review-others-manuscripts SKILL.md skillA
review-others-manuscripts from gxcaesar/open-research-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add gxcaesar/open-research-skills/review-others-manuscripts@git:20260909.71c1b78Pins git:20260909.71c1b78 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- gxcaesar/open-research-skills
- Path
skills/review-others-manuscripts/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260909.71c1b78, committed Sep 9, 2026
- Size
- 4,446 bytes
- Repository stars
- 63
- License
- Apache-2.0
Use when acting as an invited referee on someone else's submission, including writing a referee report, drafting reviewer comments, assessing a revision round against the authors' response letter, running an editorial prescreen for scope and policy, or judging whether a stated claim is carried by the evidence in a manuscript under review. Use for a manuscript that is not yours and is confidential; rehearsing objections against your own unsubmitted paper is a different task.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# Review Someone Else's Manuscript A referee report answers one question for the editor: is each claim carried by the evidence offered for it, and if not, what would carry it. Everything else in the report serves that question. The manuscript is confidential and belongs to its authors. That constraint shapes what you may do with it before it shapes what you write. ## Select one mode | Mode | Responsibility | Read first | |---|---|---| | `initial-review` | First-round report on a new submission | `references/claim-evidence-review.md` | | `revision-round` | Check the response letter against the actual changes | `references/revision-round.md` | | `editorial-prescreen` | Scope, fit and policy compliance before peer review | `references/prescreen.md` | | `confidentiality` | Establish what may be done with the manuscript at all | `references/confidentiality.md` | Read `confidentiality` before opening the manuscript in any tool. It constrains the other three modes rather than following them. ## Resolve the installed skill and components Resolve `SKILL_DIR` as the directory containing this `SKILL.md`. Every runtime resource …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add gxcaesar/open-research-skills/review-others-manuscripts@sha256:59658ecd4886c90aThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260909.71c1b78, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_3eoudkpc3asvktwo)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Sep 9, 2026.
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (4446 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
gxcaesar/open-research-skills · 63 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-09-23 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_3eoudkpc3asvktwo GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=gxcaesar/open-research-skills/review-others-manuscripts GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/59658ecd4886c90ac23b25621de7aaff4ddee4396d5b3d3b786327453588e621
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