manuscript-review

# 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. Companion skill: `manuscript-provenance` audits whether manuscript content (numbers, tables, figures, ordering, terminology) is computationally derived from code and scripts. This skill audits the document as prose; that skill audits computational grounding. Run both for complete pre-publication coverage. ## Bounda...