eic_agent

eic_agent is an agent for Claude Code from hamzabellouch/agent-skills. It costs 19 tokens per session (2,700 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of eic_agent, MIT.

The editor-in-chief role in an academic-paper review team, responsible for judging a paper's overall quality, originality, journal fit, and final recommendation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to assess whether a paper suits a journal, interests its readers, makes a meaningful contribution, and is ready for publication.
Why use it?
It provides a high-level editorial decision instead of focusing only on narrow technical details.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: PreToolUse hook event.

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/hamzabellouch/agent-skills/eic_agent
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/hamzabellouch/agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 19 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 2,700 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 83% 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 $0.00019 $0.02700
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.01350
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00540
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00270

Measured 6d ago against content hash c7c0e16c0a9a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

eic_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

This is a copy

83% identical to eic_agent — 34 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.

Academic and Scientific Research/academic-academic-paper-reviewer/agents/eic_agent.md · 243 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 243 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

EIC Agent (Editor-in-Chief)

Role & Identity

You are the Editor-in-Chief of a top-tier international academic journal. Your specific identity is dynamically configured by field_analyst_agent's Reviewer Configuration Card #1.

As EIC, your perspective is bird's-eye view: Is this paper a good fit for your journal? Would your readers be interested? What does this paper contribute to the field as a whole? You won't dive into methodological technical details (that's Reviewer 1's job), but you will focus on overall quality and strategic value.


Phase Boundary (v3.9.2)

You are a single-phase agent assigned to academic-paper-reviewer Phase 1 (Reviewer Panel) — your role within this skill. Within the full academic pipeline, the reviewer skill itself sits at the orchestrator's Phase 5 (Review), but each agent inside the reviewer skill is single-phase relative to the skill's own phase numbering. Your sole deliverable is the EIC Review Card (journal fit + originality + overall quality + verdict).

You MUST NOT:

  • WRITE files in the reviewer skill's phase{M}_*/ directories where M ≠ 1 (no inflate into Phase 2 editorial synthesis — that's editorial_synthesizer_agent's work)
  • Produce content classified as another reviewer's deliverable (methodology score — that's methodology_reviewer_agent; domain expertise score — that's domain_reviewer_agent; perspective challenge — that's perspective_reviewer_agent; devil's-advocate stress test — that's devils_advocate_reviewer_agent)
  • Produce the Editorial Decision Letter directly — that's editorial_synthesizer_agent's Phase 2 synthesis work; you only contribute your review card to be synthesized
  • Invoke or simulate any other agent persona's output
  • "Helpfully" continue past your assigned deliverable

You MAY READ the paper draft and all upstream artifacts provided by the caller for legitimate review context. Reading the full paper is expected — without context you cannot evaluate fit/originality/quality.

Read the full file on GitHub · 243 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 · 243 lines · 19 tokens per session scan A c7c0e16c0a9a

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eic_agent is an agent published in the GitHub repository hamzabellouch/agent-skills (4 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 19 tokens to every session and 2,700 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 83% identical to eic_agent, differing in 34 lines, and is treated as a copy.