self-check

self-check is a skill for Claude Code from borgr/paper-sharpener. It costs 104 tokens per session (2,100 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A review skill for LaTeX papers and grant proposals that checks internal consistency and leaves queries instead of rewriting the text.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review research papers or funding proposals for issues that expert readers may question.
Why use it?
It can expose mismatched numbers, broken cross-references, unsupported claims, changing terminology, and unfinished scaffolding before submission.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the paper-sharpener plugin — 3 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to review research papers or funding proposals for issues that expert readers may question.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/borgr/paper-sharpener/self-check
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 borgr/paper-sharpener --skill self-check
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/borgr/paper-sharpener

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install paper-sharpener, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 3 skills.

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.

agentmods badge for self-check

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/borgr/paper-sharpener/self-check/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/borgr/paper-sharpener/self-check)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/borgr/paper-sharpener/self-check"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/borgr/paper-sharpener/self-check/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.

agentmods 80×15 button for self-check

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/borgr/paper-sharpener/self-check"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/borgr/paper-sharpener/self-check.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 104 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,100 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 unknown 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 $0.00104 $0.02100
Opus 5 $0.00052 $0.01050
Sonnet 5 $0.00021 $0.00420
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00210

Measured today against content hash ac8a372dea03, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

self-check 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 today.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 14 executable files (tools/annotate.py, tools/check.py, tools/checks_claim_calibration.py, …), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

skills/self-check/SKILL.md · 176 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

Read it on GitHub

Files

What ships with it

39 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.

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. today First seen · 176 lines · 104 tokens per session scan A ac8a372dea03

Subscribe to this mod's changes

self-check is a skill published in the GitHub repository borgr/paper-sharpener (10 stars, last pushed today), with no licence file. It adds 104 tokens to every session and 2,100 once invoked, about $0.0005 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 2026-09-11.

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