skill automates the creation of structured Chinese or English literature guides from academic papers, translations, or research notes. It targets technical and engineering research, extracting critical data points including methodologies, experimental conditions, and quantitative findings. By following a strict extraction hierarchy, it ensures that output remains grounded in source material while maintaining professional academic formatting.

What it does

• Structured Extraction identifies key metadata, research objectives, methodologies, and datasets from source documents.
• Bilingual Support generates guides in Chinese, English, or bilingual formats regardless of the source language.
• Technical Summarization distills complex engineering papers into concise sections covering background, methods, results, and conclusions.
• Visual Mapping extracts and lists relevant figure and table titles to provide context for technical readers.
• Document Formatting exports content to .docx files following specific layout rules and templates.

How it works

1. Inventory Files categorizes provided papers, notes, and samples to identify the primary source and reference styles.
2. Determine Language sets the target output language based on user instruction or context.
3. Extract Facts prioritizes reading of existing notes and conclusions to build a fact sheet of metrics and methods.
4. Draft Guide follows a fixed column sequence (e.g., Paper Info, Abstract, Background, Methods) for the selected language.
5. Quality Check verifies all numbers, names, and citations against the source text to prevent hallucination.

Frameworks & tools

This skill utilizes specialized logic defined in references/guide-rules.md for section templates, writing styles, and quality checklists. It supports PDF and text processing for extraction and OpenXML for .docx generation.

Why this beats prompting it yourself

Generic prompts often produce flowery summaries that miss technical nuances or fail to follow strict academic headers. This skill enforces a specific structural hierarchy and quality checklist derived from a professional sample library, ensuring consistent formatting for large literature reviews.

Use cases

• Draft professional literature guides for technical laboratory internal sharing.
• Convert raw research notes and paper PDFs into standardized bilingual reports.
• Translate and format English engineering papers into structured Chinese guides.
• Perform quality control and formatting alignment on existing draft guides.

Known limitations

Does not support audio or video sources. Requires clear source text to extract metadata accurately. Formatting for .docx is restricted to the specific rules defined in the reference file.