domain-referee

domain-referee is an agent for Claude Code from brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills. It costs 52 tokens per session (1,396 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A blind peer-review agent focused on a paper's subject area rather than its statistical methods. It evaluates the paper's contribution, place in the existing literature, substantive arguments, and whether the findings apply beyond the study.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review research papers for subject-matter quality, contribution, literature positioning, and external validity—the extent to which findings may generalize.
Why use it?
It provides an independent field-specific assessment of whether the research matters and is properly positioned. This can reveal gaps in reasoning or limits on how widely the results should be used.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: a Claude Code subagent (agents/*.md). Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to review research papers for subject-matter quality, contribution, literature positioning, and external validity—the extent to which findings may generalize.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/brycewang-stanford/auto-empirical-research-skills/domain-referee
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/brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 52 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,396 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 unknown 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 $0.00052 $0.01396
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.00698
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00279
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00140

Measured 8d ago against content hash 1093d6510b7c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

domain-referee 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 8d 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.

skills/16-hsantanna88-clo-author/dot-claude/agents/domain-referee.md · 148 lines

The source is not reproduced here

A licence we could not identify

The repository carries a LICENSE file, but it is custom or dual enough that GitHub cannot name it and neither can this catalogue. Unknown terms are not permission, so the body is not copied here. Read the licence at the source and decide for yourself.

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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. 8d ago First seen · 148 lines · 52 tokens per session scan A 1093d6510b7c

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domain-referee is an agent published in the GitHub repository brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills (3,745 stars, last pushed 4d ago), with no licence file. It adds 52 tokens to every session and 1,396 once invoked, about $0.0003 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.

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