academic-paper-reviewer

academic-paper-reviewer is a skill for Claude Code from Imbad0202/academic-research-skills. It costs 243 tokens per session (10,639 once invoked), scanned C, original, no licence file.

A structured academic-paper review skill that uses several reviewer roles, including journal fit, peer review, and a devil's advocate. It supports both first reviews and re-reviews.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review or re-review academic papers, assess whether they fit a journal, and gather separate comments on methods, subject accuracy, and possible weaknesses.
Why use it?
It examines a paper from multiple stated perspectives, helping surface methodological, subject-area, publication-fit, and opposing concerns.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the academic-research-skills plugin — 5 skills, 16 commands, 42 agents, 2 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to review or re-review academic papers, assess whether they fit a journal, and gather separate comments on methods, subject accuracy, and possible weaknesses.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/imbad0202/academic-research-skills/academic-paper-reviewer
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 Imbad0202/academic-research-skills --skill academic-paper-reviewer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Imbad0202/academic-research-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install academic-research-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 5 skills, 16 commands, 42 agents, 2 hooks.

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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 243 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 10,639 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • Socket pass 26 Oct 2026
  • Snyk warn 26 Oct 2026
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Excessive Agency · line 415
    Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.
    Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
How audits are shown
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 $0.00243 $0.10639
Opus 5.5 $0.00097 $0.04256
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00049 $0.02128
Haiku 4.5 $0.00024 $0.01064

Measured 2d ago against content hash a00ff74bb9b0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

academic-paper-reviewer scanned grade C with 1 finding 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.

Hidden instructionshighPrompt injection

Directives inside HTML comments, invisible characters or bidirectional overrides are read by the model and not by the person reviewing the file.

<!-- canonical:instruction-data-boundary -->
academic-paper-reviewer/SKILL.md · 551 lines

The source is not reproduced here

A licence we could not identify

The repository carries a LICENSE file, but it is custom or dual enough that GitHub cannot name it and neither can this catalogue. Unknown terms are not permission, so the body is not copied here. Read the licence at the source and decide for yourself.

Read it on GitHub

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 Changed · +6 lines a00ff74bb9b0
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  5. 24d ago Changed · +2 lines dd44856b3c87
  6. 1mo ago Changed · +43 lines scan A → C 25dd95645ff8
  7. 1mo ago Changed · +2 lines · +38 tokens per session cef34e00307b
  8. 1mo ago First seen · 492 lines · 205 tokens per session scan A 771a784f2606

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academic-paper-reviewer is a skill published in the GitHub repository Imbad0202/academic-research-skills (54,175 stars, last pushed today), with no licence file. It adds 243 tokens to every session and 10,639 once invoked, about $0.0010 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it C with 1 finding (hidden instructions). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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