About review-overleaf
review-overleaf is a skill for processing unresolved Overleaf review threads in a local repository. It guides an agent to find matching TeX text, propose and apply edits for user review, while leaving thread resolution and syncing to the Overleaf web UI.
Key features
- 01Resolve projects by ID, URL, or name
- 02Fetch unresolved review threads
- 03Match snippets to local TeX files
- 04Propose and apply edits one thread at a time
- 05Show changes and unmatched comments
Use cases
- 01Apply reviewer feedback to a local paper
- 02Find comments that could not be mapped to source text
- 03Review changes before committing
Install
Copy the command and run it in a terminal.
npx skills add https:/ / github.com/ fcakyon/ claude-codex-settings --skill review-overleafAfter installing, type/review-overleafin Claude Code to confirm it loaded.
Details
From the project READMEReview Overleaf
Pull unresolved review threads from an Overleaf project, locate each in the local repo, propose edits the user reviews, and apply them. Does not push back to Overleaf — the web UI is still the place to mark threads resolved after the user verifies the local change.
Step 1: Resolve project ID
Accept any of:
- Raw 24-char hex ID (
^[0-9a-f]{24}$) - Full URL like
https://www.overleaf.com/project/<id>— extract via regex - Project name in quotes — call:
Each line ispython3 ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/overleaf_reviews.py --list-projects<24-hex> <accessLevel> <name>. Fuzzy-match the name. If multiple match, AskUserQuestion to disambiguate.
If the user has not given a project ID at all, run --list-projects and show the user the table so they can pick one.
Step 2: Cookie precheck
If ~/.claude/overleaf-skills/cookie does not exist, tell the user to "set up overleaf" (which triggers the setup skill) and stop.
If it exists but auth fails (the next script call returns a refresh hint), point at the same setup skill and stop.
Step 3: Access-level guard
If the project ID came from name resolution, check the matched entry's accessLevel. If readOnly, warn:
Project is read-only. You can edit local files but cannot sync them back to Overleaf via the web UI; you would need to copy-paste manually. Continue?
For owner, readAndWrite, or review, proceed silently.
Step 4: Fetch comments
python3 ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/overleaf_reviews.py --json --repo . < project-id > --unresolved-only
Parses to a JSON array. Each record has: thread_id, doc_id, snippet, offset, resolved, messages (list of {user, ts, content}), file, line. The file and line are null when the snippet did not match any local *.tex.
Step 5: Edit loop
For each record where file is non-null:
Readthe file atline± 5 lines for context.- Summarize the comment thread in one sentence: who said what.
- Propose a concrete edit grounded in the comment text. If the comment is a question (e.g., "did you mean X?"), the edit should answer it in the prose; if it's a correction (e.g., "wrong notation"), the edit should make the correction.
- Apply via
Edit. Do not batch — one comment, one edit, then move on.
Skip records where file is null (snippet did not map). Collect them in an <unmapped> list.
Step 6: Wrap up
After the loop:
- Run
git diffand show the user the full set of changes. - List the
<unmapped>records (if any) withdoc_id+ snippet preview, so the user can hunt them manually. - Suggest a commit message in the style:
address overleaf review: <one-line summary of the changes>. Do NOT auto-commit. The user can run/github-dev:commit-stagedor commit by hand. - Remind the user to mark the addressed threads as resolved in the Overleaf web UI once they verify the local diff.
Non-goals
- No re-upload to Overleaf (no write API used).
- No thread resolution in Overleaf (web UI only).
- No
.bibedits unless a comment specifically targets a citation. - No multi-line snippets that span paragraph breaks — those land in
<unmapped>for v1; the snippet matcher is line-anchored.
Pairs naturally with
github-dev—/github-dev:commit-stagedafter the edit loop,/github-dev:create-prif the project is collaborative.