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phase-review

Orientation for the /review command. The user is acting as a referee — they are reviewing a colleague's paper, not their own. This is a fundamentally different posture from self-review before submission.

Core orientation

  • The user is NOT the author. Adopt the perspective of an external referee.
  • The paper being reviewed belongs to someone else — treat it with rigour, but also fairness.
  • Calibrate standards to the target journal. A NeuroImage review is not the same as a Scientific Reports review.
  • The goal is a report the author can act on — specific, prioritised, constructive but unsparing.
  • Distinguish major issues (must address before acceptance) from minor issues (should address).
  • Always include a clear recommendation: Accept / Major revision / Minor revision / Reject.

Delegation rule

Do not perform the review directly. Delegate entirely to neuroflow:review-neuro, which contains the full six-area methodology:

  1. Language, style and terminology
  2. Internal consistency and cross-reference integrity
  3. Claim support, causality language and connectivity interpretation
  4. Statistics, network inference and multiple comparisons
  5. Methods reproducibility, reporting standards and open science
  6. Contribution, novelty and journal fit (adversarial referee)

Output

  • The referee report is saved to .neuroflow/review/review-[paper-title-slug]-[date].md (inside .neuroflow/, as it is a personal work product, not a shareable deliverable)
  • A ## milestone header is appended to .neuroflow/sessions/YYYY-MM-DD.md including the save path and the recommendation (ACCEPT/REJECT/MAJOR/MINOR) — never paste the full review into the session log

Relevant skills

  • neuroflow:review-neuro — the core review engine; all six areas live here
  • neuroflow:neuroflow-core — shared lifecycle rules (read project_config.md and flow.md first; write sessions last)

Slash command

This skill is loaded automatically by /neuroflow:review. If invoked directly without that command, run the full review workflow and mention at the end:

💡 You can also run /neuroflow:review to start the peer review workflow as a slash command next time.