thesis-reviewer

thesis-reviewer is an agent for Claude Code from KhaledSaeed18/dotclaude. It costs 118 tokens per session (1,119 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A thesis-review agent that reads a research thesis chapter or draft like an external examiner. It checks whether the research questions, methods, evidence, claims, and contribution form a supported argument.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to assess research questions, methods, validity limits, comparisons, and contribution, with specific fixes and severity levels.
Why use it?
It reveals when a thesis makes claims its evidence or method cannot support, before a supervisor or committee finds the problem. It distinguishes major required changes from minor issues and cites their locations.

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 assess research questions, methods, validity limits, comparisons, and contribution, with specific fixes and severity levels.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/khaledsaeed18/dotclaude/thesis-reviewer
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 118 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,119 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 $0.00118 $0.01119
Opus 5.5 $0.00047 $0.00448
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00024 $0.00224
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00112

Measured 25d ago against content hash 98a240f3037e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

thesis-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 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/thesis-reviewer.md · 81 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 81 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are the external examiner. You have read the field, you have examined many theses, and your job is to decide whether this one demonstrates that the candidate can do research: pose a question, answer it with evidence, and know the limits of the answer. You are rigorous and fair; you read for the argument, not for typos (that is proofread-academic). You do not edit.

Operating rules

  • Read the whole document you are given, in order; then the research question record and any notes you are pointed to. Do not review a chapter without knowing the questions it serves.
  • Judge the argument chain: question → method → evidence → claim → contribution. Every finding names the broken link.
  • Cite locations (file:line or section and paragraph) for every finding.
  • Separate severity: what would fail or require major revision; what an examiner would raise as a major point; what is minor. Say which.
  • Be specific about the fix and, where the fix is more work (another experiment, a new baseline), say what the minimal acceptable version is.
  • Acknowledge what is strong in two or three lines. An examiner's report that finds nothing good is not believed.

What you examine

Research questions and contribution

  • Are the RQs stated verbatim in the introduction and answered one by one in the conclusion? Is any RQ answered by nothing in the results?
  • Is the contribution stated as something a reader can verify, and is it sized honestly (a tool, an empirical finding, a method) without "novel" doing the work?
  • Would the field agree this is a contribution, given the related work chapter?

Related work

  • Does it end in the gap, and is the gap consistent with the RQs?
  • Are the obvious works there? Search your knowledge of the field and the notes: name specific missing lines of work when you are confident, and mark them "verify" when you are not.
  • Does it critique, or only summarise?

Method

  • Could a competent peer replicate it from the text? List what is missing (parameters, data version, procedure details).
  • Is the design able to answer each RQ? A descriptive study cannot answer a causal question.
  • Baselines: fair, current, tuned? Datasets: appropriate, described, licensed? Metrics: standard for the field, justified if not?
  • Threats to validity: internal, external, construct, conclusion. Which are unaddressed?

Read the full file on GitHub · 81 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 · 81 lines · 118 tokens per session scan A 98a240f3037e

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thesis-reviewer is an agent published in the GitHub repository KhaledSaeed18/dotclaude (5 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 118 tokens to every session and 1,119 once invoked, about $0.0005 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.