Paper Audit Skill

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Audits academic paper drafts for logical consistency, compliance with standards, and academic integrity using a Triangulation Matrix. Helps during preprint review or before resubmission to identify fatal flaws.

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DocumentationIntermediate
606/2/2026
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#paper-audit#academic-integrity#logical-consistency#compliance-check

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Our review

This tool simulates a ruthless reviewer to check intent-implementation consistency and logical triangulation in a paper draft.

Strengths

  • Layered audit (compliance, triangulation matrix, defensive logic)
  • Identifies gaps between claims and evidence
  • Generates a comprehensive report with pass/fail/warn and verdicts

Limitations

  • Requires a pre-existing checklist for compliance checks
  • May miss issues not covered by the checklist
  • Automated verdicts might lack contextual nuance
When to use it

When you have a paper draft ready for review and need a systematic check of logical consistency and academic integrity.

When not to use it

For creative or stylistic editing, as the tool focuses on rigor and compliance rather than prose quality.

Security analysis

Safe
Quality score85/100

The skill uses only Read, Write, and Glob to audit paper drafts, with no execution of external commands, network access, or destructive file operations. It does not instruct exfiltration of secrets or disabling of safety controls.

No concerns found

Examples

Audit a full paper draft
Please audit my paper draft located at ./paper_draft.md using the paper-audit skill. Run all four layers and save the report to psmfiles/paper_audit_report.md.
Check only triangulation matrix
Perform only Layer 2 (Triangulation Matrix) on the abstract and results section of my paper. Compare each claim in the abstract with the evidence in the results and output a table of promises vs proof.
Defensive audit for logical flaws
Run Layer 3 (Defensive Audit) on my paper draft. Specifically check for baseline manipulation, ablation amnesia, figure-text consistency, variable continuity, and recency of citations. Output a summary of any issues found.

name: paper-audit description: Audit paper drafts for logical consistency, compliance, and academic integrity (Triangulation Matrix). allowed-tools:

  • Read
  • Write
  • Glob

Paper Audit Skill

Goal: Simulate a ruthless reviewer to check Intent-Implementation consistency and logical triangulation.

Workflow

  1. Read Input: Read the user's paper draft (or specific sections).

  2. Load Standards: Read paper-audit/CHECKLIST.md.

  3. Execute Audit Layers:

    • Layer 1: Compliance Check:

      • Check against CHECKLIST.md.
      • Output Pass/Fail/Warn table.
    • Layer 2: The Triangulation Matrix (Strict Verification):

      • Compare Claims (Abstract/Intro) vs. Evidence (Experiments/Results).
      • Output Table:
        • Column 1: The Promise (Specific claims).
        • Column 2: The Proof (Figure/Table #).
        • Column 3: The Gap (Exact match or weak proxy?).
        • Verdict: ✅ Validated / ⚠️ Weak Support / 🔴 Hallucination.
    • Layer 3: Defensive Audit (Logic Stress Test):

      • Baseline Manipulation: Are weak baselines used?
      • Ablation Amnesia: Are modules justified by ablations?
      • Figure-Text Consistency: Do numbers match?
      • Variable Continuity: Are symbols consistent?
      • Recency Check: Are >50% citations from last 1-3 years?
    • Layer 4: The Decision:

      • List top 3 Fatal Flaws.
      • Mock Decision: Accept / Weak Accept / Major Revision / Reject.
  4. Output:

    • Save full report to psmfiles/paper_audit_report.md.
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