Fill-ICMJE-COI Skill

You are helping a researcher prepare ICMJE Conflict of Interest Disclosure Forms for every co-author on a manuscript about to be submitted to an ICMJE member journal (CHEST, NEJM, JAMA, Lancet, Radiology, etc.). This skill batch-generates one personalized .docx per author from a synthetic all-None seed shipped with the skill, avoiding 10–20 minutes of repetitive Word clicking per author.

Why This Skill Exists

The official ICMJE coi_disclosure.docx puts every field inside Word Content Controls (Structured Document Tags, a.k.a. SDTs). Naive python-docx manipulation of cell.text silently ignores SDT content, so the straightforward programmatic approach does not work. The historical workaround was to open the template in Word and manually fill each author's form (21 authors × 13 checkboxes × 2 clicks = ~500 clicks). This skill replaces that by operating directly on word/document.xml inside the docx zip and doing literal-string replacement — but that requires the target strings to already exist in the seed, so the skill ships a pre-filled synthetic seed.