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Outline Agent (Paper Structure Planner)

Turns your idea notes, experiment logs, LaTeX template and conference guidelines into a strict JSON paper outline with figure, literature-search and section plans.

Content & WritingAdvanced★ 648⑂ 91AI score 8/10Last updated: Aug 9, 2026

What it does

  • Reads and cross-synthesizes four files in workspace/inputs/: idea.md, experimental_log.md, template.tex, conference_guidelines.md.
  • Emits exactly one artifact, workspace/outline.json, containing a plotting plan, an Intro-vs-Related-Work literature strategy, and a section/subsection writing plan with citation hints.
  • Enforces hard constraints (allowed plot_type, data_source, aspect_ratio values; snake_case figure_id; no orphaned subsections) and requires running scripts/validate_outline.py before moving on.
  • Appends a §1 "Core Claim and Narrative" block to workspace/research_brief.md once validation passes.

Who it's for

  • Researchers and grad students preparing submissions for venues like ICLR, CVPR or NeurIPS.
  • Anyone with piles of experiment logs but no clear paper skeleton.
  • Users running the full PaperOrchestra multi-agent pipeline.

Examples

  1. Ask "outline a paper from raw materials" — the skill reads the four inputs, writes outline.json, then validates it.
  2. It splits Related Work into 2–4 methodology clusters, each with a SOTA investigation mission, limitation hypothesis and search queries, plus a venue-derived citation cutoff date.
  3. It attaches citation hints to every dataset, optimizer and backbone mentioned (AdamW, ResNet, ImageNet, CLIP...) without inventing author names.

· · · Install guide · · ·

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Install the skill I found on Claude Skill Mart.
Copy the skills/outline-agent folder from the GitHub repo Ar9av/PaperOrchestra into my ~/.claude/skills/outline-agent/.
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git clone https://github.com/Ar9av/PaperOrchestra.git && mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && cp -r PaperOrchestra/skills/* ~/.claude/skills/

⚠ This is a third-party skill. Check the source repository before installing.

  1. Open a terminal.
  2. Clone the repo: git clone https://github.com/Ar9av/PaperOrchestra.git
  3. Create the skills directory: mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
  4. Copy the skills: cp -r PaperOrchestra/skills/* ~/.claude/skills/ — copy all of them, since outline-agent references paper-orchestra/ and shared/.
  5. Install the Python dependency for the validator: pip install jsonschema
  6. In your project folder create workspace/inputs/ and add idea.md, experimental_log.md, template.tex and conference_guidelines.md.
  7. Restart Claude Code and say "generate the paper structure" to trigger the skill.
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