A skill your agent uses to rehearse peer review before submitting — a calibrated Associate Editor desk-screen plus 2–3 distinct-lens referees for the target venue, adversarially verified and…

MITAuto-check passedResearch & Science

Install Rt Simulated Referee

skills CLI
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill rt-simulated-referee -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills rt-simulated-referee --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/Research-Toolkit-Skills/skills/rt-simulated-referee .claude/skills/rt-simulated-referee && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
rt-simulated-referee
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~707 tokens
SKILL.md length
248 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
2,387
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

A skill your agent uses to rehearse peer review before submitting — a calibrated Associate Editor desk-screen plus 2–3 distinct-lens referees for the target venue, adversarially verified and…

  • Works in 5 steps: AE desk-screen — fit, general interest,… → Independent referees (distinct lenses:… → Adversarial verification — every major… → …
  • Rehearse peer review before submitting — a calibrated Associate Editor desk-screen plus 2–3 distinct-lens referees for the target venue
  • SKILL.md covers When to trigger, Calibrate first (this is what…, Protocol and Orchestration, plus 2 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Rt Simulated Referee is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use to rehearse peer review before submitting — a calibrated Associate Editor desk-screen plus 2–3 distinct-lens referees for the target venue, adversarially verified and synthesized into a referee report, a decision band, and a prioritized, skill-mapped fix list. A rehearsal that predicts the attack surface; it does not replace real review.

Its SKILL.md is about 710 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

It sits in Research & Science, covering Peer review and Threat modeling. The repository describes itself as: Journal-specific Claude Code/Codex skill packs covering mainstream journals — AER, QJE, Nature, Cell, 管理世界, 经济研究 & 200+ more — your fast track to getting published. | 覆盖主流期刊的… The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Rehearse peer review before submitting — a calibrated Associate Editor desk-screen plus 2–3 distinct-lens referees for the target venue
  • Adversarially verified and synthesized into a referee report
  • A decision band
  • Skill-mapped fix list

Example prompts

  • “/rt-simulated-referee”

Workflow steps

5 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. AE desk-screen — fit, general interest, fatal flaws → desk-reject risk; stop if a clear desk reject.
  2. Independent referees (distinct lenses: identification skeptic · contribution/fit ·
  3. Adversarial verification — every major concern must be **real + specific +
  4. AE synthesis — one decision band (reject / major / minor / lean-accept) + the 1–3
  5. Skill-mapped fix list — each decisive issue → the pack skill (and its execution

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 932eb23. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Rt Simulated Referee loads about 707 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 91 tokens; SKILL.md has 248 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~91
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~707

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills at commit 932eb23, republished under its MIT licence (© brycewang-stanford). 248 words, ~707 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/rt-simulated-referee/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
rt-simulated-referee
description
Use to rehearse peer review before submitting — a calibrated Associate Editor desk-screen plus 2–3 distinct-lens referees for the target venue, adversarially verified and synthesized into a referee report, a decision band, and a prioritized, skill-mapped fix list. A rehearsal that predicts the attack surface; it does not replace real review.

Simulated Referee (rt-simulated-referee)

Run the substantive gauntlet before a real referee does. Full protocol + a worked example: shared-resources/submission-readiness/simulated-referee.md.

When to trigger

  • After rt-submission-readiness clears the mechanical bar.
  • When the author wants to know the decisive objection before submitting.

Calibrate first (this is what makes it realistic)

Pull the venue's bar from the target pack, not generic intuition: acceptance/desk-reject reality + mechanics from resources/official-source-map.md; what this venue's referees attack from *-referee-strategy + the shared reviewer-objection-checklist; the fit/identification/robustness bar from the pack's skills. Set strictness to the venue's selectivity.

Protocol

  1. AE desk-screen — fit, general interest, fatal flaws → desk-reject risk; stop if a clear desk reject.
  2. Independent referees (distinct lenses: identification skeptic · contribution/fit · robustness/reproducibility) each write a structured report.
  3. Adversarial verification — every major concern must be real + specific + addressable or be downgraded.
  4. AE synthesis — one decision band (reject / major / minor / lean-accept) + the 1–3 decisive issues.
  5. Skill-mapped fix list — each decisive issue → the pack skill (and its execution bridge) that fixes it.

Orchestration

Spawn one subagent per role with the same manuscript + the calibrated venue bar; collect independent reports; a final AE-synthesis agent. Distinct lenses + independence catch more than a single read.

Hard rules

  1. Calibrate from the pack + source-map, never generic.
  2. Verify before reporting (real / specific / addressable).
  3. Map every decisive issue to a skill + execution bridge.
  4. It's a rehearsal — output a decision band and the decisive issues, never a fake accept probability.

Output format

【Venue】… (calibrated)
【Desk-screen】send out / desk reject — reason; risk low/med/high
【Decision band】reject / major / minor / lean-accept
【Decisive issues (1–3)】each with owning pack skill + concrete fix
【Author action plan】ordered; tie each to a skill + tool

Next: address the decisive issues, then rt-response-to-referees for a real R&R.

© brycewang-stanford, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

Just SKILL.md in Research-Toolkit-Skills/skills/rt-simulated-referee of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Rt Simulated Referee

What does Rt Simulated Referee do?

A skill your agent uses to rehearse peer review before submitting — a calibrated Associate Editor desk-screen plus 2–3 distinct-lens referees for the target venue, adversarially verified and…. Rt Simulated Referee is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use to rehearse peer review before submitting — a calibrated Associate Editor desk-screen plus 2–3 distinct-lens referees for the target venue, adversarially verified and synthesized into a referee report, a decision band, and a prioritized, skill-mapped fix list.

When should I use Rt Simulated Referee?

Rt Simulated Referee fits situations like: rehearse peer review before submitting — a calibrated Associate Editor desk-screen plus 2–3 distinct-lens referees for the target venue; adversarially verified and synthesized into a referee report; A decision band; skill-mapped fix list.

How do I install Rt Simulated Referee in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill rt-simulated-referee -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (Research-Toolkit-Skills/skills/rt-simulated-referee in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .claude/skills/rt-simulated-referee in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Rt Simulated Referee in Codex?

Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill rt-simulated-referee -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (Research-Toolkit-Skills/skills/rt-simulated-referee in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .agents/skills/rt-simulated-referee in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Rt Simulated Referee in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill rt-simulated-referee -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/rt-simulated-referee, .gemini/skills/rt-simulated-referee, .github/skills/rt-simulated-referee and .opencode/skills/rt-simulated-referee in your project.

What does Rt Simulated Referee need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Rt Simulated Referee is instructions for the agent only.

Does Rt Simulated Referee access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Rt Simulated Referee safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Rt Simulated Referee use?

Rt Simulated Referee is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Rt Simulated Referee use?

About 707 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 2.8k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

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Who maintains Rt Simulated Referee?

brycewang-stanford (a GitHub user) maintains it in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills, which has 1,219 GitHub stars. The repository holds 2,387 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on September 27, 2026.

Source: brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.