Reviewer 2 🔪

Meet Reviewer 2 before they meet you. 在 Reviewer 2 找上你之前,先让他帮你挑一遍。

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Point it at your paper draft. It simulates a full peer-review panel — the generous champion, the brutal Reviewer 2, and a novelty-hawk Area Chair — predicts the reviews you'll get, and hands you a prioritized, evidence-grounded fix list. Every criticism is pinned to a line in your draft. No invented flaws.

A Claude Code skill for researchers who'd rather get torn apart in private.

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The problem

You already know the feeling. You submit. Three months later, Reviewer 2 writes the words that sink your paper:

"The baselines are weak and the improvements are not statistically significant. Reject."

The brutal part: most of those wounds were self-inflicted and fixable — a missing baseline, an un-controlled confound, an overclaim in the abstract, a number with no error bars. You just didn't have a hostile reader before the deadline.

reviewer-2 is that hostile reader. It runs the panel on your draft now, while you can still fix things.

What it does

You give it a draft (.pdf, .tex, .md, an arXiv link, or pasted text). It produces a red-team report:

1. Simulated reviews from a panel that genuinely disagrees with itself —
   • 🫶 R1, The Champion — finds your real contribution (and calibrates what's actually strong: where even R1 can't praise, you're weak).
   • 🔪 R2, The Methodological Skeptic — the one you're afraid of. Hunts weak baselines, missing ablations, confounds, cherry-picking, overclaiming, single-run "SOTA".
   • 🦅 R3 / AC, The Novelty Hawk — "isn't this just X + Y?" Demands what's actually new versus recent work.
2. An Area Chair meta-review — consensus weaknesses (the deadly ones), split opinions, the 2–3 decisive factors, and a predicted outcome (Reject / Borderline / Accept).
3. A pre-submission fix list — every weakness, deduped and sorted by impact × effort, each one telling you what to change, where, and whether you can realistically do it before the deadline.

Does it actually find real flaws? (a real run)

We pointed it at a real, recent arXiv preprint — a reasoning-efficiency benchmark — and let it pick the paper itself. The simulated R2 caught a textbook methodological flaw, pinned to a section:

🔪 R2: The headline claim is "models differ wildly in token usage." But the paper deliberately selects problems with high token-usage variance [§3.1, §4.1] — so the dramatic difference may be manufactured by the sampling criterion itself. That's circular. Needs a control on a random, unbiased sample.

That's not "consider adding more experiments." That's "your conclusion is baked into your sampling — see §3.1." — exactly the wound a real Reviewer 2 lands, found in minutes, before submission.

(We keep the paper anonymous on purpose. This tool is for red-teaming your own draft, not dunking on other people's.)

Two modes

• A — Red-team your own draft before submission → simulated panel + predicted outcome + fix list.
• B — Review someone else's paper when you're an assigned reviewer or helping your advisor → a fair, venue-formatted, submission-ready review you sign off on.

Grounded in real standards — rigorous and fair

Built on the official reviewer guidelines of NeurIPS, ICLR, and ACL Rolling Review — the same dimensions and rating scales real reviewers use. Crucially, every criticism is checked against ACL's official H1–H17 list of illegitimate critiques — "not novel" with no citation, "doesn't beat SOTA", "the method is too simple", "the authors should run extra experiment X", "limitations = weaknesses"… If a complaint is on that list, the tool drops it or demotes it to a gentle suggestion. That's the line between a rigorous reviewer and a toxic one — Reviewer 2 with the receipts, not the cheap shots.

And the checklist isn't hand-waved — it's distilled from 2,956 real ICLR 2024 reviews (public on OpenReview). The data is blunt: weak novelty, poor positioning, and overclaiming are what actually sink papers, while "doesn't beat SOTA" and "you should run more experiments" are common but barely move the score. In other words, the real data confirms the fairness firewall. → methodology & numbers

The one rule that makes it trustworthy

No naked criticism, and no invented flaws.

• Every weakness is pinned to a location in your draft — [§4.2], [Table 1], ["a short quote"] — or explicitly flagged ⚠ MISSING (because a missing baseline is a finding, not a hallucination).
• If a dimension has no real problem, it says so. It will not manufacture a weakness to look thorough. A confident-but-fake criticism is worse than none.
• It separates 🔴 substance (your method/experiments don't hold up — may need new runs) from 🟡 misread-risk (you're actually fine, but the writing hands a reviewer the gun) from 🟢 polish. These get fixed completely differently, and conflating them is how you waste your last week before a deadline.

Why not just ask ChatGPT "review my paper"?

	Generic "review my paper"	Reviewer 2
Multiple reviewers who disagree	—	✅
Every criticism pinned to a location in your draft	sometimes	✅
Refuses to invent flaws when none exist	—	✅
Separates "real flaw" from "will be misread"	—	✅
Predicts the decisive factors, not a wall of nits	—	✅
A prioritized fix list sorted by impact × effort	—	✅
Honest about "can you fix this before the deadline?"	—	✅

It's a structured workflow with a schema and an evidence contract — not a one-shot prompt.

Install

As a plugin (recommended):

# Point Claude Code at this repo as a plugin source, then enable it
/plugin

Or manually — copy the skill into your skills directory:

cp -r skills/paper-redteam ~/.claude/skills/

Usage

> Red-team my draft before I submit: ~/papers/adaprompt/main.tex

You'll get a report at redteam/<paper-slug>.md: simulated reviews → AC meta-review → a prioritized fix list.

Tell it where you're submitting to sharpen the panel:

> Red-team this for NeurIPS, and add a reproducibility-stickler reviewer.

See examples/example-redteam.md for a full sample report (on a fictional paper).

Honest limitations

• It's a simulation, not a verdict. Predicted scores reflect which guns your current draft walks into — not what real reviewers, sampled on a real day in a real competition, will actually do. It lowers your reject risk; it does not promise acceptance.
• It won't fabricate experiments. When the fix is "run an ablation," it tells you what to run and why — it never invents results.
• It doesn't rewrite your paper. It produces a diagnosis. Acting on it is your call.

Roadmap

• v1 (now): Two modes (red-team your own draft / review others' papers), grounded in NeurIPS/ICLR/ACL guidelines + the H1–H17 fairness firewall. ✅
• v2: Rebuttal Copilot — feed in the real reviews you got back; get a point-by-point response grounded in your paper that never promises experiments you didn't run.
• v2: Venue packs (CVPR / ACL / journal) that swap in the right review priorities.
• v2: A "defended draft" diff — show which fixes you applied and which guns are now spiked.

Acknowledgments

Architecture and the evidence-grounded, output-is-an-artifact discipline are studied from academic-research-skills (structured artifacts / contract patterns) and nature-skills (no-claim-without-evidence, modular references). We borrow their patterns, not their code. Sibling skill: paper-method-bridge.

License

MIT — free forever.

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Reviewer 2 🔪(中文)

在 Reviewer 2 找上你之前,先让他帮你挑一遍。

↑ English · 中文

把论文草稿丢进来,它模拟一个完整的审稿小组——温和的拥护者、暴躁的 Reviewer 2、卡 novelty 的 area chair——预测你会拿到的评审,并给你一份按优先级排序、证据绑死的修补清单。每条批评都钉在你草稿的具体某一行,绝不脑补不存在的毛病。

一个给研究者的 Claude Code 技能(skill)——宁可先在私下被撕碎。

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它解决什么

那种感觉你太熟了。投出去,三个月后,Reviewer 2 写下那句毙掉你论文的话:

"baseline 偏弱,提升不显著。Reject。"

最扎心的是:这些伤多半是自己造成、且本可修补的——少比了一个 baseline、没控住一个混淆变量、摘要里吹大了、某个数字没有误差棒。你只是在 deadline 前,缺一个怀着敌意的读者。

reviewer-2 就是那个敌意读者。 它趁你还能改的时候,现在就把审稿小组放到你草稿上跑一遍。

它干什么

你给一份草稿(.pdf / .tex / .md / arXiv 链接 / 直接粘文本),它产出一份 red-team 报告:

1. 模拟评审——一个会真·内部分歧的小组:
   • 🫶 R1 拥护者 —— 找出你真正的贡献(顺带校准"什么是真强":连 R1 都夸不出口的地方,就是真弱)。
   • 🔪 R2 方法怀疑论者 —— 你最怕的那个。专挑弱 baseline、缺失 ablation、混淆变量、樱桃挑选、过度承诺、单次跑就敢叫 SOTA。
   • 🦅 R3 / AC 新意鹰派 —— "这不就是 X+Y 吗?" 逼问相对最近工作到底新在哪。
2. AC 综合评审 —— 共识 weakness(最致命的)、分歧点、真正左右结局的 2–3 条、外加一个预测结局(Reject / Borderline / Accept)。
3. 投稿前修补清单 —— 所有 weakness 去重后,按"影响 × 成本"排序,每条告诉你:改什么、改哪、以及deadline 前到底赶不赶得上。

它真能挑出真毛病吗?(一次真实运行)

我们让它自己去 arXiv 挑了一篇真实、近期的预印本(一个推理效率 benchmark),跑了一遍。模拟出来的 R2 抓到一个教科书级的方法漏洞,并钉死了出处:

🔪 R2: 头条卖点是*"模型间 token 消耗差异巨大"*。但这篇刻意筛选了"token 用量高方差"的题目 [§3.1, §4.1]——所以这个"巨大差异"很可能是选题准则自己制造出来的。这是循环论证,需要在随机/无偏抽样上做对照。

这不是"建议多补点实验",而是*"你的结论被你的采样写进去了——看 §3.1"*——正是真·Reviewer 2 一剑封喉的地方,在投稿前几分钟就被挖出来。

(我们故意隐去论文名。这工具是帮你挑自己的稿,不是公开处刑别人的。)

两种模式

• A — 审自己的稿(红队): 投稿前 → 模拟审稿小组 + 预测结局 + 修补清单。
• B — 审别人的稿: 你被指派当审稿人、或帮导师审稿时 → 产出一份按会议官方表格式、公正、可直接提交的评审(你过目签字后交)。

基于真实标准 —— 既严谨,又公正

建立在 NeurIPS、ICLR、ACL Rolling Review 官方审稿人指南之上——用的是真实审稿人同款的评审维度和评分量表。更关键的是:每条批评都要过 ACL 官方的 H1–H17"不正当批评"黑名单——"不够新颖却不给引用""没超过 SOTA""方法太简单""作者应该再做个实验 X""有局限=有缺陷"……只要命中黑名单,工具就删掉它、或降级为温和建议。这就是严谨审稿人和键盘喷子的分水岭——Reviewer 2 该有理有据,而不是耍嘴皮子。

而且那份"必查清单"不是拍脑袋——它蒸馏自 2956 份 ICLR 2024 真实评审(OpenReview 公开数据)。数据很直白:真正毙掉论文的是 novelty 不足、定位没摆好、过度承诺;而 "没超 SOTA""你该多做点实验" 虽然天天有人喊,却几乎不影响打分。换句话说,真实数据反过来印证了那道公正性防火墙。 → 方法与数据

让它可信的那一条铁律

没有裸批评,也绝不编造毛病。

• 每条 weakness 都钉到草稿里的具体位置——[§4.2]、[表1]、["原文短引"]——或显式标 ⚠ MISSING(因为"少了个 baseline"是一条 finding,不是幻觉)。
• 某个维度上真没问题,就直说。它不会为了显得周全硬挑一条出来。一个自信却假的批评,比没有更糟。
• 它把 🔴 实质问题(方法/实验真站不住,可能要补实验)、🟡 会被误读(你其实没错,但写法把枪递给了审稿人)、🟢 打磨分开。三者修法天差地别,混为一谈正是你白白浪费 deadline 前最后一周的元凶。

为什么不直接问 ChatGPT "帮我审一下论文"?

	泛泛的"帮我审论文"	Reviewer 2
多个会互相不买账的审稿人	—	✅
每条批评都钉到你草稿的具体位置	有时	✅
无实质问题时拒绝硬编一条	—	✅
区分"真缺陷"和"会被误读"	—	✅
预测决定性因素,而非甩你一墙的鸡毛	—	✅
一张按"影响×成本"排序的修补清单	—	✅
诚实标注"这条 deadline 前赶得上吗"	—	✅

它是一套带 schema 和证据契约的结构化工作流,不是一次性 prompt。

安装

作为插件(推荐):

# 把 Claude Code 指向本仓库作为插件源,然后启用
/plugin

或手动 —— 把技能拷进你的 skills 目录:

cp -r skills/paper-redteam ~/.claude/skills/

用法

> 投稿前帮我 red-team 这份草稿:~/papers/adaprompt/main.tex

你会在 redteam/<paper-slug>.md 拿到报告:模拟评审 → AC 综合 → 优先级修补清单。

告诉它投哪,审稿会更准:

> 按 NeurIPS 标准 red-team,再加一个专盯可复现性的审稿人。

完整样例见 examples/example-redteam.md(跑在一篇虚构论文上)。

诚实的局限

• 是模拟,不是判决。 预测分数反映的是"你当前草稿会撞上哪些枪",不是真实审稿人在真实竞争里当天会怎么打。它降低被毙风险,但不承诺录用。
• 绝不编实验。 当修补建议是"补个 ablation",它只告诉你补什么、为什么,绝不替你编结果。
• 不替你改论文。 它产出诊断;改不改、怎么改,你说了算。

路线图

• v1(现在): 两种模式(审自己 / 审别人),基于 NeurIPS/ICLR/ACL 官方指南 + H1–H17 公正性防火墙。✅
• v2: Rebuttal Copilot —— 把你真正收到的评审喂进去,生成逐条、绑定到你论文、绝不乱承诺没做过的实验的回复。
• v2: venue 包(CVPR / ACL / 期刊),自动切换对应的评审重点。
• v2: "已设防草稿"diff —— 显示你改了哪些、哪些枪已经被堵上。

致谢

架构与"证据绑死 / 输出即成品"的纪律,研究自 academic-research-skills(结构化产物 / 契约模式)与 nature-skills(无证据不立论、模块化 references)。我们借鉴其模式,而非代码。姊妹技能:paper-method-bridge。

许可

MIT —— 永久免费。