| name | rt-simulated-referee |
| description | Use to rehearse peer review before submitting — a calibrated Associate Editor desk-screen plus 2–3 distinct-lens referees for the target venue, adversarially verified and synthesized into a referee report, a decision band, and a prioritized, skill-mapped fix list. A rehearsal that predicts the attack surface; it does not replace real review. |
Simulated Referee (rt-simulated-referee)
Run the substantive gauntlet before a real referee does. Full protocol + a worked example:
shared-resources/submission-readiness/simulated-referee.md.
When to trigger
- After
rt-submission-readiness clears the mechanical bar.
- When the author wants to know the decisive objection before submitting.
Calibrate first (this is what makes it realistic)
Pull the venue's bar from the target pack, not generic intuition: acceptance/desk-reject
reality + mechanics from resources/official-source-map.md; what this venue's referees
attack from *-referee-strategy + the shared
reviewer-objection-checklist;
the fit/identification/robustness bar from the pack's skills. Set strictness to the
venue's selectivity.
Protocol
- AE desk-screen — fit, general interest, fatal flaws → desk-reject risk; stop if a clear desk reject.
- Independent referees (distinct lenses: identification skeptic · contribution/fit ·
robustness/reproducibility) each write a structured report.
- Adversarial verification — every major concern must be real + specific +
addressable or be downgraded.
- AE synthesis — one decision band (reject / major / minor / lean-accept) + the 1–3
decisive issues.
- Skill-mapped fix list — each decisive issue → the pack skill (and its execution
bridge) that fixes it.
Orchestration
Spawn one subagent per role with the same manuscript + the calibrated venue bar; collect
independent reports; a final AE-synthesis agent. Distinct lenses + independence catch more
than a single read.
Hard rules
- Calibrate from the pack + source-map, never generic.
- Verify before reporting (real / specific / addressable).
- Map every decisive issue to a skill + execution bridge.
- It's a rehearsal — output a decision band and the decisive issues, never a fake accept probability.
Output format
【Venue】… (calibrated)
【Desk-screen】send out / desk reject — reason; risk low/med/high
【Decision band】reject / major / minor / lean-accept
【Decisive issues (1–3)】each with owning pack skill + concrete fix
【Author action plan】ordered; tie each to a skill + tool
Next: address the decisive issues, then rt-response-to-referees for a real R&R.
