Submission Audit

Overview

Use this skill for late-stage manuscript QA. It is narrower than manuscript-optimizer: do not use it to redesign a paper from scratch. Use it when the structure mostly exists and the main task is to catch the failures that survive normal revision cycles.

The core rule is simple: never treat a clean-looking manuscript as submission-ready until the front half, figures, legends, methods, supplement, and venue expectations have been checked against each other.

Use the helper script when you want a fast local pass over figure citations:

python ~/.codex/skills/submission-audit/scripts/check_figure_refs.py path/to/manuscript.md
# Claude Code (global install): replace ~/.codex/skills with ~/.claude/skills
# Claude Code (project-local install): replace ~/.codex/skills with .claude/skills

When To Use