Paper to brief — a fashion-AI research paper on one page, with the caveats

What you get

A step-by-step workflow that turns a research paper about AI in fashion — full text, abstract or the text of a preprint page — into a one-page brief: what problem, method in plain words, data used, results with their caveats, what it means for a fashion team, questions to ask the authors, and how confident the brief is given what was read. Every number as printed, TBC where the paper is silent, no benchmark the paper does not name; it also checks briefs written by others and compares several papers on one table. Runs in Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude Code, with an experimental n8n workflow that briefs a feed of abstracts on a schedule.

Use it for

• Brief a paper for a colleague in seven fixed sections, caveats included
• Get only the method in plain words and the results table with a shared caveat vocabulary
• Check someone else's brief against the paper: rounded numbers, dropped caveats, claims the paper does not make
• Compare several abstracts from a feed on one table and draft the questions to each set of authors

What's inside

• SKILL.md — the workflow: eight steps, output format, caveat vocabulary, checks, when to ask
• PROMPTS.md — Start · Step by step · Update · Check · Compare · Handover
• templates/brief.md — the fillable one-page brief, sections 1–7
• examples/brief-example.md — the template filled once for a clearly fictional paper
• platforms/n8n/paper-to-brief.workflow.json — experimental n8n workflow: feed → brief prompt → sheet
• platforms/chatgpt-instructions.md — Custom GPT / Project instructions
• platforms/gemini-gem.md — Gem instructions
• platforms/claude-code/.claude/skills/paper-to-brief/SKILL.md — Claude Code drop-in

Quick start

1. Unzip and open README.md.
2. Claude: Settings → Capabilities → Skills → upload SKILL.md. ChatGPT: paste platforms/chatgpt-instructions.md into a Project. Gemini: paste platforms/gemini-gem.md into a Gem. Claude Code: copy platforms/claude-code/.claude/ into your project. n8n (experimental): import platforms/n8n/paper-to-brief.workflow.json.
3. Paste the Start prompt from PROMPTS.md with the paper text or abstract, and say which one it is.

Preview — one prompt from the kit

From this paper ({{input_type}}): {{paper}}

Two things only. (a) Method in plain words: what goes in, what comes out, what the model or procedure does in between, 4–6 sentences, no undefined acronyms, one analogy at most and only if it does not distort. (b) Results with caveats: one row per headline claim — claim in the paper's words · metric and number as printed · compared to · caveat. Use this caveat vocabulary where it applies: same-source data, self-reported, no code, small human eval (n as printed), single garment type, synthetic bodies only, no baseline, qualitative only. Then quote the limitations the authors state themselves, or write "none stated".