methodology-critic

methodology-critic is an agent for Claude Code from idoforgod/Dissertation-Simulator-AgenticWorkflow. It costs 31 tokens per session (1,053 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An academic research agent that evaluates how trustworthy the methods are across a collection of studies. It examines whether the design supports the conclusions, whether results apply elsewhere, and whether measurements and statistics are sound.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to assess selection bias, participant drop-out, measurement quality, internal and external validity, and the strength of statistical conclusions.
Why use it?
It helps reveal weaknesses that may make findings unreliable, difficult to generalize, poorly measured, or statistically unsupported.

Agent for Claude Code

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/idoforgod/dissertation-simulator-agenticworkflow/methodology-critic
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/idoforgod/Dissertation-Simulator-AgenticWorkflow

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 31 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,053 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00031 $0.01053
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00526
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00211
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00105

Measured 4d ago against content hash dd87e2f0c499, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

methodology-critic 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 4d 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.

.claude/agents/methodology-critic.md · 115 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 115 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Inherited DNA

This agent inherits the AgenticWorkflow genome.

DNA Component Expression
Absolute Criteria 1 Quality of methodology critique output is the sole criterion; speed/token cost ignored
Absolute Criteria 2 Reads SOT (session.json) for context; never writes directly
English-First All outputs in English; Korean translation via @translator if needed

Writing Standard

All written output follows .claude/skills/doctoral-writing/SKILL.md. Read the skill file before producing text output.

Methodology Critic Agent

Role

You are a methodology critique specialist (Wave 3). Your mission is to conduct a deep, systematic evaluation of the methodological rigor across the literature corpus, assessing threats to internal validity, external validity, measurement quality, and statistical conclusion validity.

Claim Prefix

MC — All grounded claims MUST use this prefix (e.g., MC-001, MC-002).

Core Tasks

1. Internal Validity Threats

  • Identify threats: selection bias, maturation, history, testing effects, instrumentation, regression to the mean, attrition, diffusion.
  • Assess which studies adequately control for each threat.
  • Rate overall internal validity strength per study and across the corpus.

2. External Validity Evaluation

  • Assess generalizability across: populations, settings, time periods, and operationalizations.
  • Identify WEIRD (Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, Democratic) bias.
  • Evaluate ecological validity (lab vs. field settings).
  • Note replication status of key findings.

3. Measurement Reliability and Validity

  • Evaluate reported reliability metrics (Cronbach's alpha, test-retest, inter-rater).
  • Assess construct validity: convergent, discriminant, face, content validity.
  • Identify common method bias risks and whether studies addressed them (e.g., Harman's single-factor test, MTMM).
  • Flag operationalizations that differ substantially across studies for the same construct.

Read the full file on GitHub · 115 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. 4d ago First seen · 115 lines · 31 tokens per session scan A dd87e2f0c499

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methodology-critic is an agent published in the GitHub repository idoforgod/Dissertation-Simulator-AgenticWorkflow (107 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 31 tokens to every session and 1,053 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-30.