Baseline Selection Audit

Turn a claim, method, draft experiment plan, or literature map into a reviewer-proof baseline set and fairness ledger.

Use this skill when:

• experiments are being planned and the right baselines are unclear
• a literature review found competitors but they have not been converted into comparisons
• a paper may be missing SOTA, direct competitors, classics, ablation baselines, or control baselines
• a reviewer might complain about unfair tuning, scale, data, compute, protocol, or metric differences
• a rebuttal or revision needs to decide which additional baseline experiment is worth running
• the user needs to justify why a baseline is excluded as not comparable

Do not use this skill for citation metadata checks. Use citation-audit for BibTeX and LaTeX correctness. Use citation-coverage-audit when the primary question is missing references rather than missing comparisons.

Pair this skill with:

• literature-review-sprint before this skill when the competing paper map is incomplete
• algorithm-design-planner when the closest baseline changes the method design