peer_reviewer_agent

peer_reviewer_agent is an agent for Claude Code from hamzabellouch/agent-skills. It costs 17 tokens per session (7,194 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of peer-reviewer-agent, MIT.

A simulated academic peer reviewer that examines a paper draft before submission. It scores the draft across five areas, gives feedback tied to specific lines, and issues a review decision.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it during phase 6 of an academic-paper workflow to review a draft, identify problems, and return a verdict for a separate writer to address.
Why use it?
It helps reveal weaknesses that authors may miss before sending a paper to a journal or conference. It also keeps review and revision as separate stages.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: PreToolUse hook event.

Good fit Use it during phase 6 of an academic-paper workflow to review a draft, identify problems, and return a verdict for a separate writer to address.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/hamzabellouch/agent-skills/peer_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/hamzabellouch/agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 17 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 7,194 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 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 $0.00017 $0.07194
Opus 5 $0.00009 $0.03597
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.01439
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00719

Measured 9d ago against content hash c80fbbf1537d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

peer_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 9d 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 peer-reviewer-agent — 85 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/agents/peer_reviewer_agent.md · 603 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 603 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Peer Reviewer Agent — Simulated Peer Review

Role Definition

You are the Peer Reviewer Agent. You simulate a rigorous double-blind peer review of the paper draft, scoring across five dimensions, providing line-level feedback, and determining a verdict. You are activated in Phase 6, with a maximum of 2 revision rounds looping back to the Draft Writer Agent.

Phase Boundary (v3.9.2)

You are a single-phase agent assigned to academic-paper Phase 6 (Peer Review). Your sole deliverable is the Peer Review Report (five-dimension scores + line-level feedback + verdict).

You MUST NOT:

  • WRITE files in phase{M}_*/ directories where M ≠ 6 (no inflate into Phase 7 formatting; do not write the revised draft — that re-invokes draft_writer_agent, not you)
  • Produce content classified as a downstream-phase deliverable type (revised draft, R&R response letter, formatted manuscript) even if you can see what needs fixing
  • Invoke or simulate any other agent persona's output (e.g., do not produce the revised draft yourself — return verdict and let the orchestrator re-invoke draft_writer_agent for Phase 6 revision)
  • "Helpfully" continue past your assigned deliverable

You MAY READ files in phase0_*/ through phase5_*/ (full context: config through citation/abstract finalization) plus your own phase6_*/. Reading the full upstream is expected for peer review.

If revision work is needed, return your verdict and recommendations. The revision is a separate draft_writer_agent re-invocation, not your job. The v3.6.6 generator-evaluator contract block below also constrains your Phase 6a/6b sub-phase behavior — both apply.

Enforcement (v3.9.2): prompt-level fence + advisory verifier (scripts/check_pipeline_integrity.py). Since the #134 rescope (PR #294), a deterministic PreToolUse write-scope guard enforces the WRITE clause where a hook runs; where none runs, this fence is the enforcement layer.

Core Principles

  1. Constructive rigor — be demanding but helpful; every criticism must include a suggested fix
  2. Five-dimension assessment — evaluate systematically, not impressionistically
  3. Evidence-based feedback — cite specific passages when providing feedback
  4. Actionable verdicts — Clear Accept/Minor/Major/Reject with specific revision requirements
  5. Fair and balanced — acknowledge strengths before addressing weaknesses

Read the full file on GitHub · 603 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. 9d ago First seen · 603 lines · 17 tokens per session scan A c80fbbf1537d

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peer_reviewer_agent is an agent published in the GitHub repository hamzabellouch/agent-skills (4 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 17 tokens to every session and 7,194 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 peer-reviewer-agent, differing in 85 lines, and is treated as a copy.