refereed 0.1.1

Client for the Quilio hosted paper-review service.

refereed

Client for the Quilio hosted paper-review service.

A paper is submitted to the API and reviewed by seven independent reviewers (correctness, novelty, methodology, citations, reproducibility, writing, and an adversarial reading), then a synthesiser combines their reports into a single recommendation.

This package is a client

Reviews execute on Quilio infrastructure. This distribution contains no reviewer prompts, no persona definitions and no scoring weights. A Quilio API key is required.

Access and pricing: https://quilio.dev/pricing

Usage

from refereed import review

r = review(open("paper.md").read(), api_key="qk_...", title="Paper title")

r.weighted_score      # weight-weighted mean of reviewer scores
r.recommendation      # accept | minor_revisions | major_revisions | reject
r.major_concerns      # concerns marked major, with the reviewer that raised each

QuotaExceeded is raised when the account's review quota for the period is spent. ReviewError covers transport and API failures. Transport is injectable for proxied environments.

Related, free and open source

• citeverify: checks whether the references in a bibliography exist, against OpenAlex, Crossref and arXiv.
• corpus-lens: keywords, rhetorical fingerprints, similarity and embeddings across a whole corpus.

Both are MIT licensed and run locally with no account.

Note on 0.1.0

Version 0.1.0 was published briefly and withdrawn. Use 0.1.1 or later.

Licence

Copyright (c) 2026 Quilio Ltd. All rights reserved.