Peer Review Assistant
Guides an authorized reviewer through evidence-bounded, confidential peer-review drafting for manuscripts, protocols, preprints, and proposals.
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What it does
- Enforces an intake gate that documents authorization, confidentiality, conflicts, venue AI policy, and retention plans before any unpublished text is inspected.
- Selects the right reporting guideline (CONSORT, PRISMA, ARRIVE, etc.) and runs a non-scoring coverage audit locally.
- Builds a claim–evidence matrix, audits statistics and reproducibility, and checks citation-key consistency plus figure/table integrity.
- Generates a scaffold that keeps author comments separate from confidential editor notes, then lints for placeholders, abusive tone, and decision language that belongs to the editor.
- All bundled CLIs are deterministic, Python-stdlib, local-only — no network, model, or image calls.
Who it's for
- Researchers and editorial board members handling assigned reviews
- Program officers or PIs internally appraising protocols and grant proposals
- Authors who want a rigorous self-review before submission
Examples
- Reviewing an RCT manuscript: pass intake validation → check CONSORT coverage → map central claims to results → draft prioritized major/minor comments with location, evidence, and requested action.
- Preprint reproducibility pass: audit data/code availability, package versions, seeds and run instructions, then write proportionate requests instead of demanding new experiments.
- Pre-submission self-check: run
audit_citations.pyagainst your Markdown and references CSV, thenlint_review.pyto strip placeholders and unsupported criticism.
· · · Install guide · · ·
Try it now, no install
Paste this into Claude to use the skill without installing anything.
Read the instructions in this file and follow them to help me: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills/HEAD/skills/peer-review/SKILL.md What I want: (describe your task here)
If Claude can't open the link, open it yourself and paste the contents instead.
↓ If it works for you, download the ZIP below and install it. Then it runs on its own — no pasting each time.
Install in the Claude app (no terminal)
- Download the ZIP with the button below.
- In Claude, open Settings → Capabilities and turn on 'Code execution and file creation'. (one time)
- Go to Customize → Skills → + → 'Upload a skill' and upload the ZIP.
Install in Claude Code
Let Claude do it — paste this into Claude Code
Install the skill I found on Claude Skill Mart. Copy the skills/peer-review folder from the GitHub repo K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills into my ~/.claude/skills/peer-review/. When it's done, tell me in one line what this skill can do.
Install with a command instead
git clone https://github.com/K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills.git && mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && cp -r scientific-agent-skills/skills/peer-review ~/.claude/skills/⚠ This is a third-party skill. Check the source repository before installing.
- Open a terminal and confirm Python:
python3 --version(3.11+ recommended). - Clone the repo:
git clone https://github.com/K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills.git - Create the skills folder:
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills - Copy the skill in:
cp -r scientific-agent-skills/skills/peer-review ~/.claude/skills/ - Restart Claude Code and ask something like "help me prepare a peer-review draft for this authorized manuscript".
- Start by copying
assets/review_intake_template.json, filling it out, and runningpython3 scripts/validate_review_intake.py completed-intake.jsonuntil you getREADY_FOR_LOCAL_REVIEW.
View source on GitHub ↗License: MIT