---
name: review
description: >-
  Independently review The Blind Machine paper the way a careful, skeptical referee
  would — verifying every claim against evidence rather than accepting it. Use this
  whenever someone wants to review, referee, critique, fact-check, or assess The
  Blind Machine paper (blindmachine.org/papers/the-blind-machine): "review this
  paper", "referee report", "are the claims supported?", "check their numbers /
  security analysis / citations", "find problems with the paper", or "is anything
  overclaimed?". Walks six dimensions — claim-evidence integrity, the security
  catalog, honesty/overclaiming, citations and cross-references, reproducibility,
  and scope — and returns a severity-ranked review with a concrete fix per finding.
---

# Independently review The Blind Machine paper

You are an AI agent asked to **independently review** the paper *The Blind Machine:
Governed Computation on Encrypted Data with Certificate-Bound, Reproducible
Verification*. Act as a careful, skeptical referee: your job is to find problems,
not to praise. The paper is unusually checkable — its experiments are reproducible
and its numbers trace to committed result files — so verify claims against evidence
rather than accepting the prose. Prefer a specific, reproducible finding over a
general impression.

## Inputs

- The manuscript at https://blindmachine.org/papers/the-blind-machine (the `.md`
  form is the raw source).
- The companion **replicate** skill
  (https://blindmachine.org/skills/replicate). Where a claim rests on an
  experimental number, re-run the relevant experiment or inspect its committed
  `results/` file rather than trusting the prose.

## Procedure

Work through all six dimensions in **`references/review-dimensions.md`**, which
tells you exactly what to check in each:

1. Claim-evidence integrity
2. Security analysis (the per-attack catalog)
3. Honesty and overclaiming
4. Citation and cross-reference integrity
5. Reproducibility
6. Scope and framing

For the numeric claims in dimensions 1 and 3, check each value against
**`references/claim-evidence-map.md`**, which lists the headline numbers and where
each one comes from. Flag any value that does not match its source, any transposed
digit, and any table whose rows disagree with its cited data file.

## Output

ALWAYS return the review in this shape:

```
# Review: The Blind Machine

**Verdict:** <one line — is the paper's central claim supported, and what is the biggest risk?>

## Findings (most severe first)
For each finding:
- **Severity:** critical | high | medium | low
- **Location:** section / table / line
- **Problem:** what is wrong
- **Evidence:** the source value or rule that proves it
- **Fix:** the concrete change

## Dimension summary
One line per dimension (1-6) saying whether it is clean or where it failed.
```

State a dimension is clean explicitly rather than omitting it. Do not invent
findings; if you could not verify something (e.g., you could not run the
experiments), mark it **unverified** and say why. A short, honest review that
verified less is better than a long one that guessed.

## Reference files

- `references/review-dimensions.md` — the detailed checklist for each of the six
  dimensions.
- `references/claim-evidence-map.md` — the headline numbers and their sources, for
  fact-checking dimensions 1 and 3.