$npx -y skills add yha9806/academic-writing-toolkit --skill evidence-reviewBuild evidence-controlled literature reviews and gap maps with source-status labels, claim registers, citation-role plans, traceability tables, and overclaim audits. Use when drafting or auditing review papers, thesis literature reviews, scoping reviews, or evidence syntheses whe
| 1 | # /evidence-review - Evidence-Controlled Review Skill |
| 2 | |
| 3 | ## Purpose |
| 4 | |
| 5 | Create literature-review and review-paper workflows that are traceable from evidence to claim. This skill extends the toolkit's read-note-map-integrate pipeline with stricter evidence-status control, gap mapping, citation-role planning, paragraph-level claim traceability, and overclaim auditing. |
| 6 | |
| 7 | ## Trigger Words |
| 8 | |
| 9 | This skill activates on: `evidence review`, `gap review`, `gap map`, `claim traceability`, `overclaim audit`, `review paper`, `scoping review`, `systematic narrative review`, `/evidence-review`. |
| 10 | |
| 11 | ## Core Rules |
| 12 | |
| 13 | 1. Keep the central review scope explicit. |
| 14 | 2. Separate direct evidence, background evidence, methodological support, workflow/governance support, candidate-only records, unpublished work, and in-progress work. |
| 15 | 3. Do not fabricate references, DOI, PMID, sample size, venue, abstracts, results, or claims. |
| 16 | 4. Do not treat candidate-only, metadata-only, abstract-only, generated-stub, or manual-review records as full-text evidence. |
| 17 | 5. Do not treat adjacent-domain evidence as direct validation of the target domain. |
| 18 | 6. Preserve uncertainty and boundary language. |
| 19 | 7. Use the project's citation style or placeholder convention. If the project uses review placeholders, preserve `[CITE: CitationKey]`. |
| 20 | 8. Draft section by section. Do not assemble a final chapter or paper until section-level controls are clean. |
| 21 | |
| 22 | ## Workflow |
| 23 | |
| 24 | ### 1. Scope And Boundary Setup |
| 25 | |
| 26 | Create a short scope statement with: |
| 27 | |
| 28 | - central review question |
| 29 | - direct evidence domain |
| 30 | - adjacent background domains |
| 31 | - methodological support domains |
| 32 | - excluded topics |
| 33 | - key overclaim risks |
| 34 | |
| 35 | ### 2. Evidence Inventory |
| 36 | |
| 37 | Inspect existing project files before drafting. Common locations include: |
| 38 | |
| 39 | - `literature/reading_notes/` |
| 40 | - `summaries/` |
| 41 | - `evidence/` |
| 42 | - `outputs/references_master.csv` |
| 43 | - `outputs/search_log.md` |
| 44 | |
| 45 | Classify each source using `references/evidence_status_schema.md`. |
| 46 | |
| 47 | ### 3. Gap Map |
| 48 | |
| 49 | Create or update: |
| 50 | |
| 51 | - `evidence/evidence_matrix.csv` |
| 52 | - `evidence/claim_register.csv` |
| 53 | - `evidence/citation_plan.csv` |
| 54 | - `evidence/remaining_gap_notes.csv` |
| 55 | - `evidence/overclaim_risk_register.csv` |
| 56 | |
| 57 | Map each source to what it can legitimately support. If direct evidence is sparse, state that as a gap instead of filling the gap with background literature. |
| 58 | |
| 59 | ### 4. Section Drafting |
| 60 | |
| 61 | For each section: |
| 62 | |
| 63 | 1. Create an input-check report. |
| 64 | 2. Draft first-pass prose. |
| 65 | 3. Create paragraph-level claim traceability. |
| 66 | 4. Create citation usage audit. |
| 67 | 5. Create overclaim audit. |
| 68 | 6. Create revision notes. |
| 69 | 7. Revise into second-pass prose only after controls are clean. |
| 70 | |
| 71 | ### 5. Assembly Readiness |
| 72 | |
| 73 | Before merging sections: |
| 74 | |
| 75 | - check every section has compatible draft maturity |
| 76 | - check traceability and audit files exist |
| 77 | - check CSV files import cleanly |
| 78 | - audit cross-section flow |
| 79 | - audit repetition and boundary-language duplication |
| 80 | - audit integrated citation consistency |
| 81 | - audit integrated overclaim risks |
| 82 | |
| 83 | ### 6. Export Or Sharing |
| 84 | |
| 85 | Use `/export` only after the review has passed assembly and overclaim checks. Export is packaging, not revision. |
| 86 | |
| 87 | ## Reading Notes Bridge |
| 88 | |
| 89 | When the review starts from source reading, use the template in `references/reading_notes_template.md`. Every source note should record: |
| 90 | |
| 91 | - citation key or provisional source ID |
| 92 | - source provenance |
| 93 | - evidence status |
| 94 | - relevance |
| 95 | - key arguments |
| 96 | - detailed notes |
| 97 | - review connections |
| 98 | - claim candidates |
| 99 | - limitations and boundary cautions |
| 100 | - follow-up questions |
| 101 | |
| 102 | ## Output Templates |
| 103 | |
| 104 | Use `references/review_workflow_templates.md` for recommended CSV columns and report structures. |
| 105 | |
| 106 | Minimum section controls: |
| 107 | |
| 108 | - `reports/<section>_input_check.md` |
| 109 | - `docs/<section>_first_pass_draft.md` or `chapters/<section>_first_pass_draft.md` |
| 110 | - `evidence/<section>_claim_traceability.csv` |
| 111 | - `evidence/<section>_citation_usage_audit.csv` |
| 112 | - `reports/<section>_overclaim_audit.md` |
| 113 | - `reports/<section>_revision_notes.md` |
| 114 | |
| 115 | ## Optional Package Check |
| 116 | |
| 117 | If Python is available, run: |
| 118 | |
| 119 | ```bash |
| 120 | python {skill_dir}/scripts/check_review_package.py <project_root> |
| 121 | ``` |
| 122 | |
| 123 | This checks common directories, common evidence-control files, and CSV readability. It does not judge scientific validity. |
| 124 | |
| 125 | ## Stop Conditions |
| 126 | |
| 127 | Stop and report a blocker if: |
| 128 | |
| 129 | - the user prohibits searching but the requested claim requires new evidence |
| 130 | - only candidate or abstract evidence exists for a central claim |
| 131 | - a clinical, causal, deployment, or outcome claim lacks direct evidence |
| 132 | - unpublished or in-progress work cannot be separated from published literature |
| 133 | - c |