Audit a research paper against 8 quality dimensions (claim-evidence alignment, statistical rigor, baseline completeness, generalizability, mechanistic validation, error analysis, presentation accuracy, reproducibility). Can be invoked at any pipeline stage to catch issues early.
This skill performs a comprehensive quality audit of a research paper at any stage of the pipeline. It can check partial artifacts (experiment plans, results, drafts) or complete manuscripts.
/design-experiments — check metric coverage, baseline completeness, statistical plan/analyze-results — check statistical rigor, contradiction detection, error analysis/produce-manuscript — full quality review before submissionCheck at design stage:
Check at results stage:
Check at manuscript stage:
Minimum requirements:
Red flags:
Required baselines:
Missing baseline detection:
Required stratifications:
Generate a quality report with:
This skill is automatically invoked by:
/verify-paper command (pipeline step 34 in v3; replaces /quality-review)/validate-setup when checking experiment plan qualityThe structured verifier writes manuscript/paper-quality-report.md (see commands/verify-paper.md). Legacy /quality-review used manuscript/quality-review.md; prefer /verify-paper before /compile-manuscript.