aer-referee-sim

aer-referee-sim is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from franklee16/academic-research-skills. It costs 78 tokens per session (2,453 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

An internal review guide that simulates an American Economic Review desk screening and three referee reports for a completed paper draft. It scores the paper against an editorial rubric and creates a prioritized revision list.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to test a finished manuscript, identify likely editorial or referee concerns, and plan revisions before submitting.
Why use it?
It helps find serious objections before submission, when revisions are still possible. It turns a broad review into a list of changes to make first.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: shipped in a Claude Code plugin, but also agents/openai.yaml present.

Part of the aer-skills plugin — 14 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to test a finished manuscript, identify likely editorial or referee concerns, and plan revisions before submitting.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/franklee16/academic-research-skills/aer-referee-sim
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 franklee16/academic-research-skills --skill aer-referee-sim
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/franklee16/academic-research-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install aer-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 14 skills.

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.

agentmods badge for aer-referee-sim

README.md
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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.

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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 78 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,453 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 unknown 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 $0.00078 $0.02453
Opus 5.5 $0.00031 $0.00981
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00016 $0.00491
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00245

Measured 1mo ago against content hash cb40b95bd3c2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

aer-referee-sim 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 1mo 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.

Awesome-Journal-Skills-main/AER-Skills-main/skills/aer-referee-sim/SKILL.md · 241 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

Read it on GitHub

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 1mo ago First seen · 241 lines · 78 tokens per session scan A cb40b95bd3c2

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aer-referee-sim is a skill published in the GitHub repository franklee16/academic-research-skills (223 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 78 tokens to every session and 2,453 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-09-18.

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