Agent skill

Project Referee

by sundial-org in sundial-org/skills

Critiques ML conference papers with reviewer-style feedback.

No licenceAuto-check passedResearch & Science

Install Project Referee

skills CLI
$ npx skills add sundial-org/skills --skill project-referee -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install sundial-org/skills project-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/sundial-org/skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/project-referee .claude/skills/project-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
project-referee
GitHub stars
152
Token cost
~618 tokens
SKILL.md length
221 words
Files
3 (incl. references)
Skills in repo
13
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
None found

At a glance

Critiques ML conference papers with reviewer-style feedback.

  • Works in 4 steps: Assess Manuscript Stage → Stage-Specific Review → Search for Related Work → …
  • Users want to anticipate reviewer concerns
  • SKILL.md covers Review Workflow, Neuro-Symbolic Papers and References
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Project Referee is an agent skill from sundial-org/skills. Critiques ML conference papers with reviewer-style feedback. Use when users want to anticipate reviewer concerns, identify weaknesses, check claim-evidence gaps, or find missing citations.

Its SKILL.md is about 620 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 3 other files, including reference files (for example `references/neuro-symbolic-review-criteria.md` and `references/reviewer-instructions.md`).

It sits in Research & Science, covering Citation management. The repository describes itself as: Claude Code Skills by Sundial.

When your agent uses it

  • Users want to anticipate reviewer concerns
  • Identify weaknesses
  • Check claim-evidence gaps
  • Find missing citations

Example prompts

  • “Use the project-referee skill to critique ML conference papers with reviewer-style feedback”
  • “/project-referee”

Workflow steps

4 steps, taken from the step headings in SKILL.md.

  1. Assess Manuscript Stage
  2. Stage-Specific Review
  3. Search for Related Work
  4. Provide Structured Feedback

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 5a3bf9f. 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

Project Referee loads about 618 tokens when it runs, and up to ~3.1k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 51 tokens; SKILL.md has 221 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~51
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~618
With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them
~3.1k

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

Without a licence we can't republish the file, so here is its outline and opening line. It has 221 words (~618 tokens).

“Ask or determine the manuscript stage:”

— opening of SKILL.md by sundial-org
name
project-referee

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

SKILL.md and 2 other files (references) in skills/project-referee of sundial-org/skills.

  • SKILL.md
  • references/neuro-symbolic-review-criteria.md
  • references/reviewer-instructions.md

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 5a3bf9f

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Questions about Project Referee

What does Project Referee do?

Critiques ML conference papers with reviewer-style feedback. Project Referee is an agent skill from sundial-org/skills. Critiques ML conference papers with reviewer-style feedback.

When should I use Project Referee?

Project Referee fits situations like: users want to anticipate reviewer concerns; identify weaknesses; check claim-evidence gaps; find missing citations.

How do I install Project Referee in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add sundial-org/skills --skill project-referee -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/project-referee in sundial-org/skills) into .claude/skills/project-referee in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Project Referee in Codex?

Run `npx skills add sundial-org/skills --skill project-referee -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/project-referee in sundial-org/skills) into .agents/skills/project-referee in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Project 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 sundial-org/skills --skill project-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/project-referee, .gemini/skills/project-referee, .github/skills/project-referee and .opencode/skills/project-referee in your project.

What does Project Referee need to run?

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

Does Project 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 Project 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 Project Referee use?

No licence was found for Project Referee or its repository. Without one, default copyright applies: ask the author before reusing or redistributing it.

How many tokens does Project Referee use?

About 618 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 2.5k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full. Its references folder adds about 2.5k tokens, read only when the agent opens those files.

What are the alternatives to Project Referee?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Project Referee: Content Research Writer (weapp-tailwindcss/weapp-tailwindcss, 1.9k stars), Systematic Review Screener (Imbad0202/academic-research-skills, 51k stars), Networkx (zLanqing/codex-claude-academic-skills, 4.7k stars) and Literature Review (neflibata-feng/MyArxiv-Agent, 126 stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Project Referee?

sundial-org (a GitHub organization) maintains it in sundial-org/skills, which has 152 GitHub stars. The repository holds 13 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on July 15, 2026.

Source: sundial-org/skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.