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Reviews a manuscript, proposal, analysis or result the way a careful referee does, reading the whole artifact, checking the methods against the claims, the statistics against the design, the figures against the numbers, and reporting BLOCKING issues separately from observations, with a calibrated recommendation. Use for peer review, critical appraisal of a paper or claim, pre-submission review of the user's own draft, grant review, or evaluating research rigor. For fixing the text afterwards use paper-writing; for an independent second opinion delegate a read to an explore worker.

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# Peer review

A review's job is to tell the authors, and the editor, whether the evidence supports the
claims, and what would have to change if it does not. It is not a summary, not a list of
typos, and not an opinion about how interesting the topic is. Read everything, check
what can be checked, and separate what blocks from what would help.

## Non-negotiables

1. **Read the whole artifact** including appendices, supplementary tables, and code when it
   is provided. A review of the first eight pages is not a review.
2. **Check, do not just read.** Recompute a number when the inputs are there; rerun a
   provided analysis; compare a figure to the table it summarizes; check that the test
   matches the design (paired vs unpaired, multiple comparisons, dependence).