Reviewer 2 Simulation

Adversarial pre-submission review across multiple reviewer archetypes.

Overview

Stress-tests a manuscript by reading it as Reviewer 2 would. The skill rotates through five reviewer archetypes (the Methodologist, the Theorist, the Generalist, the Skeptic, the Pedant) and surfaces the weaknesses, alternative explanations, and evidence gaps an actual reviewer will probably raise. It returns prioritized concerns with severity ratings and draft responses, separating fatal flaws from issues you can address in revision.

When to use

• To strengthen your research through constructive criticism
• To pressure-test a draft before submission to a journal
• To identify which reviewer concerns are fixable versus fatal
• To anticipate Reviewer 2 pushback on your paper

Download

Unzip into ~/.claude/skills/ (Claude Code) or ~/.codex/skills/ (Codex), then restart your CLI.

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