A Claude Code skill for revising academic manuscripts (LaTeX / ML / robotics papers, e.g. for TMLR, NeurIPS, CoRL, ICRA) to a rigorous, publication-grade standard.

It encodes a reusable editing workflow:

• A review persona — a harsh-supervisor + PhD-student editing team.
• A concrete style rulebook — defensible claims, plain prose, structure and reference discipline, section-specific rules for abstract / intro / related work / contributions.
• A clear-notes discipline — inventory every inline marker (\note{...}, % TODO, # NOTE), clear them one at a time in file order, and strip the markers.
• A verify step — compile the document and confirm zero errors, zero undefined references, and the expected page count before reporting success.

npx skills add johnMinelli/phd-level-writing

The skill triggers automatically when you ask Claude to rewrite or restructure a paper section, clear inline supervisor/reviewer notes in the source, tighten prose, or apply writing-style rules. You can also invoke it explicitly:

/phd-level-writing

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