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coarse: AI referee report

By David Van Dijcke · as credited by the source

An open-source multi-agent system that reviews an academic paper like a referee and writes a report with overall feedback and detailed comments that quote the paper.

PlannedThird-party template: coarse runs today with its own command; calling it from an E2ER run is plannedreview
Third-party template. Made and maintained by David Van Dijcke, outside E2ER. Source on GitHub · coarse.ink · MIT licence · version 1.9.4. It shows how a service built elsewhere joins E2ER: described in the same format, credited to its authors, and called as a step of a run.
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Input
A paper as PDF, LaTeX, Markdown, DOCX, HTML or EPUB
Output
paper_review.md: overall feedback (4 to 6 issues) and 20 or more detailed comments

Description

Data model
Discipline
General
Method family
Review
Design
not specified
Research stage
Review
Contributors
David Van Dijcke
Usage
not used in published research yet
Source
GitHub (third-party) · Davidvandijcke/coarse
Record
template:coarse-review · JSON

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Steps

  1. 1
    run coarse
    uvx coarse-ink review paper.pdf, with an OpenRouter key. For .tex or .md files, coarse-review runs on a local claude, codex or gemini command-line subscription instead.
    external
  2. 2
    keep the report
    The report is stored with the study and hashed like every other file. Being model output, it will differ between runs.
    check

Versions and evaluations

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Cite this template
Persistent identifiers planned 
@software{e2ercontributors2026e2ercoarseairefereerepor,
  title   = {E2ER coarse: ai referee report template},
  author  = {E2ER contributors},
  year    = {2026},
  note    = {E2ER template. Persistent identifier planned},
  url     = {https://e2er.org/templates/coarse-review}
}

Connectors this template can use

What a run of this template can reach outside your machine, and what each sends out.

coarse referee reportplannedLeaves your machine: The paper's text

Checks on this template

  • ✓Output contracts · Every step produced the artifact it declared, in the declared form
    Required of every template.
  • ✓Execution reliability · Analysis code ran and wrote a parseable, non-empty result
    Required of every template.
  • –Numbers · Every number in tables and text matches the output of executed code
    Not applicable. This method produces no computed numbers to match.
  • ○Citations · Every reference resolves to an existing publication via OpenAlex, Semantic Scholar or Crossref
    Proposed. Proposed for the floor; runs log it but may not block on it.
  • ○Verbatim passages · Every claim about a source points to a passage found word for word in that source
    Proposed. Proposed for the floor; runs log it but may not block on it.

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