Assess Paper

The single command that tells an author where they stand and explains why, so a non-expert isn't left staring at five separate tool outputs. It does not re-implement any check; it runs the specialist skills and turns their results into one readable Paper Health Report that leads with strengths, then risks, then a ranked to-do list.

Pairs with orchestrate-paper (which drives the full lifecycle) — assess-paper is the read-only "where am I right now" snapshot you can run at any point. Copilot, not pilot: it reports and explains, it never edits the paper or submits anything.

When to use

• The author wants one overview instead of running five skills and stitching the results together.
• Early ("how far off am I?") or late ("am I ready to submit?").
• A co-author or advisor wants a quick, honest state-of-the-paper.

When NOT to use it (say this plainly)

• You want one specific check — run that skill directly (e.g. just citations → verify-citations).
• You want fixes applied — this skill only diagnoses; hand each fix to the skill that owns it.
• You want an acceptance probability or award forecast — no tool can give one honestly; this skill refuses to.

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