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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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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 delivers a rigorous, well-sequenced review methodology with concrete templates, rating scales, and a closing validation checklist — genuinely actionable guidance for an instruction-only skill. Its weaknesses are token efficiency (duplicated capability lists and generic review-principle coaching) and the absence of progressive disclosure, with all material inlined in one long file rather than split across reference files.

Suggestions

Trim the 'Core Capabilities' section (it restates the description and Overview) and cut 'Review Principles'/'Common Pitfalls' to their distinctive items only, dropping coaching about peer-review conduct Claude already knows.

Move the full 'Review Output Template' into a reference file (e.g. references/review-template.md) and keep a short annotated outline in SKILL.md, shortening the body by ~100 lines.

Add one worked mini-example (a filled excerpt of a methodology-assessment entry) so the guidance reaches fully copy-paste-ready coverage of common cases.

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Conciseness

Mostly efficient — tables, checklists, and templates are dense with signal — but the 'Core Capabilities' section duplicates the description/Overview, and 'Review Principles' and 'Common Pitfalls' teach peer-review judgment Claude already possesses, so it could be tightened.

3 / 5

Actionability

Concrete and mostly executable for an instruction-only skill: a full copy-paste-ready markdown review template, ready-to-use literature search query block, explicit 1-5 rating criteria tables, and a good/bad example pair. Falls short of anchor 5 only in lacking a worked example of a filled review.

4 / 5

Workflow Clarity

Clear three-phase sequence (Comprehension → Critical Analysis → Synthesis) with numbered sub-steps, and an explicit validation checkpoint: the 'Quality Checklist' of 10 verify-items to run before finalizing the review. This is a non-destructive analysis task, so no feedback-loop cap applies.

5 / 5

Progressive Disclosure

Well-organized section structure, but it is a ~290-line monolith with zero reference files: the 90-line Review Output Template and the type-adaptation tables are candidates to move into separate reference files to keep SKILL.md as an overview.

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: it clearly and explicitly states both what the skill does and when to use it, uses third-person voice, and packs in natural trigger phrases including synonyms and sources. The only shortcoming is that the stated capabilities are analysis categories rather than fully concrete operations, giving slight genericity.

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Specificity

Names the domain and lists several concrete action areas ('methodology assessment, contribution evaluation, literature positioning, and constructive feedback generation'), though these are analysis categories rather than fully concrete operations, so it falls just below the anchor-5 comprehensive level.

4 / 5

Completeness

Explicitly answers both what ('Supports comprehensive structured reviews covering methodology assessment...') and when ('Use this skill when the user requests to review, analyze, critique, or summarize...' plus a second 'Trigger on queries involving...' clause with concrete example phrases).

5 / 5

Trigger Term Quality

Comprehensive natural trigger coverage: 'review this paper', 'analyze this research', 'summarize this study', 'write a peer review', plus synonyms (papers, research articles, preprints, publications), file formats (PDFs), and sources (arXiv, DOI, paper URLs).

5 / 5

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

Clear academic-paper niche with distinct triggers (arXiv, peer review, preprints), but 'summarize this study' has minor overlap risk with generic summarization or research skills.

4 / 5

Total

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20

Passed

Validation

100%

Checks the skill against the spec for correct structure and formatting. All validation checks must pass before discovery and implementation can be scored.

Validation — 16 / 16 Passed

Validation for skill structure

No warnings or errors.

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