paper-review

paper-review is a skill for Codex from Conradgui/Academic-Paper-Review-Skill. It costs 72 tokens per session (5,605 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A skill for reviewing scientific and technical manuscripts in formats such as Markdown, DOCX, PDF, LaTeX, or plain text. It examines research reasoning and evidence as well as clarity, terminology, structure, and citation use.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to audit research questions, methods, variables, results, figures, tables, citations, conclusions, and prose. It creates a dated Markdown review report unless another format is requested.
Why use it?
It helps separate scientific problems from writing problems so important validity issues are not hidden by proofreading. It also flags unclear claims, weak methods, irrelevant references, and inconsistent language.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present. Also seen: $skill-name invocation.

Good fit Use it to audit research questions, methods, variables, results, figures, tables, citations, conclusions, and prose. It creates a dated Markdown review report unless another format is requested.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/conradgui/academic-paper-review-skill/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 Conradgui/Academic-Paper-Review-Skill --skill paper-review
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Conradgui/Academic-Paper-Review-Skill

Made for: Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 72 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,605 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 $0.00072 $0.05605
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.02802
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.01121
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00560

Measured 13d ago against content hash e0f19f9889b9, 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 13d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/proofing_scan.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.

paper-review/SKILL.md · 337 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 337 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Paper Review

Overview

Produce a concrete manuscript review across two parallel quality tracks:

  1. Scientific Review: research questions, methods, evidence, variables, equations, figures/tables, citations, and conclusion boundaries.
  2. Text Quality Review: clarity, terminology, redundancy, paragraph flow, register, and manuscript-style consistency.

Default to a Markdown review report unless the user requests another output format. Scientific validity remains the first priority; text-quality review must not weaken or replace it.

Default Behavior

  1. Read the full manuscript or all provided manuscript material before writing findings.
  2. Preserve equations, symbols, citation keys, table/figure labels, and quoted snippets exactly when needed for accuracy.
  3. Match the user's requested language; default to Simplified Chinese (简体中文) unless specified otherwise.
  4. Create a new timestamped review file at paper-reviews/review-YYYY-MM-DD-HHMMSS.md when writing to disk, unless the user gives another path. Treat paper-reviews/ and paper-revisions/ as user-facing deliverable directories. Do not place plans, scratch notes, logs, or temporary files in them.
  5. Do not modify the manuscript unless the user explicitly requests edits or a revision pass.
  6. Do not require a fixed review template. Use the structure that best exposes actionable issues.
  7. If the manuscript is incomplete, review what is available and state which checks are limited by missing files.
  8. Run both review tracks by default. Keep the text-quality result concise unless material problems or an explicit request trigger detailed reporting.
  9. Do not infer authorship or output an AI probability.

Input Handling

Support Markdown, DOCX, PDF, LaTeX source, and plain text.

  • Markdown or plain text: review structure, claims, citations, tables, formulas, and prose directly.
  • DOCX: review extractable manuscript content only. Use headings or table text as content-location context when available, but do not assess, repair, preserve, or guarantee layout, styles, pagination, comments, tracked changes, text boxes, field codes, or equation/table rendering.
  • PDF: review visible content; note that source-level comments, hidden metadata, and some cross-reference checks may be limited. Do not perform full-manuscript polishing from PDF alone.
  • LaTeX: inspect source when available; for LaTeX-specific source, macro, cross-reference, and compileability concerns, prefer $latex-paper-review when installed.
  • Multi-file projects: inspect the main file plus included chapters, bibliography, appendices, tables, figures/captions, and supporting notes when available.

Read the full file on GitHub · 337 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. 13d ago First seen · 337 lines · 72 tokens per session scan A e0f19f9889b9

Subscribe to this mod's changes

paper-review is a skill published in the GitHub repository Conradgui/Academic-Paper-Review-Skill (5 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 72 tokens to every session and 5,605 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 2026-08-31.

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