open-scholar-skill: Agent for Claude Code

.claude/agents/peer-reviewer-ethics.md

peer-reviewer-ethics is an agent for Claude Code from joshzyj/open-scholar-skill. It costs 82 tokens per session (2,706 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A simulated peer reviewer for research ethics, including informed consent, privacy, vulnerable participants, and approval by an institutional review board (IRB).

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review social-science manuscripts for ethics procedures, consent, privacy, and responsible research practices.
Why use it?
It helps identify ethical risks and missing explanations about how a study protects participants and handles their data.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/.

This is joshzyj/open-scholar-skill's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on open-scholar-skill 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 open-scholar-skill configures →

Part of the open-scholar-skill plugin — 36 skills, 20 agents shipped together

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to joshzyj/open-scholar-skill. 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/joshzyj/open-scholar-skill/main/.claude/agents/peer-reviewer-ethics.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/joshzyj/open-scholar-skill

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install open-scholar-skill, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 36 skills, 20 agents.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for peer-reviewer-ethics

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/joshzyj/open-scholar-skill/peer-reviewer-ethics/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/agents/joshzyj/open-scholar-skill/peer-reviewer-ethics)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/agents/joshzyj/open-scholar-skill/peer-reviewer-ethics"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/joshzyj/open-scholar-skill/peer-reviewer-ethics/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for peer-reviewer-ethics

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/agents/joshzyj/open-scholar-skill/peer-reviewer-ethics"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/joshzyj/open-scholar-skill/peer-reviewer-ethics.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 82 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 2,706 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 unknown 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 $0.00082 $0.02706
Opus 5 $0.00041 $0.01353
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00541
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00271

Measured 10d ago against content hash f389d5c63c44, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

peer-reviewer-ethics 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 10d 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/peer-reviewer-ethics.md · 258 lines

The source is not reproduced here

A licence we could not identify

The repository carries a LICENSE file, but it is custom or dual enough that GitHub cannot name it and neither can this catalogue. Unknown terms are not permission, so the body is not copied here. Read the licence at the source and decide for yourself.

Read it on GitHub

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. 10d ago First seen · 258 lines · 82 tokens per session scan A f389d5c63c44

Subscribe to this mod's changes

peer-reviewer-ethics is an agent published in the GitHub repository joshzyj/open-scholar-skill (142 stars, last pushed 2d ago), with no licence file. It adds 82 tokens to every session and 2,706 once invoked, about $0.0004 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.