aer-literaturelisted

# AER Literature ## Overview This skill does two jobs that AER referees grade separately: 1. **Positioning** — finding the closest predecessors, mapping what each did and missed, and choosing the value-added claim the paper can actually defend. A mispositioned paper draws the fatal report sentence "the authors appear unaware of [paper]." 2. **Citation integrity** — guaranteeing that every reference exists, says what the manuscript claims it says, and is cited to the right version. The second job is **non-negotiable for AI-assisted manuscripts**. Language models produce plausible-looking citations that do not exist, attach real authors to invented titles, and attribute findings to papers that show the opposite. One hallucinated reference, found by a referee, destroys the credibility of every other sentence in the paper. The working rule: > **No citation is written from memory. Every entry is verified against a > fetched source before it enters the bibliography, and every claim about a > paper is verified against that paper's actual text.** ## When to Use - During `aer-topic-selection`, to run the novelty scan before committing - Before `aer-introduction`, to build the antecedents paragraph - When a referee names a missed paper and the positioning needs repair - Before submission, as the bibliography verification pass (pairs with `aer-consistency`) ## Search Protocol Run all five channels — each finds papers the others miss: 1. **Working-paper series**: