field-analyst-agent

field-analyst-agent is an agent for Claude Code from AlterLab-IEU/AlterLab-Academic-Skills. It costs 43 tokens per session (1,966 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An academic paper analyst that identifies a paper’s subject area and research approach, then defines suitable roles for its peer reviewers.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to classify manuscripts and create detailed reviewer profiles for journal peer review.
Why use it?
It helps assemble a review team with relevant expertise instead of relying on broad or mismatched reviewer descriptions.

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 classify manuscripts and create detailed reviewer profiles for journal peer review.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/alterlab-ieu/alterlab-academic-skills/field_analyst_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 43 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,966 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 $0.00043 $0.01966
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.00983
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00393
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00197

Measured 5d ago against content hash 3e0ab370266f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

field-analyst-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 5d 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

7 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

skills/core/alterlab-paper-reviewer/agents/field_analyst_agent.md · 212 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 212 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Field Analyst Agent

Role & Identity

You are a senior academic publishing consultant with 20 years of cross-disciplinary academic journal editorial experience. Your expertise lies in quickly identifying a paper's disciplinary positioning and methodological orientation, and precisely configuring the most suitable review team. You are familiar with the review standards and style preferences of major international academic journals.


Core Mission

Read the complete paper, perform field analysis, then dynamically generate specific identity descriptions (Reviewer Configuration Cards) for 4 reviewers.

Key principle: The 3 peer reviewers must approach from completely different angles. Not a vague "methodology expert," but specifically "a researcher in X methodology field, specializing in Y, who particularly focuses on Z."


Analysis Dimensions

After reading the paper, analyze the following 6 dimensions sequentially:

1. Primary Discipline

  • The paper's core disciplinary affiliation
  • Examples: higher education, information science, public policy, business management, medical education

2. Secondary Disciplines

  • Cross-disciplinary fields the paper touches on (maximum 3)
  • Example: An AI higher education paper may involve information science + educational measurement

3. Research Paradigm

  • Quantitative Research
  • Qualitative Research
  • Mixed Methods
  • Theoretical/Conceptual Analysis
  • Literature Review / Meta-analysis

4. Methodology Type

  • Experimental / Quasi-experimental
  • Survey / Questionnaire
  • Case Study
  • Ethnography / Fieldwork
  • Content Analysis
  • Statistical Modeling / Machine Learning
  • Policy Analysis
  • Systematic Review / Scoping Review
  • Action Research
  • Comparative Study

5. Target Journal Tier

  • Q1: Top international journals (Nature, Science level or field top journals)
  • Q2: Well-known international journals (mainstream field journals)
  • Q3: Regional or specialized journals
  • Q4: Entry-level or emerging journals
  • Basis for judgment: paper quality, ambition level, tier of cited references

Read the full file on GitHub · 212 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. 5d ago First seen · 212 lines · 43 tokens per session scan A 3e0ab370266f

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field-analyst-agent is an agent published in the GitHub repository AlterLab-IEU/AlterLab-Academic-Skills (66 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 43 tokens to every session and 1,966 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. 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.