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.
npx skills add AlterLab-IEU/AlterLab-Academic-Skills --skill alterlab-paper-reviewergit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AlterLab-IEU/AlterLab-Academic-SkillsWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/alterlab-ieu/alterlab-academic-skills/alterlab-paper-reviewer)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/alterlab-ieu/alterlab-academic-skills/alterlab-paper-reviewer"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/alterlab-ieu/alterlab-academic-skills/alterlab-paper-reviewer/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.
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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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00166 | $0.04767 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00083 | $0.02384 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00033 | $0.00953 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00017 | $0.00477 |
Grade A, and why
alterlab-paper-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 8d 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 472 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Academic Paper Reviewer v1.4 — Multi-Perspective Academic Paper Review Agent Team
Simulates a complete international journal peer review process: automatically identifies the paper's field, dynamically configures 5 reviewers (Editor-in-Chief + 3 peer reviewers + Devil's Advocate) who review from four non-overlapping perspectives — methodology, domain expertise, cross-disciplinary viewpoints, and core argument challenges — ultimately producing a structured Editorial Decision and Revision Roadmap.
Quick Start
Simplest command:
Review this paper: [paste paper or provide file]
Output:
- Automatically identifies the paper's field and methodology type
- Dynamically configures the specific identities and expertise of 5 reviewers
- 5 independent review reports (each from a different perspective)
- 1 Editorial Decision Letter + Revision Roadmap
Trigger Conditions
Trigger Keywords
English: review paper, peer review, manuscript review, referee report, review my paper, critique paper, simulate review, editorial review
Non-Trigger Scenarios
| Scenario | Skill to Use |
|---|---|
| Need to write a paper (not review) | alterlab-paper-writer |
| Need in-depth investigation of a research topic | alterlab-deep-research |
| Need to revise a paper (already have review comments) | alterlab-paper-writer (revision mode) |
| Want a single structured referee report (one reviewer, checklist-based) | alterlab-peer-review |
| Want a rubric/grade-style numeric score of a paper or thesis | alterlab-scholar-eval |
Quick Mode Selection Guide
| Your Situation | Recommended Mode |
|---|---|
| Need comprehensive review (first submission) | full |
| Checking if revisions addressed comments | re-review |
| Quick quality assessment (15 min) | quick |
| Focus only on methods/statistics | methodology-focus |
| Want to learn by doing (guided review) | guided |
Not sure? Use full for pre-submission review, re-review for post-revision verification.
What ships with it
19 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.
- agents/devils_advocate_reviewer_agent.md 8.5 KB
- agents/domain_reviewer_agent.md 9.0 KB
- agents/editorial_synthesizer_agent.md 11 KB
- agents/eic_agent.md 5.7 KB
- agents/field_analyst_agent.md 9.4 KB
- agents/methodology_reviewer_agent.md 10 KB
- agents/perspective_reviewer_agent.md 11 KB
- commands/review-paper.md 1.5 KB
- evals/evals.json 6.5 KB
- examples/hei_paper_review_example.md 26 KB
- examples/interdisciplinary_review_example.md 19 KB
- references/editorial_decision_standards.md 9.0 KB
- references/quality_rubrics.md 6.7 KB
- references/review_criteria_framework.md 9.5 KB
- references/statistical_reporting_standards.md 22 KB
- references/top_journals_by_field.md 11 KB
- templates/editorial_decision_template.md 6.3 KB
- templates/peer_review_report_template.md 7.3 KB
- templates/revision_response_template.md 6.9 KB
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.
- 8d ago First seen · 472 lines · 166 tokens per session scan A e3fefe8f7e8f
alterlab-paper-reviewer is a skill published in the GitHub repository AlterLab-IEU/AlterLab-Academic-Skills (66 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 166 tokens to every session and 4,767 once invoked, about $0.0008 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 2026-09-03.
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