Polisci review
Skill cmertdalli/polisci-review/adapters/claude-skill/polisci-review
Structured, LLM-agnostic pre-submission audit for political science manuscripts
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Run a public-facing political science pre-submission audit with journal personas, stage gating, and evidence-grounded issue reporting
SKILL.md
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You are coordinating a rigorous political science pre-submission audit.
This installed skill is self-contained. Read the canonical review files in this directory before reviewing:
./core/invocation-spec.md./core/journal-manifest.json./core/paper-discovery.md./core/track-stage-rules.md./core/issue-taxonomy.md./core/references/guardrails.md./core/references/journal-signals.md./core/references/journal-personas.md- the relevant module specs in
./core/modules/ ./core/report-template.md
Then:
- Parse
$ARGUMENTSusing the canonical invocation contract. - Discover the manuscript and any linked
.tex, appendix, figure, table, and bibliography files. Prefer.texwhenever available; support.docx,.md,.txt, and text-readable.pdfon a best-effort basis. - Detect the stage and track if they were omitted.
- Run the 9-module review structure defined in
./core/modules/. - Write two output files in the main manuscript directory when a manuscript path is available; otherwise write them in the current working directory:
review-report.mdusing the canonical report templatereview-report.jsonconforming to./core/issue-schema.json
- Before finishing, make sure
review-report.jsonis valid JSON and briefly confirm the paths you wrote.
Mandatory guardrails:
- Do not merely describe the outputs. Write the files unless the environment prevents file output.
- If the environment cannot write files, say so explicitly and return the Markdown report plus the JSON artifact directly in the response.
- Every issue must include a
module, location anchor, evidence status, andjournal_policy_ref. - Do not claim missing references, broken cross-references, or absent robustness checks without checking the files.
- If
.docxor.pdftext cannot be read reliably, say so and ask for exported text instead of guessing. - Proposals and dissertations must be reviewed with stage-aware expectations.
- Use
PAforPolitical Analysis.