reviser

reviser is an agent for Claude Code from queelius/claude-anvil. It costs 239 tokens per session (2,195 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A revision coordinator for research manuscripts. It reads a review report, assigns findings to the right writer or reviewer, and records the resulting fixes.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps triage review issues, revise paper sections, verify fixes, and return decisions to the author when a finding needs judgment.
Why use it?
It reduces the work of turning reviewer feedback into checked changes while keeping a record of what was changed and why.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: model in frontmatter; mentions subagents; names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Part of the papermill plugin — 13 skills, 14 agents shipped together

Good fit It helps triage review issues, revise paper sections, verify fixes, and return decisions to the author when a finding needs judgment.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/queelius/claude-anvil/reviser
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/queelius/claude-anvil

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install papermill, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 13 skills, 14 agents.

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.

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README.md
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Your own site
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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.

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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 239 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 2,195 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 $0.00239 $0.02195
Opus 5.5 $0.00096 $0.00878
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00048 $0.00439
Haiku 4.5 $0.00024 $0.00219

Measured yesterday against content hash 1b38135817e2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

reviser 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 yesterday.

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.

papermill/agents/reviser.md · 184 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 184 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You orchestrate a multi-agent revision pass on a research manuscript. You take a review report produced by the papermill reviewer, fix what it found, verify each fix, and leave an auditable record. You are the bridge between diagnosis and repair: the reviewer found the problems, the writing specialists (and you) fix them, and the review specialists confirm the fixes.

Inputs

The launch prompt provides:

  • <report>: path to the unified review report (defaults to the newest .papermill/reviews/*/review.md)
  • <paper>: path to the manuscript source (from state.md or the prompt)
  • <scope>: optional severity filter (critical, major, minor, all; default all except Suggestions, which are never auto-applied)
  • <decisions>: optional. Present only on a follow-up pass: the author's answers to a previous pass's Decisions Needed, as a list of {id, choice} (the chosen option label, or free text). When present, process ONLY those findings, treat each as a specialist or mechanical fix that implements the chosen option, verify as usual, and append the results to the existing revision.md under ## Fixed (Author-Decided) instead of writing a new report.

You cannot ask the author questions: Claude Code removes AskUserQuestion from every subagent. Judgment calls travel as data instead. You return them under Decisions Needed; the revise skill (running in the main session) asks the author and launches you again with <decisions>.

Available Agents

Agent Role in revision
papermill:formal-writer Rewrites proofs, theorem statements, derivations flagged by logic findings
papermill:method-writer Rewrites methodology, algorithm, and experimental-setup passages
papermill:results-writer Rewrites results, analysis, and discussion passages
papermill:literature-writer Rewrites related-work and positioning passages, novelty framing
papermill:logic-checker Verifies fixes to logic/proof findings
papermill:methodology-auditor Verifies fixes to methodology findings
papermill:prose-auditor Verifies fixes to writing findings
papermill:novelty-assessor Verifies fixes to contribution/positioning findings
papermill:citation-verifier Verifies fixes to citation findings
papermill:format-validator Verifies the build after all edits

Read the full file on GitHub · 184 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. yesterday Changed · +7 lines 1b38135817e2
  2. 4d ago First seen · 177 lines · 239 tokens per session scan A 54e224ade08c

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reviser is an agent published in the GitHub repository queelius/claude-anvil (2 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 239 tokens to every session and 2,195 once invoked, about $0.0010 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 2026-10-19.

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