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.
mdr add scdenney/open-science-skills/journal-review@git:20261028.910eafePins 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
plugin/skills/journal-review/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 10
- Latest version
- git:20261028.910eafe, committed Oct 28, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jul 27, 2026
- Size
- 39,541 bytes
- Repository stars
- 69
- License
- a license file GitHub does not identify
Drafts a referee report for a journal editor. Builds a ledger of the manuscript's load-bearing claims, runs five parallel adversarial finders against it (Breaker, Butcher, Shredder, Void, Situator), has a Blue Team test their evidence in both directions and rule on each claim, then writes a recommendation, claim-and-design summary, three to six decision-driving concerns tied to the claims they reach, additional concerns, and a revision plan, followed by a Tone Guard legal pass, a quote check…
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, Claude-Code-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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How to install
mdr add scdenney/open-science-skills/journal-review@sha256:96892d864f108526The 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 10 versions of this file, between Jul 27, 2026 and Oct 28, 2026, about one every 10 days.
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| git:20261028.910eafe latest | 2026-10-28 | 910eafe | 39,541 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261028.eeb4340 | 2026-10-28 | eeb4340 | 30,526 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261008.697c89f | 2026-10-08 | 697c89f | 30,557 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260923.ff95557 | 2026-09-23 | ff95557 | 31,354 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260909.08bf795 | 2026-09-09 | 08bf795 | 31,348 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260905.c12f077 | 2026-09-05 | c12f077 | 31,495 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260902.8289c42 | 2026-09-02 | 8289c42 | 31,464 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260808.872bba0 | 2026-08-08 | 872bba0 | 30,017 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260808.6bd6396 | 2026-08-08 | 6bd6396 | 29,705 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260727.84e047e | 2026-07-27 | 84e047e | 29,336 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 (39541 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
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_x4ftajfg4lsin6vv GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=scdenney/open-science-skills/journal-review GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/96892d864f10852671bbe209168f5dbd0159e2748c6f7926bdfe868faf9549c3
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