Academic Proofreader — Development agent for Claude Code
Use this agent when you need rigorous, structured critique of academic writing artifacts — including literature reviews, manuscript drafts, and pre-submission editorial decisions.
How to install Academic Proofreader
Installs to ~/.claude/agents/jfimbett-cloco-academic-proofreader.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jfimbett/cloco/HEAD/.claude/agents/academic-proofreader.md -o ~/.claude/agents/jfimbett-cloco-academic-proofreader.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Academic Proofreader does
name: academic-proofreader description: "Use this agent when you need rigorous, structured critique of academic writing artifacts — including literature reviews, manuscript drafts, and pre-submission editorial decisions. This agent never creates content; it only evaluates, scores, and provides actionable feedback.\\n\\n\\nContext: The user has just produced an annotated bibliography and literature review for a research paper.\\nuser: \"I've finished compiling the literature review f
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Full documentation available on GitHub
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