Agri review
Skill PangenomeAI/academic-skills-food-nutrition/agri-review
Open, MIT-licensed food & nutrition science research skills for Claude Code, Codex, and MiniMax Agent — multi-agent literature/systematic review, journal-aware writing, peer review, and figures, plus author-guideline skills for 150+ journals. Initiated by the Food Science Group, University of Melbourne.
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Multi-reviewer peer-review system for agricultural manuscripts. Simulates an editorial panel — a coordinating editor, three domain reviewers (methodology, domain/novelty, integrity/ethics) and a devil's advocate — plus a formatting check against the target journal, all acting as senior agricultural scientists. Same machinery as food-review, including the knowledge_builder that reads the cited sources and key field literature first, grounded in agriculture literature (Q1/Q2 preferred, Q4 avoided) and agricultural standards for field trials, experimental unit and pseudoreplication, animal ethics and soils. Triggers: review my agronomy paper, peer review agricultural manuscript, referee report soil science, critique my crop paper, pre-submission review agriculture, mock review animal science.
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Agri-Review — Peer-Review Panel for Agricultural Science
Run the food-review skill exactly — its panel (review_coordinator,
knowledge_builder, reviewer_methodology, reviewer_domain,
reviewer_integrity, devils_advocate, format_checker), its modes (full ·
quick · methodology · re-review), and its report format — with the agriculture
substitutions in
agri-research/references/agriculture-domain.md.
Read that file first. No new machinery here.
The substitutions
- Persona — every reviewer is a senior agricultural scientist of the specific discipline (agronomy · soil science · horticulture · dairy & animal science · agricultural engineering · agricultural economics & policy). Name the discipline; a soil-carbon paper gets a soil scientist's standards (domain §2).
- Knowledge base —
knowledge_builderruns first, unchanged in method: Pathway A reads the manuscript's cited sources in full and audits whether each supports its claim; Pathway B reads the field's key literature, ranked as Tier 1 Q1/Q2 agriculture (journals/_coverage_agriculture.md)- Nature/Science/Cell/PNAS + Q1/Q2 adjacent disciplines, Q4 avoided. Pathway B
may use
agri-research'sfull reviewbranch for discovery/screening — knowledge extraction only, no literature-review article (domain §3). Insideagri-pipelinewith a Stage-1 evidence base: reuse it and top up withagri-researchquick brief key reviews, exactly asfood-reviewdoes.
- Nature/Science/Cell/PNAS + Q1/Q2 adjacent disciplines, Q4 avoided. Pathway B
may use
- Journal routing —
format_checkeraudits against the journal resolved once byjournal-selectorfrom the agriculture coverage map (domain §4); APA 7.0 default.
What an agricultural reviewer checks first (domain §5)
- The experimental unit / pseudoreplication — subsamples counted as replicates, plants scored as units within one plot, animals within one pen. The single most common fatal flaw; raise it as Critical when present.
- Field-trial reporting — site, season(s)/years, soil classification, cultivar, plot size, design, replication, management, statistical model.
- Generalisation — one site-year, one region, or a pot/glasshouse study presented as a general agronomic recommendation; missing G×E.
- Animal work — ethics approval and ARRIVE; diet composition; unit (pen vs animal).
- Soil work — sampling depth, bulk density, equivalent-soil-mass basis for stock claims.
- Economics/policy — identification strategy; causal language unearned by design.
Inherited unchanged (not optional)
The report format (food-review/references/report-format.md: Parts A/B/C, stable
issue IDs, Response (type) taxonomy, editorial decision — Accept · Minor
Revision · Major Revision · Reject with the decisive reasons) and its
Word (.docx) deliverable rule — never Markdown; inside agri-pipeline this is
the single Review & Response Report that agri-paper later fills responses into,
so no separate reviewer report or response letter is created. Also inherited:
editor-query comments placed in the manuscript for fixes needing the author's
data (word-review-comments.md), the AI-writing-tell check (human-writing.md), the
privacy scan, and the rule that a source never retrieved is marked, not
summarized.