paper-review

paper-review is a skill for Claude Code from EvoScientist/EvoSkills. It costs 177 tokens per session (2,363 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A checklist and method for reviewing your own academic paper before sending it to a journal or conference.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to stress-test a draft, inspect figures and tables, improve its structure, and prepare for likely reviewer criticism.
Why use it?
It helps find unsupported claims, unclear structure, weak results, incomplete testing, and design problems before reviewers do.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to stress-test a draft, inspect figures and tables, improve its structure, and prepare for likely reviewer criticism.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/evoscientist/evoskills/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 EvoScientist/EvoSkills --skill paper-review
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/EvoScientist/EvoSkills

Made for: Claude Code.

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
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Your own site
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Per session 177 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,363 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
  • Socket pass 18 Mar 2026
  • Snyk pass 17 Mar 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 $0.00177 $0.02363
Opus 5 $0.00088 $0.01182
Sonnet 5 $0.00035 $0.00473
Haiku 4.5 $0.00018 $0.00236

Measured 9d ago against content hash e86ffe859b37, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, 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 9d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/five_aspect_review.js), 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/paper-review/SKILL.md · 218 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 218 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Paper Review

A systematic approach to self-reviewing academic papers before submission. Covers a 5-aspect review checklist, reverse-outlining for structural clarity, figure/table quality checks, and rebuttal preparation.

When to Use This Skill

  • User wants to review or check a paper draft before submission
  • User asks for feedback on paper quality or completeness
  • User wants to prepare for potential reviewer criticism
  • User mentions "review paper", "check my draft", "self-review"

If the user has already received reviewer comments and needs to write a rebuttal, use the paper-rebuttal skill instead.

Prerequisites

Before starting review, confirm the paper-writing handoff checklist is satisfied: all sections drafted, claims anchored to evidence, limitation section present, figures finalized, and no unresolved \todo{} markers. If any item is incomplete, finish writing before reviewing.


The Perfectionist Approach

Strive for perfection: review your own paper, consider every question a reviewer might ask, and address them one by one.

The best defense against negative reviews is a thorough self-review:

  1. Adversarial review: Read your own paper as a critical reviewer would
  2. Seek advisor feedback: Ask your advisor to review — the more feedback, the better
  3. Address everything: For every potential weakness you find, either fix it or prepare a defense

Counterintuitive Review Protocol

Run this protocol before final polishing:

  1. Reject-first simulation: Force yourself to write a one-paragraph reject summary before writing any positive comments.
  2. Delete one unsupported strong claim: If a strong claim lacks direct evidence, remove it instead of defending it.
  3. Score trust, not only score gains: Papers with slightly lower gains but higher fairness and reproducibility often receive better review outcomes.
  4. Promote one explicit limitation: Move one meaningful limitation from hidden notes into the paper; transparency can increase confidence.
  5. Attack your novelty claim: Ask "Could a strong PhD derive this in one afternoon?" If yes, narrow and sharpen the novelty statement.

Read the full file on GitHub · 218 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 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. 9d ago First seen · 218 lines · 177 tokens per session scan A e86ffe859b37

Subscribe to this mod's changes

paper-review is a skill published in the GitHub repository EvoScientist/EvoSkills (436 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 177 tokens to every session and 2,363 once invoked, about $0.0009 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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