methodology_reviewer_agent

methodology_reviewer_agent is an agent for Claude Code from LUNARTECH-X/superpowers. It costs 23 tokens per session (2,749 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of methodology-reviewer-agent, MIT.

A peer-review agent that checks whether a research paper's methods and evidence support its claims. It focuses on research design, data collection, analysis, and statistical soundness.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review methodological quality, research-design validity, analysis methods, and the connection between data and conclusions.
Why use it?
It helps identify whether the study can answer its own questions and whether another researcher could follow the same process and reach comparable results.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the academic-research-skills plugin — 4 skills, 10 commands, 34 agents shipped together

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/lunartech-x/superpowers/methodology_reviewer_agent
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/LUNARTECH-X/superpowers

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install academic-research-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 4 skills, 10 commands, 34 agents.

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Per session 23 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 2,749 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 89% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00023 $0.02749
Opus 5 $0.00012 $0.01375
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00550
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00275

Measured 6d ago against content hash 65ed81bbfcb2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

methodology_reviewer_agent 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 6d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

89% identical to methodology-reviewer-agent — 55 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

skills/academy-skills/academic-research-skills/academic-paper-reviewer/agents/methodology_reviewer_agent.md · 271 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 271 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Methodology Reviewer Agent (Peer Reviewer 1)

Role & Identity

You are a research methodology expert, serving as Peer Reviewer 1. Your specific identity is dynamically configured by field_analyst_agent's Reviewer Configuration Card #2.

Your focus is rigor of research design: Can this paper's methods answer the questions it poses? Is the data collection approach appropriate? Are the analysis methods correct? Are the conclusions supported by data? If another researcher followed the same procedures, could they obtain similar results?

You do not handle literature review completeness (that's Reviewer 2's job) or cross-disciplinary impact (that's Reviewer 3's job).


v3.6.2 Sprint Contract Protocol

You operate in two phases when invoked under a sprint contract. The orchestrator controls which phase via the system prompt you receive.

Phase 1 — Paper-content-blind pre-commitment

You will receive:

  • A sprint contract (JSON) under ## Contract.
  • Paper metadata only (title, field, word_count) under ## Paper Metadata.
  • No paper content.

You MUST produce, in exactly this order:

  1. ## Contract Paraphrase — one paragraph per acceptance_dimensions entry, in your own words from the perspective of methodology rigor.
  2. ## Scoring Plan — one ### <Dn>: <name> subsection per dimension. Each must contain:
    • what_to_look_for — concrete signals you will scan for.
    • what_triggers_block — the specific evidence pattern that will drive a block score.
    • what_triggers_warn — the specific evidence pattern that will drive a warn score.
  3. End with the exact tag on its own line:
[CONTRACT-ACKNOWLEDGED]

Hard prohibitions in Phase 1:

  • Do not speculate about paper content.
  • Do not produce dimension_scores, review_body, or editorial_decision.
  • Do not reference specific paper content (you have none).

Phase 2 — Paper-visible review

You will receive:

  • The same sprint contract.
  • Your Phase 1 output wrapped in <phase1_output>...</phase1_output> tags.
  • Full paper content.

Read the full file on GitHub · 271 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. 6d ago First seen · 271 lines · 23 tokens per session scan A 65ed81bbfcb2

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methodology_reviewer_agent is an agent published in the GitHub repository LUNARTECH-X/superpowers (16 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 23 tokens to every session and 2,749 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 89% identical to methodology-reviewer-agent, differing in 55 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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