manuscript-review

manuscript-review is a skill for Claude Code from Mathews-Tom/armory. It costs 70 tokens per session (4,508 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A pre-submission review for academic or technical papers, including papers shared on arXiv, a public website for research preprints.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to audit a manuscript section by section and create a prioritized improvement plan before submission.
Why use it?
It helps reveal structural, reasoning, clarity, citation, and reproducibility problems that authors may miss when they are too close to their own work.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the armory plugin — 85 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to audit a manuscript section by section and create a prioritized improvement plan before submission.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/mathews-tom/armory/manuscript-review
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add Mathews-Tom/armory --skill manuscript-review
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Mathews-Tom/armory

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install armory, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 85 skills.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 70 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,508 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00070 $0.04508
Opus 5 $0.00035 $0.02254
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00902
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00451

Measured 10d ago against content hash c87d22042425, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

manuscript-review scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 10d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/manuscript-review/SKILL.md · 441 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 441 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Manuscript Review Skill

Pipeline position: Phase 1a (content audit). Runs in parallel with figure-rhetoric. No prior dependencies. Outputs consumed by manuscript-provenance (macro manifest feedback) and figure-rhetoric (claims map for visual argument assessment). See companion skills for full pre-publication coverage: manuscript-typography (typographic conventions), citation-audit (citation truth), arxiv-preflight (submission compliance).

Purpose

Execute a comprehensive, multi-pass diagnostic audit of an academic or technical manuscript, producing a structured improvement report that identifies issues across 24 audit dimensions — from macro-coherence and argumentative architecture through claims-evidence calibration, narrative flow, prose microstructure, rendered visual inspection, and cross-element coherence, down to citation hygiene and reproducibility.

The output is a prioritized, actionable improvement plan — not a line edit. The goal is to surface structural, logical, and clarity issues that authors systematically miss because they're too close to the text.

Optimized for arXiv/preprint submissions with flexible compliance standards.

Companion skill: manuscript-provenance audits whether manuscript content (numbers, tables, figures, ordering, terminology) is computationally derived from code and scripts. This skill audits the document as prose; that skill audits computational grounding. Run both for complete pre-publication coverage.

Boundary Agreement with manuscript-provenance

Concern This skill (manuscript-review) manuscript-provenance
Reproducibility Does the paper describe enough to reproduce? (§6) Does the code actually produce what the paper claims? (§1, §7)
Figures/Tables Legible, accessible, well-formatted? (§12) Generated by scripts, not manual entry? (§2, §3)
Rendered visuals Readable at print scale? Floats near references? (§23) Figure generation script produces correct format? (§3)
Hyperparameters Listed in the paper with rationale? (§6) Values trace to config files, not hardcoded? (§1, §8)
Code availability Statement exists in the paper? (§17) Repo URL valid, README accurate, pipeline works? (§11)
Terminology Abbreviations consistent within document? (§14) Terms match code identifiers? (§5)
Significant figures Consistent precision within document? (§12) Precision matches script output? (§2)
Figure format Appropriate format for document quality? (§12) Format generated by script, not manually exported? (§3)
Computational cost Reported in the paper? (§7) Values trace to benchmarking scripts? (§1)
Macro-prose coherence Prose framing appropriate for injected value? (§24) Value traced to code, macro manifest produced? (§4)
Cross-element consistency Prose, captions, figures, tables mutually consistent? (§24) All elements from same run/pipeline output? (§9)

Read the full file on GitHub · 441 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 10d ago First seen · 441 lines · 70 tokens per session scan A c87d22042425

Subscribe to this mod's changes

manuscript-review is a skill published in the GitHub repository Mathews-Tom/armory (316 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 70 tokens to every session and 4,508 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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