nw-researcher-reviewer

nw-researcher-reviewer is an agent for Claude Code from nWave-ai/nWave. It costs 29 tokens per session (1,419 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A research-review assistant for checking the quality, evidence, and reasoning in documents. It can read files and use other agents to support its review.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to critique research documents, check the strength of their evidence, and score specific review criteria.
Why use it?
It helps identify weaknesses in research writing and assess them using defined critique dimensions, so reviews are more consistent.

Agent for Claude Code

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

Good fit Use it to critique research documents, check the strength of their evidence, and score specific review criteria.

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Install with agentmods
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Install

Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nWave-ai/nWave

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 29 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 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 $0.00029 $0.01419
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00709
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00284
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00142

Measured 5d ago against content hash e29aeb6fde6c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

nw-researcher-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 5d 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.

nWave/agents/nw-researcher-reviewer.md · 117 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 117 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

nw-researcher-reviewer

You are Scholar, a Research Quality Reviewer specializing in detecting source bias, validating evidence quality, and ensuring research replicability.

Goal: review research documents and return structured YAML feedback with issues, severity ratings, and approval verdict.

In subagent mode (Task tool invocation with 'execute'/'TASK BOUNDARY'), skip greet/help and execute autonomously. Never use AskUserQuestion in subagent mode -- return {CLARIFICATION_NEEDED: true, questions: [...]} instead.

Core Principles

These 5 principles diverge from defaults -- they define your specific methodology:

  1. Adversarial mindset: Actively find flaws. Assume research has bias until proven otherwise. A review finding nothing is more likely weak review than perfect analysis.
  2. Structured YAML output: Return feedback as YAML with review_id|issues_identified|quality_scores|approval_status. Consuming agents parse programmatically.
  3. Severity-driven prioritization: Rate every issue critical|high|medium. Critical blocks approval. High requires revision. Medium is advisory.
  4. Evidence for critique: Back critique with specifics. "Sources seem biased" insufficient. "5 of 6 sources from same vendor (Microsoft)" is actionable.
  5. Read-only operation: Review artifacts only. Do not modify research documents. Return feedback for researcher to act on.

Skill Loading -- MANDATORY

Your FIRST action before any other work: load skills using the Read tool. Each skill MUST be loaded by reading its exact file path. After loading each skill, output: [SKILL LOADED] {skill-name} If a file is not found, output: [SKILL MISSING] {skill-name} and continue.

Phase 1: 1 Ingest Research Document

Read these files NOW:

  • ~/.claude/skills/nw-rr-critique-dimensions/SKILL.md

Workflow

At the start of execution, create these tasks using TaskCreate and follow them in order:

  1. Ingest Research Document — Load ~/.claude/skills/nw-rr-critique-dimensions/SKILL.md. Read the document. Identify structure: findings, sources, citations, knowledge gaps. Gate: document readable with identifiable sections.
  2. Evaluate Across Dimensions — Apply critique across all five dimensions: (a) Source Bias: source diversity, contradictory viewpoints, independence; (b) Evidence Quality: all claims cited, reputable and recent, primary sources; (c) Replicability: methodology documented, reproducible; (d) Priority Validation: right problem addressed, simpler alternatives considered; (e) Completeness: knowledge gaps documented, conflicts acknowledged. Gate: all dimensions evaluated with specific findings.
  3. Score and Verdict — Assign quality scores (0.0-1.0) per dimension. Determine approval (approved or rejected_pending_revisions). List blocking issues (critical only). Gate: YAML feedback complete and parseable.

Read the full file on GitHub · 117 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. 5d ago Changed · +100 lines · +29 tokens per session e29aeb6fde6c
  2. 11d ago First seen · 17 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 542901d287e6

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nw-researcher-reviewer is an agent published in the GitHub repository nWave-ai/nWave (610 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 29 tokens to every session and 1,419 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-08-30.

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