journal-review SKILL.md skillA

journal-review from scdenney/open-science-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add scdenney/open-science-skills/journal-review@git:20261028.910eafe

Pins git:20261028.910eafe in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
scdenney/open-science-skills
Path
codex/journal-review/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
6
Latest version
git:20261028.910eafe, committed Oct 28, 2026
First version recorded
Jul 2, 2026
Size
37,680 bytes
Repository stars
69
License
a license file GitHub does not identify

Draft a referee report on someone else's manuscript for a journal editor, using a claim ledger, five adversarial finders, a Blue Team that tests their evidence in both directions, a Chief Reviewer synthesis, a Tone Guard legal pass, and a quote check. Use when the user has been asked to referee a manuscript; self-audits go to paper-review-lite or presubmit, author responses to referee-response.

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

# Journal Article Peer Review

## Heritage and scope

This is the in-session, Codex-native referee-drafting tool. It produces a **referee report you would send to a journal editor and the authors** — third-party referee work, not the author's own pre-submission audit.

The eight-agent design is adapted from the [`presubmit`](https://github.com/scdenney/presubmit) pipeline (itself a port of `reviewer2` / isitcredible.com, Apache-2.0). Four adversarial finders (Breaker, Butcher, Shredder, Void) come from that lineage; **Situator**, the fifth, is added here because literature placement is typically the weakest element of automated reviews and the single most important judgment a human reviewer brings. Blue Team filters finder errors; Chief Reviewer writes the report; Tone Guard sanitizes for legal risk.
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Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add scdenney/open-science-skills/journal-review@sha256:c1e045f9e64bd44e

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261028.910eafe, 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.

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Versions

The registry has recorded 6 versions of this file, between Jul 2, 2026 and Oct 28, 2026, about one every 24 days.

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Audit of the latest version

A  17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.
  • pass: Frontmatter block present
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (37680 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

GitHub

scdenney/open-science-skills · 69 stars · license a license file GitHub does not identify · pushed 2026-11-05 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_4npbnmxipvrymh6v
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=scdenney/open-science-skills/journal-review
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/c1e045f9e64bd44e0c8f9a686866bdd1a9745bc8e3e017582c7deda74c56444c

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