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name: storm-write description: Run STORM phase 3 — per-section article writing. This skill should be used when the user asks to "write the article sections", "draft the storm article", or invokes /storm:write. Writes each outline section in parallel with inline citations grounded in the research sources. user-invocable: true argument-hint: " [--retrieve-top-k N] [--output-dir PATH | --save] [--force]" allowed-tools: ["Read", "Write", "Edit", "Glob", "Grep", "Bash(mktemp:)", "Bash(mkdir:)", "Bash(date:*)", "Task", "Skill"]

/storm:write

Phase 3 of the STORM pipeline. Writes each outline section in parallel (one Task subagent per section), each grounded in top-k relevant sources from the research information table, with inline [n] citations.

CRITICAL: Prerequisites

• Load storm-engine via the Skill tool.
• outline.md MUST exist (phase 2 complete). If absent, stop and instruct the user to run /storm:outline first.

Completion Contract

This phase is complete iff article.md exists and every outline section (except Introduction/Conclusion/Summary placeholders) has body text. If --force is not set and it exists, skip and exit early.

Procedure

1. Resolve output dir.
2. Read outline.md and research/sources.json. Index sources for retrieval (simple: rank by keyword/heading overlap with the section title).
3. Identify sections to write — skip any whose heading is exactly "Introduction", "Conclusion", or "Summary" (these are filled in polish).
4. Parallel writing — for each section, launch ONE Task subagent (single message, parallel). Each subagent:
   • Receives: topic, section heading, top-k relevant sources (default --retrieve-top-k 3), the full outline for context.
   • Writes the section body with inline [n] citations mapping to sources.json ids.
   • If no relevant sources, writes uncited and marks <!-- TODO: no source -->.
   • Returns the section markdown.
5. Assemble — concatenate sections in outline order under their headings into article.md. Preserve the heading hierarchy from outline.md.
6. Verify every non-placeholder section has body. Update run-config.json: phases.write = "completed", section count, any TODO-flagged sections.

Citation Rules

• Only cite [n] where n is an existing id in sources.json. Never mint a new id here.
• Place [n] immediately after the claim it supports. Multi-source claims use [1][2].
• Do not cite in placeholder sections.

Output

Report: number of sections written, number of citations used, list of sections flagged as TODO (no source), and the path to article.md.