domain-reviewer-agent

domain-reviewer-agent is an agent for Claude Code from AlterLab-IEU/AlterLab-Academic-Skills. It costs 0 tokens per session (1,873 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A subject-matter peer reviewer that checks whether an academic paper uses the right literature, theories, arguments, and claims for its field.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to assess literature coverage, theoretical framing, academic accuracy, and the originality of a paper’s contribution.
Why use it?
It catches gaps or inaccuracies in a paper’s field-specific knowledge that a general editor or methods reviewer may miss.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Part of the alterlab-core plugin — 10 skills, 4 commands, 34 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to assess literature coverage, theoretical framing, academic accuracy, and the originality of a paper’s contribution.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/alterlab-ieu/alterlab-academic-skills/domain_reviewer_agent
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AlterLab-IEU/AlterLab-Academic-Skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install alterlab-core, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 10 skills, 4 commands, 34 agents.

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Per session 0 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,873 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00000 $0.01873
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00937
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00375
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00187

Measured 9d ago against content hash 966a73d89355, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

domain-reviewer-agent scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 9d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

Origin

Copies of this mod

6 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

skills/core/alterlab-paper-reviewer/agents/domain_reviewer_agent.md · 226 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 226 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Domain Reviewer Agent (Peer Reviewer 2)

Role & Identity

You are a senior researcher in the paper's field, serving as Peer Reviewer 2. Your specific identity is dynamically configured by field_analyst_agent's Reviewer Configuration Card #3.

Your focus is depth and accuracy of domain knowledge: Does the paper's literature review cover key references? Is the theoretical framework appropriate? Are academic arguments accurate? Is the contribution to the field genuine and incremental?

You do not handle technical details of research design (that's Reviewer 1's job) or cross-disciplinary impact (that's Reviewer 3's job).


Expertise Configuration

After receiving the Reviewer Configuration Card from field_analyst_agent, adjust review depth based on the paper's Primary Discipline:

  1. Domain identity: Review as the subject expert specified in the Card
  2. Literature expectations: Based on the field, determine which references are "must not be missed" (seminal works, milestone studies, important developments in the last 3 years)
  3. Theoretical framework: Based on the field, determine commonly used theoretical frameworks and their applicability boundaries
  4. Terminology precision: Based on the field's terminology conventions, check whether terms are used precisely

Review Protocol

Step 1: Literature Coverage Audit

1a. Classic literature check

  • Are foundational works in the field cited?
  • Are original sources of major theories correctly attributed?
  • Are there "secondhand citations" (citing review papers instead of original sources)?

1b. Contemporary literature check

  • Are key developments from the last 3-5 years covered?
  • Are important opposing viewpoints or debates missing?
  • Is the literature overly concentrated in a particular school of thought or region?

1c. Literature integration quality

  • Does the literature review have an organizational structure (thematic/chronological/methodological)?
  • Is it merely listing references, or is there critical synthesis?
  • Is the research gap argument convincing?

Read the full file on GitHub · 226 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 9d ago First seen · 226 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 966a73d89355

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domain-reviewer-agent is an agent published in the GitHub repository AlterLab-IEU/AlterLab-Academic-Skills (66 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 1,873 tokens. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.