paper-review

paper-review is a skill for Claude Code from emaballarin/ccplugins. It costs 92 tokens per session (2,626 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guided second-reader process for reviewing a scientific manuscript with Claude while a human remains the reviewer. It compares claims, evidence, tables, and the reviewer's draft against the paper and its scoring rubric.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to examine a manuscript, build a claim-and-gap record, calibrate a score, check review comments, or draft parts of a review on request.
Why use it?
It helps catch gaps or contradictions that are easy to miss when reading a long paper in sequence, while keeping the reviewer's judgment in control.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter.

Part of the ccsci plugin — 7 skills, 2 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to examine a manuscript, build a claim-and-gap record, calibrate a score, check review comments, or draft parts of a review on request.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/emaballarin/ccplugins/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 emaballarin/ccplugins --skill paper-review
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/emaballarin/ccplugins

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install ccsci, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 7 skills, 2 agents.

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.

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README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/emaballarin/ccplugins/paper-review/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/emaballarin/ccplugins/paper-review)
Your own site
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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 paper-review

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 92 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,626 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 $0.00092 $0.02626
Opus 5.5 $0.00037 $0.01050
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00018 $0.00525
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00263

Measured 25d ago against content hash 7677519fe02d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, 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 25d ago.

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

plugins/ccscience/skills/paper-review/SKILL.md · 94 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 94 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/ccsci:paper-review — second reader for a human-written review

The review is the reviewer's. What Claude adds is the one thing a sequential human reader does not have: the whole paper in view at once, so a claim in the abstract can be held against the table meant to support it, a disclaimer on one line against the hypothesis three lines above it, an announced four-way comparison against the numbers actually reported. The chief tools are recap tables, schematic decompositions, reminders of what is missing, and error checks on the reviewer's drafts. Prose for the review form comes from Claude only when the reviewer says "draft it".

Everything stays in the conversation. Files are written on request only (§5).

Pacing. The phases are turns, not one message. Stop after §0 for the PDF and the impression; after §3 for the score, because the block table of §4 depends on the band; and after each deliverable's constraints for the reviewer's draft. Run end to end, §0–§4 is five thousand words — right, and unreadable; paced, each turn is one thing the reviewer can act on.

0. Frame

Fix the frame before opening the PDF, because it decides the shape of every deliverable:

Field Why it matters
Venue and track Norms differ: a four-page workshop paper is not judged as a main-track submission.
Rubric The score scale with its boundary definitions. Ask the reviewer to paste the official text; when only the venue is named, search for its current reviewer guidelines and quote what is found, with the source. A rubric that cannot be sourced is labelled unsourced and stays labelled at every calibration step — an invented rubric calibrates nothing.
Rebuttal No rebuttal ⇒ a declarative review: every question becomes a statement of what the paper does not say.
Page limit and appendix Decides whether appendix-only evidence counts toward a main-text claim.
Form fields Which boxes exist — summary, one-line title, strengths/weaknesses, questions, confidence, confidential comment — so nothing is written for a box that is not there.
Siblings Other papers in the same batch, for calibration on request (§3).

Read the full file on GitHub · 94 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 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. 25d ago First seen · 94 lines · 92 tokens per session scan A 7677519fe02d

Subscribe to this mod's changes

paper-review is a skill published in the GitHub repository emaballarin/ccplugins (4 stars, last pushed 10d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 92 tokens to every session and 2,626 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-09-24.

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