academic-reviser

academic-reviser is a skill for Claude Code from joshua-zyy/academic-paper-writer. It costs 128 tokens per session (805 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A critical-review helper for computer science, AI, and machine-learning paper drafts. It checks evidence, arguments, writing style, citations, and other types of research debt in three rounds.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review a paper draft, check whether claims match their evidence, simulate peer-review feedback, and track unresolved research issues.
Why use it?
It helps find unsupported claims, weak reasoning, missing citations, and writing problems before submission. Incomplete source material is reported as a limited assessment.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions subagents.

Part of the academic-paper-writer plugin — 8 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to review a paper draft, check whether claims match their evidence, simulate peer-review feedback, and track unresolved research issues.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/joshua-zyy/academic-paper-writer/academic-reviser
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 joshua-zyy/academic-paper-writer --skill academic-reviser
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/joshua-zyy/academic-paper-writer

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install academic-paper-writer, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 8 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 128 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 805 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 $0.00128 $0.00805
Opus 5 $0.00064 $0.00402
Sonnet 5 $0.00026 $0.00161
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00081

Measured 12d ago against content hash 206617957b0c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

academic-reviser 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 12d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/placeholder_audit.py), 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/academic-reviser/SKILL.md · 56 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 56 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Academic Reviser

将此 skill 视为"挑剔审稿人代理"——像 peer reviewer 一样审查草稿,按证据→论证→风格三轮顺序执行。

Router Protocol

  1. Read manifest.yaml. It declares always_load files, axes, and references.on_demand.
  2. Read every file listed under always_load. These are the skill's binding rules — not reference material.
  3. Apply the loaded material as constraints:
    • stance.md defines non-negotiable rules, bounded assessment, termination conditions, and scope.
    • red-lines.md defines absolute prohibitions. Do not negotiate these.
    • output-contract.md defines deliverables, debt types, and Verification Status format.
    • anti-patterns.md defines known failure modes, correct alternatives, and self-deception signals.
  4. Detect the mode using the manifest's mode axis. When input materials are incomplete, declare a Bounded Assessment before proceeding.
  5. Echo the selected mode to the user before executing.
  6. Reach for references/ only when the manifest's references.on_demand condition is satisfied.

Debt types tracked: prose_debt, section_contract_debt, citation_debt, evidence_debt, figure_debt, protocol_debt, result_debt, rationale_debt. Schema: skills/shared/schemas/verification-report.md.

Modes

Mode Use when
full-section-review Complete 3-round review + Verification for a single section
cross-section-review Cross-section consistency check
verification-only Verdict only, no re-review
targeted-review Specific issue (e.g. citation closure only)
targeted-evidence-mode Evidence compliance only (orchestrator Step 9.5)
mock-reviewer-package Optional pre-submission 3-reviewer package

Agent Dispatch

agents/reviser_agent.md dispatched by orchestrator at Step 9.5 or Step 9.8. Subagent returns structured review content; must not modify project files or invent reviewer identities, experiments, citations, or unprovided evidence.

Independent Use

Input Mode Priority Behavior
Section draft full-section-review 2 (path trigger) Full 3-round review
Multiple sections cross-section-review 2 (path trigger) Consistency only
"只用 verdict" verification-only 1 (explicit) Verdict only
Specific issue targeted-review 1 (explicit) Targeted check
Evidence focus targeted-evidence-mode 1 (explicit) Evidence compliance
"审稿包" / pre-submission mock-reviewer-package 1 (explicit) Optional reviewer package

Read the full file on GitHub · 56 lines

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. 12d ago First seen · 56 lines · 128 tokens per session scan A 206617957b0c

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academic-reviser is a skill published in the GitHub repository joshua-zyy/academic-paper-writer (110 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 128 tokens to every session and 805 once invoked, about $0.0006 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.