academic-paper-review

academic-paper-review is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from bytedance/deer-flow. It costs 95 tokens per session (2,548 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for reviewing academic papers, which are written reports of research, including preprints published before formal peer review. It produces structured assessments of methods, contributions, context, limitations, and improvements.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review papers from fields such as computer science, biology, physics, and social sciences, from uploaded PDFs or fetched URLs.
Why use it?
It helps readers evaluate whether research is sound, original, meaningful, and reproducible instead of relying only on the paper's claims.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex ✓ vendor

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to review papers from fields such as computer science, biology, physics, and social sciences, from uploaded PDFs or fetched URLs.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/bytedance/deer-flow/academic-paper-review
About the project

DeerFlow is an open-source super-agent harness that coordinates sub-agents, memory, tools, sandboxes, and extensible skills to handle research, coding, and content-creation tasks that may run for minutes or hours. It is intended for long-running, multi-step work performed by AI agents. The catalogue entries are skills, agents, and instructions that support its workflows.

bytedance/deer-flow · 82,196 stars · on GitHub · deerflow.tech

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 bytedance/deer-flow --skill academic-paper-review
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bytedance/deer-flow

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 95 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,548 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. Third-party audits
  • Snyk warn 6 Sept 2026
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00095 $0.02548
Opus 5 $0.00048 $0.01274
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.00510
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00255

Measured 11d ago against content hash a0285baaeacc, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

academic-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 11d 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

5 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

skills/public/academic-paper-review/SKILL.md · 290 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 290 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Academic Paper Review Skill

Overview

This skill produces structured, peer-review-quality analyses of academic papers and research publications. It follows established academic review standards used by top-tier venues (NeurIPS, ICML, ACL, Nature, IEEE) to provide rigorous, constructive, and balanced assessments.

The review covers summary, strengths, weaknesses, methodology assessment, contribution evaluation, literature positioning, and actionable recommendations — all grounded in evidence from the paper itself.

Core Capabilities

  • Parse and comprehend academic papers from uploaded PDFs or fetched URLs
  • Generate structured reviews following top-venue review templates
  • Assess methodology rigor (experimental design, statistical validity, reproducibility)
  • Evaluate novelty and significance of contributions
  • Position the work within the broader research landscape via targeted literature search
  • Identify limitations, gaps, and potential improvements
  • Produce both detailed review and concise executive summary formats
  • Support papers in any scientific domain (CS, biology, physics, social sciences, etc.)

When to Use This Skill

Always load this skill when:

  • User provides a paper URL (arXiv, DOI, conference proceedings, journal link)
  • User uploads a PDF of a research paper or preprint
  • User asks to "review", "analyze", "critique", "assess", or "summarize" a research paper
  • User wants to understand the strengths and weaknesses of a study
  • User requests a peer-review-style evaluation of academic work
  • User asks for help preparing a review for a conference or journal submission

Review Methodology

Phase 1: Paper Comprehension

Thoroughly read and understand the paper before forming any judgments.

Step 1.1: Identify Paper Metadata

Extract and record:

Field Description
Title Full paper title
Authors Author list and affiliations
Venue / Status Publication venue, preprint server, or submission status
Year Publication or submission year
Domain Research field and subfield
Paper Type Empirical, theoretical, survey, position paper, systems paper, etc.

Read the full file on GitHub · 290 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. 11d ago First seen · 290 lines · 95 tokens per session scan A a0285baaeacc

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academic-paper-review is a skill published in the GitHub repository bytedance/deer-flow (82,196 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 95 tokens to every session and 2,548 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 2026-08-30.

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