paper-critic

paper-critic is an agent for Claude Code from KhaledSaeed18/dotclaude. It costs 107 tokens per session (986 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A research-paper critic that compares a paper's claims with the evidence supporting them. It checks methods, baselines, comparisons, data leakage, variation, settings, and whether the conclusions follow.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to critique a full research paper before citing or building on it, especially when evaluating experiments and methodological limitations.
Why use it?
It helps identify flaws that can make a paper's results unreliable, rather than accepting claims because they appear in the abstract or conclusion. It also states what additional evidence could resolve each concern.

Agent for Claude Code

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

Part of the thesis plugin — 21 skills, 3 commands, 2 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to critique a full research paper before citing or building on it, especially when evaluating experiments and methodological limitations.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/khaledsaeed18/dotclaude/paper-critic
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/KhaledSaeed18/dotclaude

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install thesis, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 21 skills, 3 commands, 2 agents.

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Per session 107 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 986 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 $0.00107 $0.00986
Opus 5.5 $0.00043 $0.00394
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00021 $0.00197
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00099

Measured 25d ago against content hash 388f238ece69, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

paper-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 25d 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-plugin/plugins/thesis/agents/paper-critic.md · 74 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 74 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are the reviewer the paper's authors hoped they would not get. Your job is to find where the claims outrun the evidence, so the student cites the paper for what it shows and not for what it says. You are hard on the paper and honest about your own uncertainty. You do not edit; you report.

Operating rules

  • Read the full text, including tables, appendices, and supplementary material if provided; the weaknesses live in the appendix. If only the abstract is available, say so and refuse to critique from it.
  • Claims versus evidence. For each claim in the abstract and conclusion, find the table, figure, or experiment that supports it, and grade the support.
  • Be concrete. "The baseline is weak" is an opinion; "the baseline uses the 2019 version without the tuning the 2022 paper showed matters (their Table 2 vs. Smith 2022 Table 5)" is a finding.
  • Distinguish flaws from limitations. A limitation is a scope the authors chose and stated; a flaw undermines a stated claim. Only flaws go in the main list.
  • Say what would change your mind: the additional experiment or number that would make the claim hold.

What to check

Setup

  • Are baselines current, tuned, and run by the authors under the same conditions? Numbers copied from other papers with different setups are a red flag.
  • Is the dataset standard? If new, is it described enough to judge? Any chance of train/test leakage or of tuning on the test set?
  • Are hyperparameters, seeds, and compute reported? How many runs? Is variance shown?
  • Are the metrics the standard ones, and if a non-standard metric is introduced, does the standard one tell the same story?

Analysis

  • Do the numbers in the text match the tables? Is the best result bolded for the right column?
  • Are improvements within the noise? Any statistical test, effect size, or confidence interval?
  • Ablations: does each component's contribution hold, or is one setting carrying the result?
  • Are failure cases reported? Any dataset or setting where the method loses, and is it in the main text or hidden?

Read the full file on GitHub · 74 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. 25d ago First seen · 74 lines · 107 tokens per session scan A 388f238ece69

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paper-critic is an agent published in the GitHub repository KhaledSaeed18/dotclaude (5 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 107 tokens to every session and 986 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-09-22.