peer-review

peer-review is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from silverstein/claude-scientific-skills-desktop. It costs 35 tokens per session (2,856 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A structured toolkit for reviewing scientific papers and grant proposals. It covers research methods, statistics, experimental design, reproducibility, ethics, figures, and reporting standards.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to assess manuscripts or grant applications, check statistical analyses and reporting guidelines, and evaluate whether results and data can be reproduced.
Why use it?
It gives reviewers a consistent checklist for finding weaknesses that may otherwise be missed. It also helps turn criticism into clear, constructive feedback.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to assess manuscripts or grant applications, check statistical analyses and reporting guidelines, and evaluate whether results and data can be reproduced.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/silverstein/claude-scientific-skills-desktop/peer-review
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 silverstein/claude-scientific-skills-desktop --skill peer-review
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/silverstein/claude-scientific-skills-desktop

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 35 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,856 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 $0.00035 $0.02856
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.01428
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00571
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00286

Measured 9d ago against content hash 4ee7a6517fed, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

peer-review 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 9d 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.

corpus/peer-review/SKILL.md · 376 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 376 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Scientific Critical Evaluation and Peer Review

Overview

Peer review is a systematic process for evaluating scientific manuscripts. Assess methodology, statistics, design, reproducibility, ethics, and reporting standards. Apply this skill for manuscript and grant review across disciplines with constructive, rigorous evaluation.

When to Use This Skill

This skill should be used when:

  • Conducting peer review of scientific manuscripts for journals
  • Evaluating grant proposals and research applications
  • Assessing methodology and experimental design rigor
  • Reviewing statistical analyses and reporting standards
  • Evaluating reproducibility and data availability
  • Checking compliance with reporting guidelines (CONSORT, STROBE, PRISMA)
  • Providing constructive feedback on scientific writing

Peer Review Workflow

Conduct peer review systematically through the following stages, adapting depth and focus based on the manuscript type and discipline.

Stage 1: Initial Assessment

Begin with a high-level evaluation to determine the manuscript's scope, novelty, and overall quality.

Key Questions:

  • What is the central research question or hypothesis?
  • What are the main findings and conclusions?
  • Is the work scientifically sound and significant?
  • Is the work appropriate for the intended venue?
  • Are there any immediate major flaws that would preclude publication?

Output: Brief summary (2-3 sentences) capturing the manuscript's essence and initial impression.

Stage 2: Detailed Section-by-Section Review

Conduct a thorough evaluation of each manuscript section, documenting specific concerns and strengths.

Abstract and Title
  • Accuracy: Does the abstract accurately reflect the study's content and conclusions?
  • Clarity: Is the title specific, accurate, and informative?
  • Completeness: Are key findings and methods summarized appropriately?
  • Accessibility: Is the abstract comprehensible to a broad scientific audience?
Introduction
  • Context: Is the background information adequate and current?
  • Rationale: Is the research question clearly motivated and justified?
  • Novelty: Is the work's originality and significance clearly articulated?
  • Literature: Are relevant prior studies appropriately cited?
  • Objectives: Are research aims/hypotheses clearly stated?

Read the full file on GitHub · 376 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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. 9d ago First seen · 376 lines · 35 tokens per session scan A 4ee7a6517fed

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peer-review is a skill published in the GitHub repository silverstein/claude-scientific-skills-desktop (22 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 35 tokens to every session and 2,856 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-09-03.

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