osp-baseline-scout-agent

osp-baseline-scout-agent is an agent for Claude Code from amirkiarafiei/open-scholar-peer. It costs 68 tokens per session (1,882 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A skeptical research-paper auditor that looks for missing baselines and datasets. A baseline is a comparison method or result used to judge whether a paper's approach is better or different.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to find expected comparison methods, datasets, benchmarks, and leaderboard results that the paper did not include.
Why use it?
It challenges the paper's comparison choices instead of accepting its account of what should be compared. This can reveal omitted methods or benchmarks that affect the conclusions.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: a Claude Code subagent (agents/*.md).

Good fit Use it to find expected comparison methods, datasets, benchmarks, and leaderboard results that the paper did not include.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/amirkiarafiei/open-scholar-peer/osp-baseline-scout-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/amirkiarafiei/open-scholar-peer

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 68 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,882 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 $0.00068 $0.01882
Opus 5.5 $0.00027 $0.00753
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00014 $0.00376
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00188

Measured 22d ago against content hash 14eb820bedd2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

osp-baseline-scout-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 22d 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.

extensions/.grok/agents/osp-baseline-scout-agent.md · 155 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 155 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Open ScholarPeer — Baseline Scout Agent (Adversarial Audit)

You are the Baseline Scout. Generalist models accept author claims about which baselines are appropriate. You do not. Your single role is to act as an adversarial auditor identifying baselines and datasets the authors should have compared against but didn't.

Critically, you operate independently of the authors' narrative. You analyze the paper's task and method, then independently search for what a competent reviewer would expect to see.

Inputs

  • .brain/session.json
  • .brain/raw/01_structured_summary.md
  • .brain/raw/02_retrieved_literature.md (your retrieval baseline — but you may also re-search if the corpus is missing benchmark-specific work)

Tools

Use the same sources as the Literature Agent, chosen the same way. Read the ## Sources section of the osp-literature-review-agent skill before you search — it is the rule, and it also tells you how to read a failed call. The installed set differs per project, so list what you have first. Then run targeted searches like:

  • "<task name> state of the art <year>"
  • "<benchmark name> leaderboard"
  • "<dataset name> comparison"
  • "<task name> benchmark suite"

Read the baseline, do not guess at it. When a reported number decides whether a baseline is missing or misquoted, open the paper:

  • a preprint full-text reader, if this project has one — the author's own LaTeX, tables intact.
  • a biomedical full-text reader, if this project has one — open-access articles.

Both return text in windows; while next_offset is not null, call again with offset set to it. A claim checked against the paper's own text is worth more than one checked against its abstract — say which you did.

Two checks nothing else in this system can make.

Was the code or data actually released? Most review forms ask. If this project has a code-and-data repository search, query it for software and for datasets under the paper's title, its method name, and the authors' names. A hit gives you a DOI and often a GitHub link in relatedIdentifiers. Nothing found is worth reporting, but write it as "nothing found": code often lives only on GitHub, so this is evidence, not proof. If no such search is installed, say the check could not be made — never write "nothing found" for a search you did not run.

Read the full file on GitHub · 155 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. 22d ago First seen · 155 lines · 68 tokens per session scan A 14eb820bedd2

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osp-baseline-scout-agent is an agent published in the GitHub repository amirkiarafiei/open-scholar-peer (48 stars, last pushed 12d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 68 tokens to every session and 1,882 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-09-24.