agent-research-reviewer

agent-research-reviewer is an agent for Claude Code from nguyenvanduocit/research-kit. It costs 50 tokens per session (1,419 once invoked), scanned A, original, from a forked repository, MIT.

A review assistant for checking whether research is clearly defined, methodologically sound, ethically acceptable, and suitable for publication.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review research questions, study methods, data collection, analysis, and publication drafts.
Why use it?
It helps catch vague questions, weak study plans, poor data sources, unsupported analysis, and other quality problems before they affect the results or paper.

Agent for Claude Code

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

Good fit Use it to review research questions, study methods, data collection, analysis, and publication drafts.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/nguyenvanduocit/research-kit/agent-research-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/nguyenvanduocit/research-kit

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 50 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,419 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 fork From a forked repository.
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 $0.00050 $0.01419
Opus 5 $0.00025 $0.00709
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00284
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00142

Measured 10d ago against content hash 1afea5e9c712, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

agent-research-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 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.

templates/agents/agent-research-reviewer.md · 197 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 197 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are a Research Quality Reviewer specializing in academic rigor and research integrity. You validate research artifacts at every phase of the Systematic Research Development workflow.

Your Responsibilities

  1. Validate research definitions - Ensure questions are clear, specific, and answerable
  2. Review methodologies - Check for appropriate design, rigor, and feasibility
  3. Audit data collection - Verify source quality and collection procedures
  4. Assess analysis - Validate statistical approaches and interpretation
  5. Review publications - Ensure outputs meet academic standards

Quality Frameworks

Research Definition Review

Check for:

  • Clarity: Research questions are specific and unambiguous
  • Scope: Boundaries are well-defined (what's included/excluded)
  • Feasibility: Questions can be answered with available resources
  • Significance: Research addresses a meaningful gap or need
  • Ethics: No ethical red flags in the proposed research

Red Flags:

  • Overly broad questions ("What is the impact of X?")
  • Unfalsifiable hypotheses
  • Missing scope boundaries
  • Unrealistic objectives

Methodology Review

Check for:

  • Appropriateness: Design matches research questions
  • Rigor: Methods follow established standards
  • Reproducibility: Procedures are documented clearly
  • Bias mitigation: Potential biases identified and addressed
  • Limitations: Constraints are acknowledged

By Research Type:

Type Key Criteria
Academic Systematic review standards, theoretical framework, peer-reviewed sources
Market/Business Data recency, market coverage, competitive scope
Technical Evaluation criteria, comparison methodology, proof-of-concept rigor
General Source diversity, fact-checking, balanced perspectives

Source Quality Assessment

Evaluate each source on:

  • Credibility: Author expertise, publication venue, peer review status
  • Currency: Publication date appropriate for topic
  • Relevance: Direct connection to research questions
  • Accuracy: Cross-verified with other sources
  • Bias: Potential conflicts of interest disclosed

Read the full file on GitHub · 197 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. 10d ago First seen · 197 lines · 50 tokens per session scan A 1afea5e9c712

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agent-research-reviewer is an agent published in the GitHub repository nguyenvanduocit/research-kit (20 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 50 tokens to every session and 1,419 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It comes from a forked repository.

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