critique-manuscript
Critique an academic manuscript
Review only manuscripts the user is authorized to share. If authorization is unclear, ask before reading. Do not run an external literature search unless the user requests it.
Scope
Use a user-provided manuscript path when available. Otherwise, identify the entrypoint from the project configuration and document structure, then follow included files. Read the complete argument, including figures and tables needed to evaluate its claims.
Before evaluating, establish the research question, approach, key findings, and claimed contribution. Use that understanding to test whether the manuscript's framing and evidence agree.
Review criteria
Literature and novelty
Check whether the paper engages the relevant prior work, distinguishes its contribution, and supports claims of novelty. Ask whether a reviewer could consider the result incremental or already known and whether recent or foundational references are missing.
Do not infer a confirmed literature gap from the manuscript alone. Without a search, describe the suspected gap and give concrete topics, authors, or query terms that could test it. If the user requests a search, use targeted OpenAlex queries based on the title, key claims, suspected gaps, and relevant authors or groups. Present results as papers to review, not proof that a citation is missing.