scholar-evaluation

scholar-evaluation is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from silverstein/claude-scientific-skills-desktop. It costs 81 tokens per session (1,991 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of scholar-evaluation, MIT.

A structured method for assessing the quality of academic and research work. It can examine papers, literature reviews, proposals, methods, data analysis, and scholarly writing using several quality criteria.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to evaluate research papers, literature reviews, proposals, theses, methods, data analysis, and academic writing.
Why use it?
It turns a broad review into a consistent assessment and makes feedback easier to organize and compare.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to evaluate research papers, literature reviews, proposals, theses, methods, data analysis, and academic writing.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/silverstein/claude-scientific-skills-desktop/scholar-evaluation
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 scholar-evaluation
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 81 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,991 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 80% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00081 $0.01991
Opus 5 $0.00041 $0.00996
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00398
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00199

Measured 9d ago against content hash f5c775754702, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

scholar-evaluation 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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/calculate_scores.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.

Origin

This is a copy

80% identical to scholar-evaluation — 65 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

corpus/scholar-evaluation/SKILL.md · 238 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 238 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Scholar Evaluation

Overview

Apply the ScholarEval framework to systematically evaluate scholarly and research work. This skill provides structured evaluation methodology based on peer-reviewed research assessment criteria, enabling comprehensive analysis of academic papers, research proposals, literature reviews, and scholarly writing across multiple quality dimensions.

When to Use This Skill

Use this skill when:

  • Evaluating research papers for quality and rigor
  • Assessing literature review comprehensiveness and quality
  • Reviewing research methodology design
  • Scoring data analysis approaches
  • Evaluating scholarly writing and presentation
  • Providing structured feedback on academic work
  • Benchmarking research quality against established criteria

Evaluation Workflow

Step 1: Initial Assessment and Scope Definition

Begin by identifying the type of scholarly work being evaluated and the evaluation scope:

Work Types:

  • Full research paper (empirical, theoretical, or review)
  • Research proposal or protocol
  • Literature review (systematic, narrative, or scoping)
  • Thesis or dissertation chapter
  • Conference abstract or short paper

Evaluation Scope:

  • Comprehensive (all dimensions)
  • Targeted (specific aspects like methodology or writing)
  • Comparative (benchmarking against other work)

Ask the user to clarify if the scope is ambiguous.

Step 2: Dimension-Based Evaluation

Systematically evaluate the work across the ScholarEval dimensions. For each applicable dimension, assess quality, identify strengths and weaknesses, and provide scores where appropriate.

Refer to references/evaluation_framework.md for detailed criteria and rubrics for each dimension.

Core Evaluation Dimensions:

  1. Problem Formulation & Research Questions

    • Clarity and specificity of research questions
    • Theoretical or practical significance
    • Feasibility and scope appropriateness
    • Novelty and contribution potential
  2. Literature Review

    • Comprehensiveness of coverage
    • Critical synthesis vs. mere summarization
    • Identification of research gaps
    • Currency and relevance of sources
    • Proper contextualization

Read the full file on GitHub · 238 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 · 238 lines · 81 tokens per session scan A f5c775754702

Subscribe to this mod's changes

scholar-evaluation is a skill published in the GitHub repository silverstein/claude-scientific-skills-desktop (22 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 81 tokens to every session and 1,991 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 80% identical to scholar-evaluation, differing in 65 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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