--- name: food-pipeline description: "Master orchestrator for the whole food & nutrition research-to-publication workflow. Coordinates the specialist skills — each with its own subagent set — into one governed path: journal selection, research (food-research / food-deep-research), writing & analysis (food-paper), figures (food-figure), peer review (food-review), revision, and finalization. Use when the user wants the entire process managed end to end, or a project routed to the right skills with quality gates. Triggers: run the full paper workflow, take this from research to submission, manage the whole project, research to publication, end-to-end paper, orchestrate my paper." metadata: version: "2.2.0" verified: "2026-07" related_skills: [journal-selector, food-research, food-deep-research, food-paper, food-figure, food-review] subagents: [intake_router, quality_gate] references: - references/pipeline-state-machine.md - references/quality-gates.md - references/mode-advisor.md --- # Food-Pipeline — Master Research-to-Publication Orchestrator The top-level conductor. It does not do research, writing, or review itself — it **routes the project to the specialist skills** (each a multi-subagent system), enforces quality gates between stages, and manages the review→revise loop. Original work. ## Skills it orchestrates (each brings its own subagent team) - **`journal-selector`** — target-journal constraints (structure, limits, reference style, figure spec). - **`food-research`** — literature/evidence synthesis (quick brief / full review / **systematic** PRISMA + OHAT). Use **`food-deep-research`** instead for an open-ended, source-validated deep dive or a standalone literature review. - **`food-paper`** — whole-process manuscript system (field → questions → data/stats → figures → argument → draft → polish → self-review). - **`food-figure`** — submission-grade figures at the journal spec (invoked within `food-paper`). - **`food-review`** — multi-reviewer peer-review panel + formatting compliance. ## Own subagents - **`intake_router`** — reads the project's current state and materials, resolves the target journal, picks the entry stage, and assembles the context each downstream skill needs. - **`quality_gate`** — the checkpoint between stages: verifies the stage's deliverable meets the gate criteria (integrity, journal compliance, evidence sufficiency) and decides proceed / revise / stop, with the author at mandatory gates. ## Stages | Stage | Skill / agent | Deliverable | Gate | |---|---|---|---| | 0 · ROUTE | `intake_router` + `journal-selector` | Entry point + journal constraints | — | | 1 · RESEARCH | `food-research` (or `food-deep-research`) | Evidence brief / gap list / (systematic report) | evidence sufficiency | | 2 · WRITE | `food-paper` | Draft: analysis, figures (`food-figure`), argument, references | integrity + journal compliance | | 3 · REVIEW | `food-review` | **Review & Response Report (`.docx`)** — feedback + editorial decision — plus **margin comments** on the manuscript (when Word tooling available) | **mandatory** author decision | | 4 · REVISE | `food-paper` (revise) | Revision + response entries — **tracked changes on the original Word only if the author authorizes** | issues resolved | | 5 · RE-REVIEW | `food-review` (re-review) | **Only if the author authorizes a second round** — verifies the revision; may add new comments | accept / stop (no auto third round) | | 6 · FINALIZE | `food-paper` (format-convert) + `writer` | Submission-ready manuscript (`.docx`) + the one **Review & Response Report** (`.docx`) | final compliance | ## Knowledge reuse — don't research the same field twice When the pipeline **ran Stage 1** (it entered at Stage 0 or 1), the field has already been searched and synthesized. Stages **3 · REVIEW** and **5 · RE-REVIEW** must therefore **carry the Stage-1 evidence base into `food-review`** rather than let its `knowledge_builder` repeat a full literature search: - **Pass forward** the Stage-1 output (`food-research` / `food-deep-research`: validated sources, evidence matrix / synthesis, grading, gap list) as the review's field-knowledge foundation; don't re-fetch what Stage 1 already validated. - **Top it up** with the **`food-research` `quick brief`** stream to find the field's **key review publications** and **read those reviews in full** (state of the art, consensus vs contested, standard methods, benchmark ranges). - **Knowledge base = Stage-1 knowledge + key-review knowledge.** The manuscript's own cited sources are still read and audited (Pathway A), reusing Stage-1 records where the source was already retrieved. **If Stage 1 did not run** (entry at Stage 2/3 with a finished draft), there is nothing to inherit — `food-review` builds its knowledge base the full way (Pathway A + B). Using **`food-review` standalone is unaffected** by this rule. See `food-review/agents/knowledge_builder.md`. ## Review & revision defaults (Stage 3 onward) — explicit authorization **Default: one review→revise round**, then FINALIZE. Do **not** auto-run a second round or silently rewrite the author's original Word file. Ask once (consolidate) before Stage 4 when a `.docx` (or equivalent) is in play: 1. **Second review round?** Default **no**. Run Stage 5 (RE-REVIEW) only if the author explicitly authorizes it. Hard cap remains **2** rounds total. 2. **Edit the original Word with Tracked Changes?** Default **no**. Only modify the original manuscript in place when the author explicitly authorizes it. Without that authorization: deliver a **revised copy** (or a change log / marked draft) plus the Review & Response Report — leave the original file untouched. ## Deliverables — exactly two files, both Word (`.docx`) The pipeline produces **one manuscript** and **one report**. Never a separate review report *and* a response letter; never Markdown. 1. **One manuscript file** (`.docx`). Revisions are Tracked Changes on that single original Word file when authorized (otherwise a revised copy); `food-review` adds margin **comments** to that same file each round, and every **Editor query** item gets a comment/note at its location. 2. **One `Review_and_Response_Report__.docx`** — the **same document evolving through the stages**, in the canonical **`food-review/references/report-format.md`** structure (Parts A/B/C; stable issue IDs; precise locations; colour legend): - **Stage 3 (REVIEW)** — `food-review` writes the reviewer feedback (black): every concern with its ID and location, plus the editorial decision. - **Stage 4 (REVISE)** — `food-paper` **updates that same file in place**, filling each item's `Response ()` (blue) = Tracked edit · Editor query · Recommendation · Residual, with what was actually done and where. - **Stage 5 (RE-REVIEW)**, if authorized — append `R2-*` items to the same file. The result carries **both the reviewer feedback and the editing response** in one document, labelled by round. **Do not create a separate reviewer report, and do not create a standalone response letter** — this report *is* the response. (A point-by-point letter to a journal's editor is only produced by `food-paper` revise **standalone**, responding to real reviewers.) Markdown is a working format only: convert with Pandoc (`pandoc report.md -o report.docx`) or the **`docx` skill**, and never claim a `.docx` you did not produce. Run `scripts/privacy_scan.py` on every file before delivery. See `food-review/references/report-format.md`, `food-review/references/word-review-comments.md`, and `food-paper/references/revision-response.md`. ## Workflow ```mermaid flowchart TD A[Project in] --> R[intake_router
state + materials + journal + entry stage] R --> J[journal-selector] R --> S1[Stage 1 RESEARCH
food-research / food-deep-research] S1 --> G1{quality_gate
evidence sufficient?} G1 -- yes --> S2[Stage 2 WRITE
food-paper -> food-figure] G1 -- no --> S1 S2 --> G2{quality_gate
integrity + journal compliance} G2 -- pass --> S3[Stage 3 REVIEW
food-review panel] G2 -- fail --> S2 S3 --> G3{{author decision
mandatory gate}} G3 -- revise --> S4[Stage 4 REVISE
food-paper revise] S4 --> G4{{author: second round?}} G4 -- no / default --> S6[Stage 6 FINALIZE
format + Word export] G4 -- yes authorized --> S5[Stage 5 RE-REVIEW
food-review re-review] S5 -- issues + author continues --> S4 S5 -- accept --> S6 G3 -- accept --> S6 S6 --> OUT[Submission-ready manuscript] ``` ## Entry points (mid-pipeline) `intake_router` detects where to start: a topic/dataset → Stage 1; a full draft → Stage 2 or 3; reviewer comments in hand → Stage 4. It never restarts completed stages unnecessarily. At Stage 3/4 it records whether the author has authorized a second round and/or in-place tracked changes on the original Word file. ## References (load as needed) - `references/mode-advisor.md` — `intake_router` uses it to pick entry stage, research flavor, and skills. - `references/pipeline-state-machine.md` — states, transitions, entry points, loop caps. - `references/quality-gates.md` — the per-stage gate criteria `quality_gate` applies. ## Rules - **Journal first, journal throughout:** re-flow references and re-check limits whenever the target journal changes. - **Gates are real:** `quality_gate` can send a stage back; integrity and review gates cannot be skipped, and the review decision is always the author's. - **One round by default:** do not auto-run RE-REVIEW; a second round needs explicit author authorization (hard cap 2). - **Original Word is opt-in:** do not apply tracked changes to the author's original file unless they authorize it; otherwise leave the original untouched and deliver a revised copy / change log + the Review & Response Report. - **Food-science standards everywhere:** n and error type, validated methods, panel details, ethics/food-safety — enforced at every write/review gate. - **Don't duplicate work:** the specialist skills own their subagents; the pipeline sequences and gates them, it does not re-implement them. - **Two deliverables, both `.docx`, always:** one manuscript and **one Review & Response Report** carrying reviewer feedback *and* the editing response. Never a separate reviewer report or a standalone response letter; never Markdown (see "Deliverables").