paper-narrative

# paper-narrative **Outermost tier.** Judge and reshape the _story_ a paper's figures tell. Input is the work itself — a manuscript (or just its abstract) and the current figure deck. No hand-written brief required. ## When to load Paper writing or revision. You have a draft and a set of figures and you want to know: is Figure 1 a hook? Is content in the right figure? What's missing? What should die? Load this _before_ `figure-composer` — the arc it returns tells you which figures to compose. ## Loading the kernel The helpers live in `kernel.py` next to this file. It is **not** auto-injected — import it by absolute path in a Bash `python` heredoc (zero import-time side effects, no deps): ```bash python3 - <<'PY' import importlib.util K = "/ABSOLUTE/PATH/TO/paper-narrative/kernel.py" # this SKILL.md's dir + /kernel.py spec = importlib.util.spec_from_file_location("pn_kernel", K) k = importlib.util.module_from_spec(spec) spec.loader.exec_module(k) print([n for n in dir(k) if not n.startswith("_")]) PY ``` The kernel is pure prompt/schema builders (`paper_brief_schema`, `narrative_review_schema`, `derive_paper_brief_task`, `narrative_review_task`); the model work is done by you (inline) or a `Task` subagent. ## Workflow 1. **Derive the brief from the work.** Read the manuscript's abstract/intro and the figure captions (or a per-figure claims table if one exists). Build the prompt with `derive_paper_brief_task(abstract_text, figure_claims)`, then **either** pr...