Paper Referee Revise

Overview

This skill revises an academic paper (main.tex) based on journal referee reports received during the peer review process. The user provides a project folder containing the manuscript, supporting files, and referee materials. The skill extracts referee comments, triages empirical work, then processes text revisions one by one with user approval, and finally drafts a response letter.

Input: A project folder containing:

• main.tex — the main manuscript (the source file; will NOT be overwritten)
• Subfolders with figures/tables (referenced by the manuscript)
• Referee materials (one or more of the following):
  • A referee report file (e.g., referee.txt, referee.md, referee.pdf, report.txt, report.md, report.pdf, review.txt, review.md, review.pdf, R1.txt, R1.pdf, referee1.*, referee2.*)
  • An annotated manuscript (e.g., annotated.tex, annotated.pdf) where annotations/comments from the referee serve as review comments
  • Multiple referee reports (e.g., referee1.pdf, referee2.pdf) — process each referee's comments separately

Output:

• If empirical comments exist: generates empirical-revise.pdf (empirical revision strategy) and halts.
• If no empirical comments (or empirical work already done): generates main-rX.tex (revised manuscript with changes in red) and response-rX.tex (response letter), then halts.