draft-slop-fixer

What problem does it solve?

This Skill automates the mechanical cleanup of early-stage, stream-of-consciousness academic drafts by resolving placeholder markers, filling citation gaps where possible, rewording copy-paste note dumps to match the author's voice, and delegating unresolved items to downstream agents or the user.

Core Features & Use Cases

• Identify and classify issues: Finds TODOs, citation placeholders, uncited claims, verbatim note insertions, and structural scaffolding within a draft.
• Source and patch: Searches project note files and the bibliography for matching content, inserts proper citation keys when available, and marks items that require manual resolution.
• Non-destructive edits & reporting: Creates timestamped backups, writes cleaned drafts annotated with <!-- SLOP-FIX --> comments, and emits a delegation report listing outstanding tasks for other agents or the user.
• Use case: An author drops a rough Quarto markdown chapter containing (CITE) and (need more info) markers and receives a cleaned file with matched bib keys, reworded note fragments, and a list of unresolved references.

Quick Start

Run the draft-slop-fixer on your draft file path to produce a cleaned draft, a backup copy, and a delegation report.