reviewing-paper-sources SKILL.md skillA
reviewing-paper-sources from chgagne/claude-skills-research is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add chgagne/claude-skills-research/reviewing-paper-sources@git:20260926.af6ea48Pins git:20260926.af6ea48 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- chgagne/claude-skills-research
- Path
reviewing-paper-sources/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- git:20260926.af6ea48, committed Sep 26, 2026
- First version recorded
- Sep 5, 2026
- Size
- 31,226 bytes
- Repository stars
- 5
- License
- MIT
Use when asked to review, critique, or assess an academic paper from its LaTeX sources — including pre-submission critique of a student's or collaborator's draft, or a referee report for a venue. Also when the only artifact is a blind PDF with no sources. Triggers on "review this paper", "assess the paper", "read my student's draft", "referee report", a directory holding main.tex/refs.bib/*.cls, a submission PDF to review, or a request to check a paper's claims, figures, bibliography or math.
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
# Reviewing Paper Sources ## Overview A paper review is an **evidence-gathering exercise, not a reading exercise**. The findings that change a paper come from things you compute or verify, not from things you notice while reading: recomputing the headline statistic, checking every reference against its publisher record, compiling the sources yourself, rendering the figures at print size. **Core principle: never trust an artifact you did not produce.** The committed PDF is stale until proven current. A reference is wrong until checked against a primary source. A reported rate means nothing until you have its sample size. ## Mode: establish this first | | Mode A — internal | Mode B — external | |---|---|---| | Situation | Advisor/self-review of your own group's draft | Referee report for a venue | | Register | Blunt, shared stake in the outcome | Neutral, addressed to authors + chair | | Proposes fixes | Yes, including edits to the sources | No — diagnose only, never rewrite the authors' text | | Artifacts | Review `.md` + `.pdf`, `*-annotated.tex`, `refs-corrected.bib` | Review `.md` + `.pdf` only | | Scores/verdict | Yes (both modes) | Yes | …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add chgagne/claude-skills-research/reviewing-paper-sources@sha256:186c40ddd29310a6The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260926.af6ea48, 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 5 versions of this file, between Sep 5, 2026 and Sep 26, 2026, about one every 5 days.
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| git:20260926.af6ea48 latest | 2026-09-26 | af6ea48 | 31,226 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260925.0635d4d | 2026-09-25 | 0635d4d | 28,412 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260905.6de6c60 | 2026-09-05 | 6de6c60 | 27,406 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260905.54f1412 | 2026-09-05 | 54f1412 | 26,977 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260905.39f30a4 | 2026-09-05 | 39f30a4 | 25,172 B | A | view |
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 (31226 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
chgagne/claude-skills-research · 5 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-16 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_5viimx2lqrnn5h7o GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=chgagne/claude-skills-research/reviewing-paper-sources GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/186c40ddd29310a6a1f719f1102e360dd26cd33ab519c40b21856df97f6bd313
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