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academic-paper-review

Use this skill when the user requests to review, analyze, critique, or summarize academic papers, research articles, preprints, or scientific publications. Supports comprehensive structured reviews covering methodology assessment, contribution evaluation, literature positioning, and constructive feedback generation. Trigger on queries involving paper URLs, uploaded PDFs, arXiv links, or requests like "review this paper", "analyze this research", "summarize this study", or "write a peer review".

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SKILL.md
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Quality

Content

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Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.

The body is a well-structured, highly actionable review methodology with a complete output template, rating tables, and a final quality checklist. Its main weaknesses are moderate verbosity (redundant 'Core Capabilities' and obvious reviewer-conduct sections) and a monolithic single-file structure with no progressive disclosure for a skill of this length.

Suggestions

Remove or merge 'Core Capabilities' (it duplicates the Overview and description) and trim 'Review Principles'/'Ethical Review Practices' to the non-obvious points only, to reduce token overhead.

Move the full 'Review Output Template' (and optionally the detailed methodology/contribution tables) into a reference file (e.g. references/review-template.md) and link to it from SKILL.md, so the main file stays a lean overview.

Add one short worked example (a 1-2 paragraph sample review excerpt) to make the template's expected output unambiguous.

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Conciseness

The bulk is actionable (templates, rating tables, checklists), but 'Core Capabilities' duplicates the Overview/description, and 'Review Principles' and 'Ethical Review Practices' restate obvious reviewer conduct Claude already knows, fitting 'mostly efficient but includes some unnecessary explanation or could be tightened'.

3 / 5

Actionability

Provides a full copy-paste review output template, a methodology rating table with 1-5 scales, concrete literature-search query examples, and an adaptation-by-paper-type table; as an instruction-only skill this is highly actionable (code absence not penalized), with a minor gap of no worked completed-review example, fitting anchor 4.

4 / 5

Workflow Clarity

Clear Phase 1->2->3 sequence with numbered steps (1.1-3.1) and a final 'Quality Checklist' verification gate; not a destructive/batch operation so the cap-at-3 rule does not apply, but validation is a final gate rather than interleaved feedback loops, fitting anchor 4.

4 / 5

Progressive Disclosure

No bundle files exist and the 285-line monolith exceeds the 50-line simple-skill exception; headers are well-organized, but the ~90-line output template and detailed methodology tables are inlined rather than split into one-level-deep reference files, fitting 'content that should be separate is inline'.

3 / 5

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Description

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Based on the skill's description, can an agent find and select it at the right time? Clear, specific descriptions lead to better discovery.

The description is strong and well-constructed: it explicitly states what the skill does and when to trigger it, with a rich set of natural trigger terms and synonyms. The only weaknesses are a second-person 'Use this skill when...' voice (vs. the preferred third-person imperative) and minor overlap risk on the 'summarize' triggers.

Suggestions

Reword the opening in third-person imperative ('Use when the user requests to review, analyze, critique, or summarize academic papers...') to match the rubric's preferred voice and avoid the specificity penalty.

Tighten the 'summarize' trigger to an academic context (e.g. 'summarize a research paper') to reduce overlap risk with general summarization skills.

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Specificity

Lists multiple concrete actions ('review, analyze, critique, or summarize', 'methodology assessment, contribution evaluation, literature positioning, and constructive feedback generation'), matching the comprehensive anchor 5, but reduced by 1 because the opening 'Use this skill when...' uses second-person voice rather than the third-person 'Use when...' pattern in the anchor examples.

4 / 5

Completeness

Explicitly answers both 'what' ('Supports comprehensive structured reviews covering methodology assessment...') and 'when' with concrete trigger phrases ('Use this skill when the user requests...', 'Trigger on queries involving...'), matching anchor 5.

5 / 5

Trigger Term Quality

Comprehensive natural trigger terms including synonyms ('academic papers, research articles, preprints, scientific publications'), file/source cues ('arXiv links', 'PDFs', 'paper URLs'), and concrete user phrases ('review this paper', 'summarize this study', 'write a peer review'), matching the anchor 5 example's breadth.

5 / 5

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

Carves a clear academic-review niche with distinct triggers (arXiv links, peer review), but 'summarize this study' / 'summarize a research paper' risk minor overlap with general summarization or deep-research skills, fitting 'mostly distinct; minor overlap risk'.

4 / 5

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Validation

100%

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Validation16 / 16 Passed

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