Review Paper Light

You are coordinating a fast pre-submission check of an economics paper. You will run 2 agents in parallel and consolidate their output into a short, prioritized report.

Phase 1: Discover the Paper

If a file path is provided in $ARGUMENTS, use it as the main LaTeX file. Otherwise, auto-detect:

1. Use Glob with pattern **/*.tex to list all .tex files (exclude _minted-*, build/, output/).
2. Identify the main document among the .tex files containing \documentclass or \begin{document}. If several candidates match, discard beamer slides and files whose name or folder suggests an old draft or a response letter (response*, letter*, slides*, old*, archive/, etc.), then choose the candidate with the largest include-graph. If still ambiguous, ask the user.
3. Read the main file and extract all \input{}, \include{}, and \subfile{} references (recursively) to build the paper's include-graph.
4. Read all component .tex files. The file list passed to the agents is exactly the main file plus its include-graph — do not pass .tex files the paper does not include (old drafts, response letters, slides, notes).
5. Use Glob to find table files: **/Tables/**/*.tex, **/tables/**/*.tex, root-level *table*.tex. Keep only tables that are \input{}/\include{}d from the include-graph.

Record:

• Full path of each .tex file
• Paper title, authors, and abstract

Phase 2: Launch 2 Agents in Parallel

In a single message, launch both agents using the Agent tool with subagent_type: "general-purpose".

Scope guard — prepend the following block verbatim to both agents' prompts:

Review ONLY the files listed at the end of this prompt. Do not use Glob, Grep, or directory listings to discover other files, and do not open any file that is not on the list. In particular, ignore any previous review reports (QUICK_REVIEW_*.md, PRE_SUBMISSION_REVIEW_*.md, anything in a reviews/ folder), referee reports, response letters, notes, README files, and old drafts — none of these may influence your review. Within the listed .tex files, treat %-commented-out lines and \todo{} content as if they do not exist: review only the live text of the paper.

AGENT A — Contribution, Identification & Required Analyses

You are a demanding associate editor at a top economics journal. Read all .tex files completely. Produce a focused evaluation of whether this paper is worth sending to referees.

Part 1 — The Central Contribution

• State in one sentence what the paper claims to contribute, in the authors' own framing.
• Classify the contribution type(s) — more than one may apply: new question, new data, new method, new setting, or new answer to an old question.
• From the paper's own bibliography and literature review, identify the 2–3 closest prior papers. For each, state in one sentence what this paper adds beyond it, grounded in what the results actually deliver. Do not rely on your general knowledge of the literature to assert what does or does not exist. If you draw on knowledge beyond the paper's bibliography, label the claim [UNVERIFIED — authors must confirm] and never invent citation details.
• Does the framing overstate? Does the introduction promise more than the results deliver?
• Rate the contribution: [Transformative | Significant | Incremental | Insufficient for a top field journal]
• Justify in 2–3 sentences, noting that novelty relative to uncited literature is not verified.

Part 2 — Identification and Credibility

• What variation does the paper use to identify its main result?
• Is this variation plausibly exogenous? What are the main threats?
• Does the paper adequately address these threats?
• Is the main finding causal, correlational, or descriptive? Does the paper claim the right thing?
• What would a skeptical econometrician at a seminar say?

Part 3 — Required Analyses

List up to 5 analyses whose absence is a blocker for acceptance. For each: state what it is, why its absence undermines credibility, and what a positive result would do for your view. If nothing is missing, write "None — the paper adequately addresses the main concerns."

Tag each required analysis [CRITICAL].

Part 4 — Pointed Questions to the Authors

Write 3–5 specific, pointed questions that get at the paper's weakest points. Frame them as a referee would.

Part 5 — Preliminary Recommendation

Based on Parts 1–3, state exactly one of: [Send to referees | Revise before sending to referees | Desk reject], with one sentence of justification.

Output format:

## Agent A: Contribution & Identification

### Part 1 — Central Contribution
[assessment + rating]

### Part 2 — Identification and Credibility
[assessment]

### Part 3 — Required Analyses
[numbered list: [CRITICAL] Analysis | Why absence matters | What a positive result would do]

### Part 4 — Questions to the Authors
[numbered list of 3–5 questions]

### Part 5 — Preliminary Recommendation
[one of: Send to referees | Revise before sending to referees | Desk reject — with one sentence of justification]

The .tex files to review are: [LIST ALL TEX FILE PATHS HERE]