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Review packages

A review package is the portable artifact behind a systematic review. It should let another reviewer answer:

  • What question and protocol drove the review?
  • Which sources were searched?
  • Which records were imported, merged, screened, excluded, or included?
  • Which full-text assets were legally acquired?
  • Which passages support accepted evidence?
  • Which analysis inputs, settings, warnings, and outputs produced the result?
  • Can the workflow be replayed without private local state?

Shape

Section titled “Shape”
review.rforgepkg/
  manifest.json
  checksums.sha256
  redaction-report.json
  replay.sh
  audit-report.json
  project/
    rforge.project.toml
    rforge.lock.json
    data/
    documents/
    parsed/
    analysis/
    reports/

Verify

Section titled “Verify”
Terminal window
rforge package audit ./review.rforgepkg
rforge package replay ./review.rforgepkg

Packages exclude secrets, private paths, restricted PDFs, private reviewer notes, temporary clones, and unsafe caches unless explicitly approved and shareable.