# pre-submission-reviewer

Reviews a paper across five dimensions: macro logic, writing, English grammar, LaTeX and figures. Returns prioritised findings — useful in the days before a deadline.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 731 installs · ★ 10652
- Author: HKUSTDial
- License: CC-BY-4.0 · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/HKUSTDial/Supervisor-Skills/tree/HEAD/skills/pre-submission-reviewer/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-16
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/pre-submission-reviewer

## What it does

The skill runs a paper through five dimensions: macro logic, writing details, English grammar, LaTeX formatting, figure quality. Output is a list of findings tagged CRITICAL, MAJOR or MINOR. It does not rewrite anything; you pick the fixes, and CRITICAL items are meant to block a submission until they are closed.

Review starts with paradigm and venue. In STEM it weighs the Introduction chain, whether contributions map to sections, baseline coverage and ablation-based attribution; in the humanities, whether the material can carry the thesis; in empirical social science and finance, sampling, statistics and identification; in law, the accuracy of statutes and case citations. A venue whose scope does not fit the paper gets flagged as a finding. Then come passes over paragraph structure, the grammar errors non-native authors make most often, and mechanics: em-dashes and AI-tone vocabulary are caught against a banned-word list.

One limitation matters here. Novelty and citation-completeness checks need a scholarly search tool or shell access to public APIs. Without that, the two checks are skipped and the summary says so. You still get the logic and language pass, but not a second opinion on whether Related Work missed a key paper. Three to five days before the deadline is when this run is worth most.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add HKUSTDial/Supervisor-Skills --skill pre-submission-reviewer -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/pre-submission-reviewer/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/pre-submission-reviewer/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add HKUSTDial/Supervisor-Skills --skill pre-submission-reviewer -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/pre-submission-reviewer/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add HKUSTDial/Supervisor-Skills --skill pre-submission-reviewer -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/pre-submission-reviewer/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install HKUSTDial/Supervisor-Skills pre-submission-reviewer
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/pre-submission-reviewer/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add HKUSTDial/Supervisor-Skills --skill pre-submission-reviewer -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/HKUSTDial/Supervisor-Skills --path skills/pre-submission-reviewer
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/pre-submission-reviewer/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add HKUSTDial/Supervisor-Skills --skill pre-submission-reviewer -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/HKUSTDial/Supervisor-Skills/tree/HEAD/skills/pre-submission-reviewer/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- catch a broken Introduction chain before submitting
- map contributions to sections and ablations
- fix articles and subject-verb agreement in the English text
- strip em-dashes and AI-tone wording from the draft
- check whether the sample supports the claims in an empirical paper

## Example prompts
- Review this paper before submission, I need the findings ranked by severity
- Check Related Work for missing key papers on this topic
- Go through the grammar in Section 3, English only

## Source text · SKILL.md · CC-BY-4.0

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---
name: pre-submission-reviewer
description: >-
  Runs a pre-submission review of a technical paper across five
  dimensions: macro logic, writing details, English grammar, LaTeX
  formatting, and figure quality. Uses a reviewer-style severity
  taxonomy (CRITICAL / MAJOR / MINOR) and flags banned AI-tone
  vocabulary and em-dash misuse. Use when the user asks to 'review
  this paper', 'audit before submission', 'check the draft', 'find
  issues', 'proofread', or within one week of a submission
  deadline.
license: CC-BY-4.0
---

# Pre-Submission Reviewer

## Overview

Three to five days before a submission deadline is the window where
a careful external review pays off most. This skill takes a full
paper or key sections and produces a structured review across five
dimensions, each with severity-tagged findings and concrete
rewrite suggestions. It enforces the mechanical rules from the
writing-checklist section (no em-dashes, no banned AI-tone
vocabulary, leading text per paragraph, topic-sentence discipline,
citation-format uniformity) and surfaces the patterns that
non-native English-speaking authors most commonly violate
(articles, subject-verb agreement, tense consistency, which versus
that, Chinglish phrasing).

The output is not a rewrite. It is a prioritised list of findings
with severity tags; the author decides which to fix. CRITICAL items
should block submission until addressed.

## When to use this skill

- Three to five days before a submission deadline.
- The user asks to 'review this paper', 'audit before submission',
  'check the draft', 'find issues', 'proofread'.
- After a camera-ready revision, before sending the final version.
- After any major rewrite (rebuttal responses, Section 3 overhaul).
- When the user suspects AI-tone contamination in a section.

## When NOT to use this skill

- The paper is still being structured. Use `tech-paper-template`,
  `intro-drafter`, or `benchmark-paper-template` (separate plugin) first.
- The user wants structural advice rather than review. Use the
  drafting skills instead.

## Core procedure

### Step 0: paradigm and venue fit

Before the dimensional review, settle two things.
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