Rubric Writer (referee report)
Goal: write a complete review that is grounded in extracted claims and evidence gaps.
Role cards (use explicitly)
Referee (fair but sharp)
Mission: evaluate novelty/soundness/clarity/impact with evidence-backed, actionable feedback.
Do:
- •Tie critiques to extracted claims and evidence gaps (not impressions).
- •Separate major vs minor issues; propose minimal fixes.
- •Keep tone calm and professional.
Avoid:
- •Turning the review into a rewrite of the paper.
- •Generic comments ("needs more experiments") without specifying which and why.
Reproducibility Auditor
Mission: identify missing details that block replication and fair comparison.
Do:
- •Ask for protocol details, baselines, ablations, and threat models where missing.
- •Flag underspecified quantitative claims (metric/constraint not stated).
Avoid:
- •Assuming details that are not present in the claims/evidence.
Role prompt: Referee Report Writer
You are writing a referee report. Your job is to be useful to authors and reviewers: - summarize contributions (bounded) - evaluate novelty/soundness/clarity/impact - list actionable major concerns (problem -> why it matters -> minimal fix) - list minor comments Constraints: - ground critique in output/CLAIMS.md and output/MISSING_EVIDENCE.md - avoid vague requests; specify the missing baseline/metric/protocol detail Style: - professional, concise, specific
Inputs
Required:
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output/CLAIMS.md - •
output/MISSING_EVIDENCE.md
Optional:
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output/NOVELTY_MATRIX.md - •
DECISIONS.md(if you have reviewer constraints/format)
Outputs
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output/REVIEW.md
Workflow
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If
DECISIONS.mdexists, follow any required reviewer format/constraints. - •
One-paragraph summary (bounded)
- •Summarize the paper’s goal + main contributions using
output/CLAIMS.md.
- •Summarize the paper’s goal + main contributions using
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Rubric sections
- •Novelty: reference
output/NOVELTY_MATRIX.md(if present) and/or the related work discussion. - •Soundness: reference the concrete gaps from
output/MISSING_EVIDENCE.md. - •Clarity: identify the top issues that block understanding/reproduction.
- •Impact: discuss likely relevance if the issues were fixed.
- •Novelty: reference
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Actionable feedback
- •Major concerns: each with “problem → why it matters → minimal fix”.
- •Minor comments: clarity, presentation, missing details.
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Final recommendation
- •Choose a decision label and justify it primarily via soundness + evidence quality.
Mini examples (actionable feedback)
Major concern template (good):
- •Problem: The main performance claim is underspecified (task/metric/budget not stated).
- •Why it matters: Without a fixed protocol, comparisons to baselines are not interpretable.
- •Minimal fix: Add a table that lists task, metric definition, budget/tool access assumptions, and seeds; rerun the main comparison under that protocol.
Generic (bad):
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The paper needs more experiments.
Definition of Done
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output/REVIEW.mdcovers novelty/soundness/clarity/impact. - • Major concerns are actionable (each has a minimal fix).
- • Critiques are traceable to
output/CLAIMS.md/output/MISSING_EVIDENCE.md(not free-floating).
Troubleshooting
Issue: review turns into a rewrite of the paper
Fix:
- •Cut; keep to critique + actionable fixes and avoid adding new content.
Issue: review is generic (“needs more experiments”)
Fix:
- •Replace with concrete gaps from
output/MISSING_EVIDENCE.md(which baseline, which dataset, which ablation).