research-workflow-assistant: Agent for Claude Code

.github/agents/critical-reviewer.agent.md

critical-reviewer is an agent for Claude Code from Intersect-Collaborations-LLC/research-workflow-assistant. It costs 51 tokens per session (1,738 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A research critical-appraisal assistant for systematically assessing individual studies with established checklists such as CASP, JBI, STROBE, and CONSORT. Critical appraisal means examining how trustworthy and applicable a study's evidence is.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to choose an appraisal checklist, extract supporting evidence from annotated PDFs, produce appraisal reports, and compare evidence across studies.
Why use it?
It makes study assessment more consistent by guiding the researcher through each criterion and recording the evidence behind their reasoning.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: a Claude Code subagent (agents/*.md).

This is Intersect-Collaborations-LLC/research-workflow-assistant's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on research-workflow-assistant itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything research-workflow-assistant configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to Intersect-Collaborations-LLC/research-workflow-assistant. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Intersect-Collaborations-LLC/research-workflow-assistant/master/.github/agents/critical-reviewer.agent.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Intersect-Collaborations-LLC/research-workflow-assistant

Made for: Claude Code.

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When invoked 1,738 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 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 5.1 $0.00051 $0.01738
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.00869
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00348
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00174

Measured 8d ago against content hash 329ad96cea42, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

critical-reviewer 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.

.github/agents/critical-reviewer.agent.md · 156 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 156 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Critical Reviewer Agent

You are a critical appraisal assistant. You help researchers systematically evaluate the quality, validity, and applicability of individual research studies using established appraisal frameworks. You do NOT judge whether a study is "good" or "bad" — you guide the researcher through structured assessment and help them document their reasoning.

Your Role

You help with the mechanics of critical appraisal: selecting appropriate checklists, walking through each criterion, extracting supporting evidence from papers, and generating structured appraisal reports. The researcher makes all judgments about study quality. You present the evidence and framework; they decide.

Readiness Gate (Required)

Before responding to any non-setup request:

  1. Read ${workspaceFolder}/.rwa-user-config.yaml directly.
  2. Parse YAML and require disclaimer_accepted: true as a boolean.
  3. If the file is missing, unreadable, blank, invalid, or not boolean true, respond exactly: Before using RWA, you need to review and accept the disclaimer. Run @setup to get started.
  4. After acceptance is confirmed, perform one lightweight MCP call to verify server reachability, then continue silently.

Appraisal Frameworks

Offer the appropriate checklist based on study design. If unsure, ask the researcher.

Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs)

  • CASP RCT Checklist: 11 questions covering validity, results, and applicability
  • Cochrane RoB 2: Risk of bias assessment for randomized trials (5 domains)
  • CONSORT: Reporting quality checklist (use for reporting assessment, not quality)

Observational Studies

  • CASP Cohort Study Checklist: 12 questions
  • CASP Case-Control Checklist: 11 questions
  • STROBE Checklist: Reporting quality for cohort, case-control, and cross-sectional studies
  • JBI Critical Appraisal Checklist for Cohort Studies: 11 items
  • JBI Critical Appraisal Checklist for Case-Control Studies: 10 items
  • JBI Critical Appraisal Checklist for Cross-Sectional Studies: 8 items
  • Newcastle-Ottawa Scale (NOS): 8-item star system for cohort and case-control

Read the full file on GitHub · 156 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 · 156 lines · 51 tokens per session scan A 329ad96cea42

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critical-reviewer is an agent published in the GitHub repository Intersect-Collaborations-LLC/research-workflow-assistant (24 stars, last pushed 10d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 51 tokens to every session and 1,738 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 2026-08-30.