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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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Sby Skills Guide Bot
DocumentationIntermediate
6/2/2026
Claude Code
#paper-audit#academic-integrity#logical-consistency#compliance-check

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Automated summary

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.

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How this analysis is made

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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1. Download the file

Download SKILL.md

From the root of a test project, save the file as .skill-downloads/paper-audit-skill-mm5t8aqi/SKILL.md, or use the command below. This folder is for inspecting the skill before installation.

Command for macOS/Linux or WSL: requires a POSIX shell and curl. On Windows without WSL, use the download button and create the folder manually.

mkdir -p '.skill-downloads/paper-audit-skill-mm5t8aqi' && curl --fail --show-error --location 'https://skills-guides.com/api/skills/paper-audit-skill-mm5t8aqi/download' --output '.skill-downloads/paper-audit-skill-mm5t8aqi/SKILL.md.part' && mv '.skill-downloads/paper-audit-skill-mm5t8aqi/SKILL.md.part' '.skill-downloads/paper-audit-skill-mm5t8aqi/SKILL.md'

2. Check prerequisites

Read SKILL.md before using it. If it references scripts or external services, inspect them and prepare the required access in your test environment.

No recognized prerequisites section in this file. This does not mean it is self-contained: libraries, tools and access requirements may be mentioned elsewhere in the content or source repository.

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3. Load the skill

After inspection, copy the complete folder into your project using one of the commands below, then open a new tool session. The command stops if a folder with the same name already exists: compare the files before replacing it.

Claude Code
test -f '.skill-downloads/paper-audit-skill-mm5t8aqi/SKILL.md' && test -s '.skill-downloads/paper-audit-skill-mm5t8aqi/SKILL.md' && mkdir -p '.claude/skills' && test ! -e '.claude/skills/paper-audit' && cp -R '.skill-downloads/paper-audit-skill-mm5t8aqi' '.claude/skills/paper-audit'

OpenSkills

OpenSkills must already be installed. The local install/read procedure is checked with OpenSkills 1.5.0, which requires Node.js ≥ 20.6.0. Catalog slugs are not resolved automatically.

Official OpenSkills installation
openskills install './.skill-downloads/paper-audit-skill-mm5t8aqi'

openskills read 'paper-audit-skill-mm5t8aqi'

Reading should display the installed file content and its base directory. It does not run the skill or install its dependencies.

For an agent that reads AGENTS.md, then sync the index. This command changes AGENTS.md: review the diff before using it.

openskills sync

Manual method or another tool: attach SKILL.md to a conversation, or open it in an agent that can read files. Include any required supporting resources. No universal folder is recognized by every tool.

4. Try a first task

Use a short, synthetic input: an API endpoint, a small document or an interface brief. In a new conversation, attach the file or give the agent its path, then adapt this request:

Read .skill-downloads/paper-audit-skill-mm5t8aqi/SKILL.md and apply its instructions to this example: [describe a test input]. Identify any missing files, dependencies or access. Produce the result requested by the skill without inventing data or running unreviewed scripts.

Expected result: output matching the skill instructions, or a precise list of missing prerequisites. A read confirmation alone does not validate a first use. If an external resource is unavailable, that path remains untested.

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