peer-review

peer-review is a skill for Claude Code from TobiasBlask/open-paper-machine. It costs 71 tokens per session (4,549 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of peer-review, MIT.

A checklist-based process for reviewing scientific papers and grant proposals. It examines study methods, statistics, ethics, reproducibility, reporting guidelines, and the clarity of the writing.

In plain words
What is it for?
Writing formal peer reviews, assessing experimental design and statistical analysis, checking standards such as CONSORT, STROBE, and PRISMA, and reviewing data availability and reproducibility.
Why use it?
It helps reviewers find problems that could affect whether research is reliable, understandable, or ready for publication. It also supports constructive feedback for revisions.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Needs its repository: it runs a file that does not travel with it, so clone the repository first. The line is python scripts/generate_schematic.py "your diagram description" -o figures/output.png.

Part of the open-academic-paper-machine plugin — 33 skills, 21 commands, 4 agents shipped together

Good fit Writing formal peer reviews, assessing experimental design and statistical analysis, checking standards such as CONSORT, STROBE, and PRISMA, and reviewing data availability and reproducibility.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/TobiasBlask/open-paper-machine
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/tobiasblask/open-paper-machine/peer-review

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install open-academic-paper-machine, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 33 skills, 21 commands, 4 agents.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for peer-review

README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for peer-review

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Per session 71 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,549 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 95% 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 $0.00071 $0.04549
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.02275
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00910
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00455

Measured 10d ago against content hash 76b273f9fa26, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, 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 10d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

95% identical to peer-review — 6 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.

scientific-skills/peer-review/SKILL.md · 570 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 570 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

Visual Enhancement with Scientific Schematics

When creating documents with this skill, always consider adding scientific diagrams and schematics to enhance visual communication.

If your document does not already contain schematics or diagrams:

  • Use the scientific-schematics skill to generate AI-powered publication-quality diagrams
  • Simply describe your desired diagram in natural language
  • Nano Banana Pro will automatically generate, review, and refine the schematic

For new documents: Scientific schematics should be generated by default to visually represent key concepts, workflows, architectures, or relationships described in the text.

How to generate schematics:

python scripts/generate_schematic.py "your diagram description" -o figures/output.png

The AI will automatically:

  • Create publication-quality images with proper formatting
  • Review and refine through multiple iterations
  • Ensure accessibility (colorblind-friendly, high contrast)
  • Save outputs in the figures/ directory

When to add schematics:

  • Peer review workflow diagrams
  • Evaluation criteria decision trees
  • Review process flowcharts
  • Methodology assessment frameworks
  • Quality assessment visualizations
  • Reporting guidelines compliance diagrams
  • Any complex concept that benefits from visualization

Read the full file on GitHub · 570 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. 10d ago First seen · 570 lines · 71 tokens per session scan A 76b273f9fa26

Subscribe to this mod's changes

peer-review is a skill published in the GitHub repository TobiasBlask/open-paper-machine (18 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 71 tokens to every session and 4,549 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 95% identical to peer-review, differing in 6 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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