paper-reviewlisted
Install: claude install-skill ajbarea/techne
# Paper Review
## Overview
A pre-submission **novelty + reviewer pass** that grounds every judgment in a *retrieved* paper.
Naive LLM review asserts novelty from memory and invents citations; this skill retrieves real
prior work, quotes it, and cross-checks the draft's bibliography — then surfaces (without
adjudicating) any overlap with a lab or co-author line that has to be disclosed.
**Core principle:** a novelty claim is only as good as the paper it is checked against. Every
verdict cites a record retrieved this run with a verbatim snippet, or it is marked
**unverified** — the analogue of `techne:paper`'s "never hand-type a result number".
## When to use
- A first-author draft is approaching submission and needs a distinctness + related-work check.
- "Review `<name>` for novelty", "what am I missing", "is C2 actually new".
- NOT for copy-editing prose; NOT for a paper with no stated contributions yet (scaffold first
with `techne:paper`).
## Inputs
- `<name>` — the paper directory under `papers/` (e.g. `velocity-fl-systems`).
- `--from <repo>` (optional) — the source code repo; grounds quantitative claims against its
harvest output.
## Config
Read `## paper-review` from `<repo>/.claude/skill-context.md`: `lab_line` (overlap source of
truth, default `LINEAGE.md`), `retrieval` (default OpenAlex + web; Semantic Scholar only if
`S2_API_KEY` is set), `mailto` (OpenAlex polite pool, default `git config user.email`), `report`
(default `papers/<name>/novelty-review.md`