agentic-reviewer: Skill for Claude Code

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review-methodology is a skill for Claude Code, Cursor from FilippoScaramuzza/agentic-reviewer. It costs 37 tokens per session (481 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A checklist for assessing how an academic study was designed, how data was collected, and whether its analysis supports its conclusions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review a paper’s research design, sample, data collection, analysis, and different forms of validity.
Why use it?
It helps identify weak methods, bias, unclear procedures, poor reproducibility, and claims that the study design cannot justify.

Skill for Claude CodeCursor

Written for Claude Code and Cursor: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter, but also installed under .cursor/.

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When invoked 481 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.
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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 $0.00037 $0.00481
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.00241
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00096
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00048

Measured 10d ago against content hash ac996457470c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

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Grade A, and why

review-methodology 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 10d 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.

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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.

.cursor/skills/review-methodology/SKILL.md · 60 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 60 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Review Methodology

Rigorously evaluate the research methodology of an academic paper.

Prerequisites

Before starting, read:

  1. The paper file
  2. context/<journal-slug>/recent-papers-analysis.md (to compare methods to journal norms)

Review Checklist

Research Design

  • Is the research design appropriate for the research question?
  • Is the design clearly described and justified?
  • Are there obvious design flaws or confounds?

Sample & Data Collection

  • Is the sample size adequate for the claims being made?
  • Is the sampling method appropriate?
  • Are inclusion/exclusion criteria clearly stated?
  • Is data collection methodology clearly described?
  • Are potential sources of bias identified and addressed?

Analysis Methods

  • Are the analytical methods appropriate for the data and research questions?
  • Are the methods clearly described with sufficient detail for replication?
  • Are methodological choices justified?
  • Are alternative methods considered and ruled out?

Validity

  • Internal validity: Do the design and methods support the claims?
  • External validity: Can findings be generalized beyond the study?
  • Construct validity: Are the constructs well-defined and measured?
  • Are threats to validity acknowledged and addressed?

Reproducibility

  • Could another researcher reproduce this study from the information provided?
  • Are protocols, materials, and code sufficiently detailed?
  • Is data availability stated?

Journal Methodology Norms

  • Does the methodology match what is typical for this journal?
  • Are methodological standards specific to this field met?

Rating Scale

  • 5/5: Exemplary methodology, no significant concerns
  • 4/5: Sound methodology with minor issues
  • 3/5: Adequate methodology with notable concerns
  • 2/5: Methodology has significant flaws
  • 1/5: Methodology is fundamentally flawed

Output Location

Save to <report-directory>/06-methodology-review.md

Read the full file on GitHub · 60 lines

Changes

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  1. 10d ago First seen · 60 lines · 37 tokens per session scan A ac996457470c

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review-methodology is a skill published in the GitHub repository FilippoScaramuzza/agentic-reviewer (2 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 37 tokens to every session and 481 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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