academic-writing-skeptic-structural

academic-writing-skeptic-structural is an agent for Claude Code from larsboes/Axon. It costs 82 tokens per session (355 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A hostile academic reviewer focused on whether a paper or thesis forms a coherent argument from beginning to end. It tests whether the contribution, counter-arguments, strongest sections, and conclusion fit together.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to stress-test the structure of a developed academic document before an examiner or peer reviewer does.
Why use it?
It reveals when a document's framing makes the contribution seem larger than the actual argument supports. It is designed to report a verdict rather than suggest edits.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: a Claude Code subagent (agents/*.md). Also seen: model in frontmatter; reads .claude/ paths.

Good fit Use it to stress-test the structure of a developed academic document before an examiner or peer reviewer does.

Compare 6 agents from other repositories ↓
Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/larsboes/axon/academic-writing-skeptic-structural
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/larsboes/Axon

Made for: Claude Code.

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 academic-writing-skeptic-structural

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/larsboes/axon/academic-writing-skeptic-structural/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/agents/larsboes/axon/academic-writing-skeptic-structural)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/agents/larsboes/axon/academic-writing-skeptic-structural"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/larsboes/axon/academic-writing-skeptic-structural/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 academic-writing-skeptic-structural

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/agents/larsboes/axon/academic-writing-skeptic-structural"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/larsboes/axon/academic-writing-skeptic-structural.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 355 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 $0.00082 $0.00355
Opus 5 $0.00041 $0.00178
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00071
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00036

Measured 9d ago against content hash 5b2baad64fb9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

academic-writing-skeptic-structural 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 9d 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.

Packs/academic-writing/agents/academic-writing-skeptic-structural.md · 26 lines

What it actually says

You are a hostile peer reviewer. Your job is to argue this document's argument doesn't actually cohere end to end — not to suggest improvements, not to list minor issues. You do not edit — you report a verdict only.

Read ~/.claude/skills/academic-writing/references/adversarial-redteam.md for the full pattern this role is part of (you are the "structural skeptic" of three independent skeptics; the others attack methodology and claim-evidence gaps — stay in your lane, don't duplicate their attacks).

Attack the structure directly:

  • If you removed the strongest single section, would the remaining argument still support the stated conclusion?
  • Is there a version of the counter-argument the document never engages with?
  • Would an examiner reasonably conclude the contribution is smaller than claimed once the framing is stripped away?

Return exactly this shape: {flaws: [...], verdict: "fatal" | "serious" | "survives"}. If the argument genuinely holds together, return verdict: "survives" and say so — do not manufacture a structural gap to seem thorough. Default to skepticism under genuine uncertainty, not to generosity.

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. 9d ago First seen · 26 lines · 82 tokens per session scan A 5b2baad64fb9

Subscribe to this mod's changes

academic-writing-skeptic-structural is an agent published in the GitHub repository larsboes/Axon (1 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 82 tokens to every session and 355 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 2026-08-31.

Related

Other agents, from other repositories

sverklo-explore

Drop-in replacement for Claude Code's built-in Explore subagent. Uses sverklo's hybrid-retrieval MCP tools (BM25 + ONNX embeddings + PageRank, 36 tools) to answer file-discovery and code-search questions with 60% fewer tokens than naive grep. Use this when you need to locate definitions, trace references, understand…

sverklo/sverklo · 96 tokens

ipc-contract-auditor

Use when IPC or command-surface drift is possible — after adding, renaming, or removing a Tauri command, a SidecarCommand/SidecarEvent variant, or a tauri-api.ts wrapper, and before merging any branch that touched src-tauri/src/sidecar.rs, src-tauri/sidecar-opencode/src/types.ts, src-tauri/src/lib.rs, or…

kevinlin/cowork-z · 105 tokens

tauri-security-reviewer

Use when reviewing changes that touch the sandbox boundary or credential handling — pathguard.rs, workspacepermissions.rs, securestorage.rs, fsutils.rs, gitops.rs, sidecar.rs, src-tauri/capabilities/.json, tauri.conf.json — or when adding any Tauri command that takes a caller-supplied path, spawns a process, or reads…

kevinlin/cowork-z · 91 tokens

orbit-code-editor

Scoped read-write helper for an Orbit orchestrator. Use when delegating a narrow, well-specified edit — a symbol rename, a file rewrite, a targeted patch — that the parent wants to offload to preserve its own context. Returns a diff summary; the parent decides whether to commit.

danieljhkim/orbit · 63 tokens

orbit-task-pilot

Read-only bounded preflight for Orbit task metadata. Proposes canonical contextfiles and orchestration warnings without editing, promotion, dispatch, or implementation.

danieljhkim/orbit · 34 tokens

bank-extract

Structuring stage of bank onboarding. Reads the ingested raw sources (resumes, notes) listed in the bank's .ingest/manifest.json and writes the two-layer bank per spec/bankformat.md (experiencebank.md for evidence units, profile.json for the record layer), plus .ingest/gaps.md, the ranked interview agenda. Transcribes…

ledq/resumery · 91 tokens