assess-paper

assess-paper is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from ShaishavMaisuria/research-paper-lifecycle-skills. It costs 199 tokens per session (1,941 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A single report on the current condition of a research paper, covering strengths, risks, scores, and next steps. It combines checks for compliance, research integrity, citations, formatting, and reviewer concerns.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before or during paper preparation to see how far the draft is from being ready, or to give a co-author or advisor a quick status report.
Why use it?
It gives an author one understandable overview instead of requiring them to interpret several separate checks. It identifies what needs attention but does not edit or submit the paper.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it before or during paper preparation to see how far the draft is from being ready, or to give a co-author or advisor a quick status report.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/shaishavmaisuria/research-paper-lifecycle-skills/assess-paper
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 ShaishavMaisuria/research-paper-lifecycle-skills --skill assess-paper
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ShaishavMaisuria/research-paper-lifecycle-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 199 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,941 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 $0.00199 $0.01941
Opus 5 $0.00100 $0.00971
Sonnet 5 $0.00040 $0.00388
Haiku 4.5 $0.00020 $0.00194

Measured 12d ago against content hash c05b65833d7c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

assess-paper 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.

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/assess-paper/SKILL.md · 110 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 110 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Assess Paper

The single command that tells an author where they stand and explains why, so a non-expert isn't left staring at five separate tool outputs. It does not re-implement any check; it runs the specialist skills and turns their results into one readable Paper Health Report that leads with strengths, then risks, then a ranked to-do list.

Pairs with orchestrate-paper (which drives the full lifecycle) — assess-paper is the read-only "where am I right now" snapshot you can run at any point. Copilot, not pilot: it reports and explains, it never edits the paper or submits anything.

When to use

  • The author wants one overview instead of running five skills and stitching the results together.
  • Early ("how far off am I?") or late ("am I ready to submit?").
  • A co-author or advisor wants a quick, honest state-of-the-paper.

When NOT to use it (say this plainly)

  • You want one specific check — run that skill directly (e.g. just citations → verify-citations).
  • You want fixes applied — this skill only diagnoses; hand each fix to the skill that owns it.
  • You want an acceptance probability or award forecast — no tool can give one honestly; this skill refuses to.

Inputs

  • The draft: a .tex source tree, a compiled PDF, or a readable draft. Processed transiently — never copied into this repo.
  • The target venue and track (what counts as "ready" differs by venue). Ask if unstated; run against the nearest family default and say so if no profile exists.
  • Optional: .paper-memory/profile.yml (positioning) and lessons.md (recurring weaknesses), if present.

What it consolidates

Dimension Skill it runs What it contributes to the report
Will it get desk-rejected? preflight-check compliance blockers (page limit, anonymization, missing sections)
Are the citations real? verify-citations fabricated / retracted / duplicate references
Is it original? check-originality plagiarism / self-recycling overlap
Does it match strong work at the venue? benchmark-paper venue-fit scorecard + weakest dimensions
What will reviewers say? simulate-reviewers strengths, weaknesses, rubric scores, decision-risk

Read the full file on GitHub · 110 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 · 110 lines · 199 tokens per session scan A c05b65833d7c

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assess-paper is a skill published in the GitHub repository ShaishavMaisuria/research-paper-lifecycle-skills (42 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 199 tokens to every session and 1,941 once invoked, about $0.0010 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.

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