reflect-paper

reflect-paper is a skill for Claude Code from ShaishavMaisuria/research-paper-lifecycle-skills. It costs 127 tokens per session (1,566 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A two-part review process for research-paper drafts: one pass checks technical accuracy and evidence, while the other checks writing and structure.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before submission to critique a paper, identify technical and writing issues, and create a combined revision plan.
Why use it?
It separates correctness concerns from presentation concerns, so problems with claims, citations, venue fit, clarity, or reader flow are less likely to be overlooked.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the paper-writing plugin — 7 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it before submission to critique a paper, identify technical and writing issues, and create a combined revision plan.

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

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install paper-writing, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 7 skills.

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Per session 127 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,566 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 $0.00127 $0.01566
Opus 5 $0.00063 $0.00783
Sonnet 5 $0.00025 $0.00313
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00157

Measured 12d ago against content hash fdecf1643627, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

reflect-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/reflect-paper/SKILL.md · 173 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 173 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Reflect Paper

Run a structured reflection loop over a research-paper draft. Treat this as two separate perspectives, then merge them into one revision plan:

  • Researcher pass — technical truth, evidence, citations, venue fit, novelty, limitations, reviewer risk.
  • Writer pass — narrative, framing, section structure, abstract, related work placement, prose, figures/tables, reader flow.

This is an orchestration skill: it calls on sibling skills when their narrower checks are needed, but it owns the reflection protocol and final synthesis.

If the runtime supports delegated agents or subagents, split the reflection into two independent workers:

  1. Send a Researcher worker the draft, target venue/context, and the Researcher pass checklist only.
  2. Send a Writer worker the draft, target venue/context, and the Writer pass checklist only.
  3. Merge both outputs yourself; do not let either worker decide the final verdict alone.

If delegation is unavailable, run the same passes sequentially. Keep separate notes for each pass so technical-risk findings do not flatten writing feedback, and writing polish does not hide correctness concerns.

When to use

  • "Reflect on this paper before I submit"
  • "Run a research agent and writer agent on my draft"
  • "Critique this draft from both technical and writing angles"
  • "Give me a revision plan"
  • "What should I fix before sending this to my advisor / reviewers?"
  • "Do a final paper reflection pass"

Inputs

  • The draft: LaTeX source, PDF, markdown, Word-exported text, or pasted sections.
  • Optional: target venue or CFP URL.
  • Optional: bibliography file, related-work notes, reviews, or advisor feedback.
  • Optional: the user's current goal, such as submission readiness, camera-ready polish, rebuttal, or presentation prep.

Process

1. Scope The Reflection

Identify the lifecycle stage and what "good" means for this pass:

Stage Primary concern
Early draft Missing contribution, weak framing, incomplete evidence.
Pre-submission Venue fit, page budget, anonymization, citation reliability, reviewer risk.
Rebuttal Review coverage, evidence anchors, tone, response budget.
Camera-ready Required final-file steps, de-anonymization, acknowledgments, source consistency.
Presentation Talk story, timing, Q&A risk, slide/poster readability.

Read the full file on GitHub · 173 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 · 173 lines · 127 tokens per session scan A fdecf1643627

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reflect-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 127 tokens to every session and 1,566 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.

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