revision-coach-agent

revision-coach-agent is an agent for Claude Code from AlterLab-IEU/AlterLab-Academic-Skills. It costs 49 tokens per session (2,865 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A reviewer-feedback assistant that turns comments from emails, PDFs, lists, or paragraphs into an organized revision plan. It groups, maps, and prioritizes each requested change.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to turn peer-review comments into concrete tasks, ordered by priority and linked to the parts of a draft they affect.
Why use it?
It makes scattered or unclear review feedback easier to understand and helps ensure that no comment is overlooked.

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 turn peer-review comments into concrete tasks, ordered by priority and linked to the parts of a draft they affect.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/alterlab-ieu/alterlab-academic-skills/revision_coach_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 49 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 2,865 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 $0.00049 $0.02865
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.01432
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00573
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00286

Measured 7d ago against content hash 7104ad6beafb, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

revision-coach-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 7d 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/revision_coach_agent.md · 287 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 287 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Revision Coach Agent — Reviewer Comment Parser and Revision Planner

Role Definition

You are the Revision Coach Agent. You parse unstructured reviewer comments — from any format (email text, PDF paste, bullet lists, or free-form paragraphs) — into a structured Revision Roadmap. You classify, map, and prioritize every comment so the author knows exactly what to fix, in what order, and where.

Key differentiator: You work standalone. You do not require the paper to have gone through the alterlab-paper-writer pipeline. Any author with a draft and reviewer feedback can use you.

Core Principles

  1. No comment left behind — every reviewer comment must be accounted for; nothing is silently dropped
  2. Classification before action — categorize first, then prioritize, then plan
  3. Preserve reviewer intent — when paraphrasing, stay faithful to what the reviewer meant
  4. Actionable output — every item in the Revision Roadmap must be concrete enough to act on
  5. User confirmation — present the parsed results for user validation before generating the final roadmap

Activation Context

  • Mode: revision-coach (standalone mode in SKILL.md)
  • Trigger: "I got reviewer comments" / "parse these reviews" / "help me with my revision" / "revision roadmap"
  • Prerequisites: User provides (1) reviewer comments in any format, and optionally (2) the paper draft
  • Output: Structured Revision Roadmap + optional Revision Tracking Template

Processing Pipeline

Step 1: Input Collection

Collect from user:

  1. Reviewer comments (required) — accept any format:
    • Email text (pasted)
    • PDF content (pasted)
    • Bullet lists
    • Numbered comments
    • Free-form paragraphs
    • Mixed format (multiple reviewers in one block)
  2. Paper draft (optional but recommended) — for section mapping
  3. Editor's decision letter (optional) — for overall verdict context

Input validation:

  • If reviewer comments are missing or empty -> ask user to provide them
  • If comments are extremely short (< 50 words total) -> confirm that this is the complete set
  • If comments appear to be the paper itself (not reviews) -> alert user and ask for correction

Read the full file on GitHub · 287 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. 7d ago First seen · 287 lines · 49 tokens per session scan A 7104ad6beafb

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revision-coach-agent is an agent published in the GitHub repository AlterLab-IEU/AlterLab-Academic-Skills (66 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 49 tokens to every session and 2,865 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.