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.