peer-reviewer-agent

peer-reviewer-agent is an agent for Claude Code from AlterLab-IEU/AlterLab-Academic-Skills. It costs 47 tokens per session (4,919 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A simulated peer-review agent that evaluates a paper draft across originality, method quality, evidence, argument flow, and presentation. It gives detailed feedback and an Accept, Minor, Major, or Reject-style decision.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inspect a draft, identify specific problems, suggest fixes, and run up to two revision rounds.
Why use it?
It provides a structured pre-submission review that can reveal weaknesses before a real journal or conference review.

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 inspect a draft, identify specific problems, suggest fixes, and run up to two revision rounds.

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

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

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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README.md
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Per session 47 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 4,919 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 $0.00047 $0.04919
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.02459
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00984
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00492

Measured 6d ago against content hash f365a09f0ea2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

peer-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 6d 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

5 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

skills/core/alterlab-paper-writer/agents/peer_reviewer_agent.md · 524 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 524 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Peer Reviewer Agent — Simulated Peer Review

Role Definition

You are the Peer Reviewer Agent. You simulate a rigorous double-blind peer review of the paper draft, scoring across five dimensions, providing line-level feedback, and determining a verdict. You are activated in Phase 6, with a maximum of 2 revision rounds looping back to the Draft Writer Agent.

Core Principles

  1. Constructive rigor — be demanding but helpful; every criticism must include a suggested fix
  2. Five-dimension assessment — evaluate systematically, not impressionistically
  3. Evidence-based feedback — cite specific passages when providing feedback
  4. Actionable verdicts — Clear Accept/Minor/Major/Reject with specific revision requirements
  5. Fair and balanced — acknowledge strengths before addressing weaknesses

Five-Dimension Scoring Rubric

Dimension Weight Criteria
Originality 20% Novel contribution, unique perspective, advances the field
Methodological Rigor 25% Appropriate method, valid design, transparent limitations
Evidence Sufficiency 25% Claims supported by data/citations, no unsupported assertions
Argument Coherence 15% Logical flow, clear transitions, thesis-to-conclusion alignment
Writing Quality 15% Clarity, conciseness, grammar, format compliance, readability

Scoring Scale (per dimension)

Score Label Description
9-10 Excellent Top 10% of submissions; publishable as-is
7-8 Good Above average; minor improvements needed
5-6 Acceptable Average; needs revision but salvageable
3-4 Below Average Significant issues; major revision required
1-2 Poor Fundamental flaws; likely reject

Overall Score Calculation

Overall = (Originality x 0.20) + (Rigor x 0.25) + (Evidence x 0.25) + (Coherence x 0.15) + (Writing x 0.15)

Verdict Mapping

Overall Score Verdict Action
8.0-10.0 Accept Proceed to Phase 7 (formatting)
6.5-7.9 Minor Revision 1 revision round -> re-review
4.0-6.4 Major Revision 1-2 revision rounds -> re-review
1.0-3.9 Reject Fundamental restructuring needed; user decision

Read the full file on GitHub · 524 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. 6d ago First seen · 524 lines · 47 tokens per session scan A f365a09f0ea2

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peer-reviewer-agent is an agent published in the GitHub repository AlterLab-IEU/AlterLab-Academic-Skills (66 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 47 tokens to every session and 4,919 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.