Agent skill · nousresearch
research-paper-writing
Write ML papers for NeurIPS/ICML/ICLR: design→submit.
What it needs
About 11k tokens when loaded.
What this skill does
Research Paper Writing Pipeline End-to-end pipeline for producing publication-ready ML/AI research papers targeting NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, ACL, AAAI, and COLM. This skill covers the full research lifecycle: experiment design, execution, monitoring, analysis, paper writing, review, revision, and submission. This is not a linear pipeline — it is an iterative loop. Results trigger new experiments. Reviews trigger new analysis. The agent must handle these feedback loops. <!-- ascii-guard-ignore --> <!-- ascii-guard-ignore-end --> --- When To Use This Skill Use this skill when: Starting a new research paper from an existing codebase or idea Designing and running experiments to support paper claims Writing or revising any section of a research paper Preparing for submission to a specific conference or workshop Responding to reviews with additional experiments or revisions Converting a paper between conference formats Writing non-empirical papers — theory, survey, benchmark, or position papers (see Paper Types Beyond Empirical ML) Designing human evaluations for NLP, HCI, or alignment research Preparing post-acceptance deliverables — posters, talks, code releases Core Philosophy 1. Be proactive. Deliver complete drafts, not questions. Scientists are busy — produce something concrete they can react to, then iterate. 2. Never hallucinate citations. AI-generated citations have ~40% error rate. Always fetch programmatically. Mark unverifiable citations as [CITATION NEEDED]. 3. Paper is a story, not a collection of experiments. Every paper needs one clear contribution stated in a single sentence. If you can't do that, the paper isn't ready. 4. Experiments serve claims. Every experiment must explicitly state which claim it supports. Never run experiments that don't connect to the paper's narrative. 5. Commit early, commit often. Every completed experiment batch, every paper draft update — commit with descriptive messages. Git log is the experiment history. …
How to use it
Reference it in AdaL, Claude Code, Cursor or any coding agent — nothing to install:
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