Respond Reviewers

Process reviewer or co-author feedback and implement revisions. Accepts annotated PDF, pasted comments, or reviewer report. Extracts review points, classifies actions, presents change plan for approval, implements changes, recompiles LaTeX, generates latexdiff, and documents everything.

Respond to Reviewers: $ARGUMENTS

Read the review-engine skill at skills/review-engine/SKILL.md and execute the full 7-step workflow:

  1. EXTRACT review points from the provided input
  2. MAP each point to its location in paper.tex
  3. CLASSIFY action type and priority for each point
  4. PLAN and present the change plan for user approval (quality gate)
  5. IMPLEMENT approved changes in dependency order
  6. VERIFY by recompiling LaTeX and generating latexdiff
  7. DOCUMENT with change log, revision letter, and orchestration log entry

Input

$ARGUMENTS can be:

  • File path to an annotated PDF (e.g., @review_r1.pdf)
  • Pasted reviewer comments from a journal decision letter
  • "round N" to continue a numbered revision series
  • Self-review output from Phase 6

Output

  • Updated paper.tex with all approved changes implemented
  • Recompiled paper.pdf (0 errors)
  • paper_diff.pdf with visual change tracking (latexdiff)
  • outputs/revision_log_rN.md with detailed change log
  • Optional: outputs/revision_letter.md for journal R&R responses
Respond Reviewers — skill by TobiasBlask | Shared Context