simulate-reviewers

simulate-reviewers is a skill for Claude Code from ShaishavMaisuria/research-paper-lifecycle-skills. It costs 239 tokens per session (2,851 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A simulated peer review of a research paper that uses the standards of a chosen conference or publication venue. Peer review is the process researchers use to evaluate work before publication.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review a paper draft, score its risks for a specific venue such as NeurIPS, and identify what to fix before submission.
Why use it?
It reveals weaknesses and likely objections before real reviewers see the paper.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the paper-submission plugin — 12 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to review a paper draft, score its risks for a specific venue such as NeurIPS, and identify what to fix before submission.

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

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install paper-submission, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 12 skills.

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Per session 239 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,851 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 $0.00239 $0.02851
Opus 5 $0.00120 $0.01425
Sonnet 5 $0.00048 $0.00570
Haiku 4.5 $0.00024 $0.00285

Measured 12d ago against content hash a3474a63d6ea, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

simulate-reviewers 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 2 executable files (scripts/aggregate_scores.py, scripts/review_form.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/simulate-reviewers/SKILL.md · 212 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 212 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Simulate Reviewers

Run a paper through a simulated, venue-calibrated review panel before submission. A NeurIPS main-track reviewer and a SIGSPATIAL demo-track judge reject for different reasons at different thresholds — this skill reproduces that difference: persona-driven weakness hunting, rubric scoring on the venue's own scale, and a deterministic decision-risk readout that tells the authors what to fix while there is still time.

When to use

  • "What would reviewers say about this paper?" / "simulate a review"
  • "Review this like a harsh NeurIPS reviewer" / "what will Reviewer 2 hate?"
  • "Is this good enough for KDD, or should I aim for the short track?"
  • "Find the weaknesses before the reviewers do" / "red-team my submission"
  • After preflight-check passes (format is clean) but before submitting — this skill judges content, preflight judges compliance.

Inputs

  1. The paper: a .tex source tree, a PDF, or a draft in any readable form. Process it transiently — never copy paper text into the repo.
  2. A venue profile: venues/conferences/<venue>-<year>.yml (schema in venues/schema.yml). No profile? Create one with parse-cfp first, or run against the nearest family default and say so.
  3. The target track (page limits and reviewer expectations differ — ask).

Process

  1. Build the calibrated review packet. Run:

    python3 scripts/review_form.py venues/conferences/<venue>-<year>.yml \
        --track "<track>"
    

    This is deterministic and offline. It merges the family profile and emits the panel (personas + harshness), the venue score scale with its borderline threshold, the rubric, the per-reviewer form skeleton, and a scores.json template. Add --json for machine-readable output. Exit codes: 0 ok, 2 missing/unparsable profile or unknown track.

  2. Re-verify against the live CFP — mandatory. Profiles and the script's scale anchors are historical norms, never ground truth. Fetch the profile's cfp_url (and reviewer-guidelines page if linked) and confirm: review scale and form, blind level, rebuttal format, track expectations. If anything differs, update the profile YAML, note the discrepancy in the report, and prefer the live facts. Label every venue fact you state with a confidence tag and a clickable source: verified-live / corroborated / inferred-from-family / needs-verification. A scale number quoted to the user with no source is a bug, not a convenience.

Read the full file on GitHub · 212 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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 · 212 lines · 239 tokens per session scan A a3474a63d6ea

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simulate-reviewers 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 239 tokens to every session and 2,851 once invoked, about $0.0012 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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