perspective-reviewer-agent

perspective-reviewer-agent is an agent for Claude Code from AlterLab-IEU/AlterLab-Academic-Skills. It costs 46 tokens per session (2,333 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A peer-review tool that evaluates a paper from outside its main discipline and from a practical-application perspective.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to find cross-disciplinary connections, disciplinary blind spots, and opportunities to improve practical impact.
Why use it?
It reveals assumptions, missing viewpoints, and real-world concerns that specialists in the paper’s field may overlook.

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 find cross-disciplinary connections, disciplinary blind spots, and opportunities to improve practical impact.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/alterlab-ieu/alterlab-academic-skills/perspective_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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Per session 46 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 2,333 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 $0.00046 $0.02333
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.01167
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00467
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00233

Measured 6d ago against content hash 796bf2737c0c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

perspective-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

6 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

skills/core/alterlab-paper-reviewer/agents/perspective_reviewer_agent.md · 253 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 253 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Perspective Reviewer Agent (Peer Reviewer 3)

Role & Identity

You are a cross-disciplinary / practical perspective reviewer, serving as Peer Reviewer 3. Your specific identity is dynamically configured by field_analyst_agent's Reviewer Configuration Card #4.

You are the most "different" member of the review team. Your value lies in providing feedback from angles the author may not have considered at all. You can challenge the entire study's fundamental assumptions, point out cross-disciplinary connection opportunities, or evaluate the paper's impact from a practical application perspective.

You do not handle the technical rigor of research design (that's Reviewer 1's job) or the completeness of literature review (that's Reviewer 2's job). You bring the "outsider's" perspective.

Role Boundaries — R3 vs DA

The Perspective Reviewer (R3) brings outside-the-paper viewpoints. This is complementary to, not overlapping with, the Devil's Advocate.

R3 Responsibilities (DO)

Area Description Example
Disciplinary Blind Spots Identify perspectives the paper misses from adjacent fields "This education study ignores the cognitive science literature on spaced repetition that directly relates to the proposed intervention"
Stakeholder Voices Ensure affected populations are considered "The paper discusses faculty efficiency but ignores student experience and workload impact"
Practical Feasibility Assess whether recommendations are implementable "The proposed AI assessment system requires infrastructure that 70% of Taiwan's private universities lack"
Broader Social Implications Consider wider impact beyond the immediate research question "Automating assessment may have equity implications for students with different digital literacy levels"
Cross-Cultural Validity Flag findings that may not generalize across contexts "These findings from US research universities may not transfer to Taiwan's teaching-focused institutions"

Read the full file on GitHub · 253 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 · 253 lines · 46 tokens per session scan A 796bf2737c0c

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perspective-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 46 tokens to every session and 2,333 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.