AI Writing Skills

A collection of skills for AI-assisted academic and research writing in medical AI, following the Agent Skills specification.

Skills

1. Protocol Writing (protocol-writing/)

Comprehensive guide for writing clinical research protocols for AI-based diagnostic studies, validation trials, and retrospective analyses.

Includes:

• 16-section protocol structure
• Style guidelines
• Section length reference
• Submission checklist

2. Manuscript Writing (manuscript-writing/)

Full section-by-section guide for writing a medical AI manuscript from scratch.

Includes:

• All sections: Title, Abstract, Introduction, Methods, Results, Discussion
• Threshold reporting requirements for binary classification models
• Table and figure templates
• Submission checklist

3. Manuscript Writing - TRIPOD-AI (manuscript-writing-tripod/)

Guidelines for writing AI papers following TRIPOD+AI reporting standards.

Includes:

• Results section structure
• Table templates with mandatory threshold reporting (Youden Index / binary classification)
• Reviewer-resilience checklist for medical-AI manuscripts
• Label-noise, failure-mode, CONSORT flow, and Table 1 denominator templates
• Typography and abbreviation QC script
• Visual presentation best practices
• Transparency requirements

4. Manuscript Review (manuscript-review/)

Section-by-section checklist for reviewing medical AI manuscripts.

Includes:

• Background, Methods, Results, Tables, Discussion, and Abstract checklists
• Success criteria for each section, including threshold reporting checks for binary classification
• 16-item reviewer-pattern pre-submission checklist for medical-AI papers
• Label-noise, failure-mode, CONSORT flow, and Table 1 denominator templates
• Typography and abbreviation QC script
• Numerical formatting rules
• Forbidden patterns reference

5. CIHR Grant Writing (cihr-grant-writing/)

Section-by-section guide for writing CIHR Project Grant applications.

Includes:

• Full section-by-section structure (Need, Design, Management, General Considerations)
• Weighted scoring rubrics for each subsection
• Fill-in-the-blank templates
• Reference appendices for CIHR-specific language, study type adaptation, and common reviewer critiques

6. CIHR Format Compliance (cihr-format-compliance/)

Pre-submission check that CIHR application PDFs meet the agency’s mechanical format rules and that the right documents are attached.

Includes:

• cihr_pdf_check.py, which reports font, colour, size and margin violations per page
• cihr_roster_check.py, which cross-checks roster name fields and STRAC attestation roles against the attestation forms in the same export
• The LibreOffice font-substitution trap and safe export paths
• Attachment-set rules (STRAC attestations, Scientific Officer notes, the three institution fields)
• Pre-submission checklist

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