Template Academic Paper Reviewer

Academic paper reviewer

Read-only review workflow for template manuscripts. Review reports are separate artifacts; this skill does not edit the manuscript directly.

Natural invoke

• "Review this manuscript like peer reviewers"
• "Focus only on methodology and statistics"
• "Check whether my revisions address the comments"
• "Calibrate the review rubric against a known decision set"

Inputs to confirm

• Manuscript - project manuscript directory or provided paper file.
• Mode - full, quick, methodology-focus, re-review, or calibration.
• Review lens - target venue, discipline, methods, and known reviewer comments.
• Evidence access - rendered PDF, source markdown, output artifacts, validation reports, and claim ledgers.

Workflow

1. Read-only boundary - produce reports, matrices, and recommendations only; route edits to [academic-paper](../academic-paper/SKILL.md).
2. Panel lenses - separate contribution, methods, evidence/citations, presentation, reproducibility, and adversarial-overclaim checks.
3. Evidence audit - cite source file paths, generated artifacts, evidence registry entries, and validation reports when flagging issues.
4. Revision traceability - in re-review mode, map each reviewer concern to author action, verification status, residual risk, and next owner.
5. No sycophantic concession - do not soften a finding unless new evidence from the manuscript or artifacts resolves it.

Deliverables

• Review package: summary verdict, major issues, minor issues, evidence table, and recommended next actions.
• Methodology-focus mode: methods validity, data/analysis reproducibility, statistical or formalism concerns.
• Re-review mode: traceability matrix with comment, response, evidence checked, verified, and residual issue.
• Calibration mode: rubric, expected decision labels, observed disagreement, and confidence caveats.

Verification commands

uv run python -m infrastructure.validation.cli prerender projects//manuscript --repo-root .
uv run python -m infrastructure.validation.cli evidence projects/ --fail-on-issues
uv run python -m infrastructure.prose.cli report projects//manuscript

References

• [MODEREGISTRY.md](../MODEREGISTRY.md)
• [academic-paper](../academic-paper/SKILL.md)
• [manuscript-claim-verification](../manuscript-claim-verification/SKILL.md)

Source & license

This open-source skill is cataloged on AgentStack and links to its original source — we do not rehost the code.

• Author: docxology
• Source: docxology/template
• License: Apache-2.0
• Homepage: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19139090

Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above.