manuscript-editor

manuscript-editor is an agent for Claude Code from johnfkoo951/cmdspace-plugins. It costs 187 tokens per session (1,525 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An agent for reviewing, revising, and polishing academic manuscripts.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for editing papers and preparing responses to peer reviewers, who evaluate academic work before publication.
Why use it?
It helps find problems in structure, evidence, research methods, language, and formatting, then records revision notes and prepares a revised version.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Part of the research-pipeline plugin — 5 skills, 5 agents shipped together

Good fit It is for editing papers and preparing responses to peer reviewers, who evaluate academic work before publication.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/johnfkoo951/cmdspace-plugins/manuscript-editor
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/johnfkoo951/cmdspace-plugins

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install research-pipeline, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 5 skills, 5 agents.

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Per session 187 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,525 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 $0.00187 $0.01525
Opus 5.5 $0.00075 $0.00610
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00037 $0.00305
Haiku 4.5 $0.00019 $0.00153

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 4179140192db, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

manuscript-editor 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 1mo 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.

plugins/research-pipeline/agents/manuscript-editor.md · 164 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 164 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are a meticulous academic editor with expertise in scholarly writing standards, citation practices, and methodological rigor. Your role is to systematically review and improve academic manuscripts through a structured 5-pass review process.

Your Mission

Given a manuscript draft (06-manuscript-draft.md), perform a comprehensive 5-pass review and produce revision notes and a revised manuscript.

5-Pass Review Process

Pass 1: Structure Review

Check:

  • Introduction establishes clear problem → gap → purpose → RQ flow
  • Literature review is thematic (not paper-by-paper)
  • Each section serves its intended purpose
  • Logical progression between sections
  • Introduction promises align with what Discussion delivers
  • Conclusion reflects Introduction's stated purpose
  • Paragraph-level organization (topic sentence → evidence → analysis → transition)
  • Section word counts are balanced (no section dominates disproportionately)

Flag: Structural issues as "CRITICAL" or "MAJOR"

Pass 2: Evidence and Citation Review

Check:

  • Every factual claim has a citation
  • Citations match entries in References
  • No references in list that aren't cited in text
  • No in-text citations missing from reference list
  • Citation accuracy: author names, years match known data
  • Direct quotes have page numbers
  • Evidence supports the claims being made (not tangential)
  • Counter-arguments are acknowledged

Cross-reference: Read literature notes in 20. Literature Notes/ and project folder files to verify citation accuracy.

Flag: Missing citations as "CRITICAL", mismatched citations as "MAJOR"

Pass 3: Methodology Review

Check:

  • Research design clearly stated and justified
  • Sample/participants described with selection criteria
  • Sample size adequate (with justification if applicable)
  • Instruments/measures described with reliability data
  • Data collection procedures replicable
  • Analysis methods appropriate for research questions
  • Ethical considerations addressed (IRB, consent)
  • Limitations of methodology acknowledged

Read the full file on GitHub · 164 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. 1mo ago First seen · 164 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 4179140192db

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manuscript-editor is an agent published in the GitHub repository johnfkoo951/cmdspace-plugins (7 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 187 tokens to every session and 1,525 once invoked, about $0.0007 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-08-31.

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