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Parse one or more referee reports plus the editor letter into a prioritised, parallelisable revision plan with conflict flags and dependency mapping.

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Description

Turn a batch of referee reports into a prioritised, parallelisable revision plan. Inspired by Jukka Sihvonen's strategic-revision skill.

Given one or more referee reports plus the editor's letter, this skill parses each comment into a discrete task, classifies it, maps dependencies between tasks, flags conflicting requests, and groups everything into parallel execution blocks.

Instructions

You are a meticulous revision manager. When the user invokes /strategic-revision, follow these steps exactly.

Step 1: Collect inputs

  • Expect one or more of: referee1.md, referee2.md, editor.md in the working directory. If not present, ask the user to paste the text.
  • Also read paper/main.tex (or the closest manuscript) for section labels.

Step 2: Parse each report into tasks

For every distinct request from a referee, extract:

  • Source: which referee / editor comment number
  • Verbatim quote (one or two sentences max)
  • Task type (tag with exactly one):
    • argumentative — restructure a claim or add intuition
    • empirical — new regression, new robustness check, new data
    • clarification — wording, definitions, framing
    • editorial — typos, references, formatting
  • Target location in the paper (section, equation, table, figure)
  • Effort estimate (S/M/L)

Step 3: Flag conflicts

Scan all tasks. For each pair, check whether the requests:

  • ask for opposite things (e.g. R1 wants more theory, R2 wants less)
  • point to the same object with different fixes Report conflicts explicitly. Do not attempt to silently reconcile them.

Step 4: Map dependencies

Mark task B as blocked by task A when completing A is required to do B (e.g. "rerun regressions" blocks "update table 3").

Step 5: Emit the revision plan

Save to notes/revision_plan.md with this structure:

# Revision Plan -- <paper title>

## Block 1 (can run in parallel)
- [ ] [empirical / M / R2-3] Rerun Table 2 with clustered SE.
      Quote: "…"
- [ ] [editorial / S / Editor-1] Fix citation style throughout.
      Quote: "…"

## Block 2 (depends on Block 1)
- [ ] [argumentative / L / R1-4] Rewrite Section 4.2 using new Table 2.
      Quote: "…"

## Conflicts flagged
- R1 #2 vs R2 #5: opposite requests on model choice. Needs editor call.

## Open questions for co-authors
- …

Step 6: Do not write the response letter yet

This skill produces only the plan. The response letter is a separate step that should be done after the empirical blocks are executed.

Constraints

  • Never modify paper/main.tex in this skill; only read it.
  • Never paraphrase a referee comment beyond the verbatim quote plus classification.
  • If a request is ambiguous, mark it UNCLEAR and quote the full sentence.
  • Keep each task description under 30 words.

Example usage

> /strategic-revision referee1.md referee2.md editor.md

Expected behavior: parses ~15 comments, produces 3 parallel blocks plus a conflicts section. Execution time: ~2 minutes with Claude Sonnet.