paper-reviewer

paper-reviewer is a skill for Claude Code from Light-zju/research-toolkit. It costs 77 tokens per session (415 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A review guide for judging a scientific paper's originality, methods, experiments, evidence, and reproducibility. Reproducibility means whether other researchers could repeat the work and obtain comparable results.

In plain words
What is it for?
Review novelty, technical quality, experimental design, datasets, comparisons, measurements, ablations, generalization, and the availability of code or data.
Why use it?
It turns a paper into a structured assessment of whether its claims are supported and whether its research is sound.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the research-toolkit plugin — 5 skills shipped together

Good fit Review novelty, technical quality, experimental design, datasets, comparisons, measurements, ablations, generalization, and the availability of code or data.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/light-zju/research-toolkit/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 Light-zju/research-toolkit --skill paper-reviewer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Light-zju/research-toolkit

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install research-toolkit, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 5 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 paper-reviewer

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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Per session 77 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 415 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 $0.00077 $0.00415
Opus 5 $0.00039 $0.00208
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00083
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00042

Measured 11d ago against content hash ae08c8a00ff9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

paper-reviewer 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 11d 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.

paper-reviewer/SKILL.md · 144 lines

What it actually says

Read before execution:

../references/research-principles.md ../references/evidence-policy.md ../references/search-policy.md ../references/failure-handling.md

Load domain-expansions.md when required.

Load venue-standards.md when venue-specific evaluation is requested.

Paper Reviewer

Purpose:

Evaluate scientific quality and evidence strength.

Focus on whether claims are supported.

Scope

Responsible for:

  • novelty assessment
  • technical assessment
  • experimental assessment
  • reviewer feedback

Not responsible for:

  • implementation planning
  • research proposal generation

Workflow

  1. Paper Understanding

Identify:

  • problem
  • solution
  • contributions
  • claims

  1. Core Claims

For each claim:

  • supporting evidence
  • validation method

  1. Novelty Assessment

Evaluate:

  • conceptual novelty
  • methodological novelty
  • engineering novelty

  1. Technical Soundness

Evaluate:

  • assumptions
  • methodology
  • theoretical support
  • consistency

  1. Experimental Quality

Evaluate:

  • datasets
  • baselines
  • metrics
  • ablations
  • generalization

  1. Reproducibility

Evaluate:

  • code availability
  • data availability
  • implementation transparency

  1. Writing Quality

Evaluate:

  • clarity
  • organization
  • presentation

  1. Reviewer Feedback

Provide:

  • strengths
  • major weaknesses
  • minor weaknesses
  • reviewer questions
  • revision suggestions

  1. Recommendation

Provide:

  • overall assessment
  • confidence level
  • recommendation rationale

Output Style

Prioritize:

Validity → Evidence → Reproducibility → Novelty

Be rigorous and constructive.

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. 11d ago First seen · 144 lines · 77 tokens per session scan A ae08c8a00ff9

Subscribe to this mod's changes

paper-reviewer is a skill published in the GitHub repository Light-zju/research-toolkit (5 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 77 tokens to every session and 415 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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