paper-reviewer

paper-reviewer is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from whoisraibolt/paper-skills. It costs 105 tokens per session (2,957 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A structured reviewer for scientific manuscripts before submission. It divides a paper into sections, has reviewers check specific parts against the full text, and combines their findings into one report.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review a research paper for problems supported by quoted evidence. It is designed for deep pre-submission checking of manuscripts.
Why use it?
It helps catch objective errors and actionable weaknesses that a single quick read may miss. It does not provide a score, ranking, or accept-or-reject recommendation.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions subagents; names the NotebookEdit tool; mentions Claude Code.

Good fit Use it to review a research paper for problems supported by quoted evidence. It is designed for deep pre-submission checking of manuscripts.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/whoisraibolt/paper-skills/paper-reviewer
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 whoisraibolt/paper-skills --skill paper-reviewer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/whoisraibolt/paper-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 105 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,957 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 $0.00105 $0.02957
Opus 5 $0.00053 $0.01478
Sonnet 5 $0.00021 $0.00591
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00296

Measured 12d ago against content hash 3512621aac07, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

paper-reviewer 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/paper-reviewer/SKILL.md · 278 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 278 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

paper-reviewer — deep pre-submission review

A reimplementation of the Paper Assistant Tool (PAT) architecture (Jayaram et al., Google Research, arXiv:2606.28277) on Claude Code subagents in place of Gemini Deep Think.

The premise from PAT, which is what makes this skill worth more than "read the paper and criticize it": a single reading pass spends its reasoning budget uniformly and shallowly. Segmenting the manuscript, giving each reviewer the whole text as context but only one segment to verify, then consolidating with deduplication and grounding checks, raises real-error detection substantially. On the Math/CS subset of the SPOT benchmark, this orchestration took the same model from 55.2% to 89.7% detection.

It produces no score, no ranking and no accept/reject recommendation. It produces objective errors and actionable improvements.

Writing counterpart: paper-writer. Writing and reviewing are separate passes by design; whoever writes does not approve their own text in the same context.


Stage 0 — Resolve the target

  1. If the user named a file, use it. Otherwise look for the most likely manuscript in the current directory (a .tex with \documentclass, or a long .md) and confirm with the user before spending agents if there is more than one candidate.
  2. Accepted formats are .tex, .md, .pdf and .docx, and source beats the rest. PAT lists PDF parsing failure among its three most reported limitations, and a .docx costs a conversion the source does not. If a .tex or .md exists, use it and ignore the compiled PDF.
  3. Read the whole manuscript before segmenting. Without that, the segmentation comes out wrong.
  4. Locate verification inputs, if they exist:
    • the .bib or reference file;
    • data, result tables or experiment outputs in the repository (for example data/outputs/), which allow checking number by number;
    • previous reviews, audits or referee reports (for example reviews/, response_*.md, HANDOFF.md), which serve to avoid repeating a point already resolved.

Read the full file on GitHub · 278 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 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 · 278 lines · 105 tokens per session scan A 3512621aac07

Subscribe to this mod's changes

paper-reviewer is a skill published in the GitHub repository whoisraibolt/paper-skills (1 stars, last pushed 16d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 105 tokens to every session and 2,957 once invoked, about $0.0005 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 2026-08-31.

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