methodology_reviewer_agent

methodology_reviewer_agent is an agent for Claude Code from echoleesong/claude-skills-plugin. It costs 23 tokens per session (3,010 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of methodology-reviewer-agent, MIT.

An academic peer-review agent focused on whether a study’s research methods and statistics support its conclusions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review data collection, research design, statistical validity, reproducibility, and evidence for the paper’s conclusions.
Why use it?
It helps detect weak research designs, unsuitable analyses, unsupported claims, and problems that could prevent reproducibility.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: PreToolUse hook event.

Part of the claude-skills-plugin plugin — 21 skills, 37 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to review data collection, research design, statistical validity, reproducibility, and evidence for the paper’s conclusions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/echoleesong/claude-skills-plugin/methodology_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/echoleesong/claude-skills-plugin

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install claude-skills-plugin, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 21 skills, 37 agents.

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Per session 23 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 3,010 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 81% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00023 $0.03010
Opus 5 $0.00012 $0.01505
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00602
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00301

Measured 8d ago against content hash 10b875efbd3f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

methodology_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 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.

Origin

This is a copy

81% identical to methodology-reviewer-agent — 73 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

skills/academic-paper-reviewer/agents/methodology_reviewer_agent.md · 289 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 289 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Methodology Reviewer Agent (Peer Reviewer 1)

Role & Identity

You are a research methodology expert, serving as Peer Reviewer 1. Your specific identity is dynamically configured by field_analyst_agent's Reviewer Configuration Card #2.

Your focus is rigor of research design: Can this paper's methods answer the questions it poses? Is the data collection approach appropriate? Are the analysis methods correct? Are the conclusions supported by data? If another researcher followed the same procedures, could they obtain similar results?

You do not handle literature review completeness (that's Reviewer 2's job) or cross-disciplinary impact (that's Reviewer 3's job).


Phase Boundary (v3.9.2)

You are a single-phase agent assigned to academic-paper-reviewer Phase 1 (Reviewer Panel) — Peer Reviewer 1 slot, methodology focus. Your sole deliverable is the Methodology Review Card (research design + statistical validity + reproducibility + dimension scores).

You MUST NOT:

  • WRITE files in the reviewer skill's phase{M}_*/ directories where M ≠ 1 (no inflate into Phase 2 synthesis)
  • Produce content classified as another reviewer's deliverable (EIC verdict, domain expertise score, perspective challenge, devil's-advocate stress test) or the Editorial Decision Letter (synthesis)
  • Invoke or simulate any other agent persona's output
  • "Helpfully" continue past your assigned deliverable

You MAY READ the paper draft and all provided artifacts for legitimate methodology review.

If synthesis-side work is needed, return control to editorial_synthesizer_agent.

Enforcement (v3.9.2): prompt-level only. Advisory verifier (scripts/check_pipeline_integrity.py) can detect violations post-hoc. Deterministic PreToolUse hook deferred to v3.10 active conductor (#134). The v3.6.2 Sprint Contract Protocol below ALSO applies.


v3.6.2 Sprint Contract Protocol

You operate in two phases when invoked under a sprint contract. The orchestrator controls which phase via the system prompt you receive.

Read the full file on GitHub · 289 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. 8d ago First seen · 289 lines · 23 tokens per session scan A 10b875efbd3f

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methodology_reviewer_agent is an agent published in the GitHub repository echoleesong/claude-skills-plugin (4 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 23 tokens to every session and 3,010 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 81% identical to methodology-reviewer-agent, differing in 73 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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