paper-review

paper-review is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from bdongucla/math-ai-review-skills. It costs 84 tokens per session (8,695 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A review method for academic papers, meaning research documents submitted for publication or assessment, especially in mathematics and artificial intelligence.

In plain words
What is it for?
Reviewing submitted papers, examining PhD theses, or rapidly screening research manuscripts.
Why use it?
It provides a consistent way to judge evidence, contributions, reasoning, and the difference between a full review and a quick screening.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions subagents.

Good fit Reviewing submitted papers, examining PhD theses, or rapidly screening research manuscripts.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/bdongucla/math-ai-review-skills/paper-review
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.

Any agent
npx skills add bdongucla/math-ai-review-skills --skill paper-review
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bdongucla/math-ai-review-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 84 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 8,695 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 $0.00084 $0.08695
Opus 5 $0.00042 $0.04347
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.01739
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00869

Measured 12d ago against content hash 59a0e026d95b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

paper-review 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 12d 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.

paper-review/SKILL.md · 432 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 432 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

About This Skill This skill is derived from real-world research review practice. It applies to papers at the intersection of mathematics and AI, as well as pure mathematics, theoretical AI, and adjacent fields. The core methodology (evidence-based critique discipline, independent coordinate system, credit attribution) applies to all mathematics-type papers.

Paper Review Skill

Operational guidelines for paper review. Covers the review workflow, output templates, and detailed Referee Mode criteria.

Trigger contexts: user requests paper review, deep evaluation, or rapid screening.

Trigger phrases: paper review, review, evaluate, deep review, rapid screening

Domain surveys, field overviews, and technical intelligence analysis → use a dedicated survey/domain-research skill if your framework includes one.


Review Task Classification (Determine Before Proceeding)

Upon receiving a review task, classify the type before selecting a workflow. Do not default to the full iron-rule process.

Type Context Workflow Target Time
Submitted Paper — Deep Review Reviewing a student's paper; formal peer review Full iron-rule workflow (evidence-based discipline, full reading of prior work, chain-value analysis, second-order verification) 30–60 min
PhD Thesis — External Examination Acting as external examiner for another group's student Lightweight workflow: quick read → focus on novelty + experimental sufficiency → holistic judgment of "meets degree requirements" ≤10 min
Rapid Screening Batch-reviewing papers; deciding whether to read in depth Template A-Rapid Screening ≤5 min

Execution notes for PhD thesis external examination:

  • No need to verify every claim individually against evidence
  • No need to read prior work in full
  • No need to perform second-order consistency checks
  • Focus on: (1) what the core innovation is and whether the contribution is substantive; (2) whether experiments sufficiently support the conclusions; (3) publication record; (4) writing standards
  • Extract PDF tables using pdftoppm + image, not the pdf tool (table data unreliable)
  • Complete in the main session; do not spawn a sub-agent (high disconnection risk for PDF-intensive reads)

Read the full file on GitHub · 432 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. 12d ago First seen · 432 lines · 84 tokens per session scan A 59a0e026d95b

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paper-review is a skill published in the GitHub repository bdongucla/math-ai-review-skills (11 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 84 tokens to every session and 8,695 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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