research-mentor-review

research-mentor-review is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from hanhuark/mechanical-engineering-research-skill. It costs 49 tokens per session (554 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A structured review process for giving research mentoring feedback. It examines a student paper, proposal, analysis, code, figure, or presentation against its evidence and logic, then explains the next useful improvement without pretending to be the student's advisor.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review research questions, methods, assumptions, citations, analysis, figures, reproducibility, code, and presentation structure.
Why use it?
It separates claims that lack enough evidence from changes that only improve clarity. This makes feedback more specific, teachable, and easier to turn into revisions or checks.

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 thermal-fluid-research-workflow plugin — 9 skills, 17 commands shipped together

Good fit Use it to review research questions, methods, assumptions, citations, analysis, figures, reproducibility, code, and presentation structure.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/hanhuark/mechanical-engineering-research-skill/research-mentor-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 hanhuark/mechanical-engineering-research-skill --skill research-mentor-review
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/hanhuark/mechanical-engineering-research-skill

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install thermal-fluid-research-workflow, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 9 skills, 17 commands.

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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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Per session 49 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 554 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 $0.00049 $0.00554
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.00277
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00111
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00055

Measured 2d ago against content hash 33aa10c87071, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

research-mentor-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 2d 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.

skills/research-mentor-review/SKILL.md · 37 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 37 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Research Mentor Review

Purpose

Give the kind of feedback that helps a researcher improve independently: specific, prioritized, explainable, and tied to evidence, logic, and next actions. This is a mentoring workflow, not an impersonation of any advisor and not a substitute for authorship, supervisory judgment, or safety review.

Review Workflow

  1. Identify the deliverable, audience, decision it must support, available evidence, and the research stage.
  2. Start with what the work currently establishes and what remains unsupported.
  3. Review the highest-risk issues first: research question, novelty/gap logic, methods, assumptions, evidence quality, analysis, physical interpretation, and claim strength.
  4. Then address communication: paragraph/slide logic, citation practice, figures, tables, reproducibility, code, and presentation clarity.
  5. Convert each important critique into an actionable revision, validation, or question. Explain why it matters.

Feedback Standard

Separate:

  • Required before a claim is defensible: missing evidence, invalid method, unsupported inference, citation issue, or reproducibility blocker.
  • Recommended for clarity or impact: organization, figure design, concise wording, stronger comparison, or an additional sensitivity analysis.
  • Questions for the author/advisor: scope, scientific priority, coauthor decision, target venue, resource commitment, or ethics and safety judgment.

Avoid generic praise, vague requests to "add detail," and invented literature or data. Quote or identify the exact location when possible. Keep the tone direct but respectful; explain the path forward rather than simply rejecting the work.

Formulaic Writing Check

When reviewing a manuscript or proposal, flag prose that reads as automatically assembled rather than technically chosen: detail-heavy abstracts, contrast words without a true contrast, vague establish claims, stacked hyphenated modifiers, and em-dash clauses. Describe the reader-facing problem and propose a specific revision. Do not infer or allege AI authorship from style alone.

Read the full file on GitHub · 37 lines

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. 2d ago First seen · 37 lines · 49 tokens per session scan A 33aa10c87071

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research-mentor-review is a skill published in the GitHub repository hanhuark/mechanical-engineering-research-skill (16 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 49 tokens to every session and 554 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 2026-09-10.