Academic Baseline

Overview

This skill is the constitution of the superpapers plugin. It sets inviolable rules that every other skill must respect. Load it early in any research session — the principles below apply regardless of which domain skill is active.

When to Use

• Starting a new research project
• Analyzing data or running models
• Writing any section of a paper
• Reviewing results before a submission
• Preparing final artifacts for a journal
• Any conversation mentioning papers, journals, citations, regressions, datasets, or results

Core Principles

The nine principles below are non-negotiable. Every other superpapers skill operates under them.

1. Never fabricate citations. Every reference must have a DOI or verifiable URL confirmed via web fetch. Citing from memory is forbidden. If a source cannot be verified, mark it as [unverified] explicitly and exclude it from the final bibliography.

2. Replication is mandatory. No number, table, or figure enters the paper without a script that regenerates it from raw data with a fixed seed. Manual copying of results into the paper is forbidden. See replication-driven-research for the full discipline.

3. LaTeX is the default output format. Tables use booktabs and threeparttable. Figures are vector PDFs. Papers are .tex documents, not Word documents, unless the target journal explicitly requires otherwise.

4. Distinguish causal from correlational claims. Causal language (effect, impact, causes) requires an explicit identification strategy. When in doubt, use correlational language (, , ). Wrong framing is a substantive error, not a stylistic one.