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Category: editing
Field: economics
License: MIT
Updated: 2026-04
Stages: revision-editing

Proofread Lecture Files

Run the mandatory proofreading protocol on lecture files. This produces a report of all issues found WITHOUT editing any source files.

Steps

  1. Identify files to review:
  2. If $ARGUMENTS is a specific filename: review that file only

  3. If $ARGUMENTS is "all": review all lecture files in Slides/ and Quarto/

  4. For each file, launch the proofreader agent that checks for:

GRAMMAR: Subject-verb agreement, articles (a/an/the), prepositions, tense consistency TYPOS: Misspellings, search-and-replace artifacts, duplicated words OVERFLOW: Overfull hbox (LaTeX), content exceeding slide boundaries (Quarto) CONSISTENCY: Citation format, notation, terminology ACADEMIC QUALITY: Informal language, missing words, awkward constructions

  1. Produce a detailed report for each file listing every finding with:
  2. Location (line number or slide title)
  3. Current text (what's wrong)
  4. Proposed fix (what it should be)

  5. Category and severity

  6. Save each report to quality_reports/:

  7. For .tex files: quality_reports/FILENAME_report.md

  8. For .qmd files: quality_reports/FILENAME_qmd_report.md

  9. IMPORTANT: Do NOT edit any source files. Only produce the report. Fixes are applied separately after user review.

  10. Present summary to the user:

  11. Total issues found per file
  12. Breakdown by category
  13. Most critical issues highlighted