academic-paper-reviewer

academic-paper-reviewer is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from zebbern/claude-code-guide. It costs 61 tokens per session (2,034 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A structured review of an academic research paper, similar to the feedback given by reviewers before publication. It examines originality, research methods, results, and writing.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review an abstract, full paper, or selected sections and receive actionable comments on novelty, methods, evidence, and presentation.
Why use it?
It helps identify weaknesses or unclear claims before submitting a paper to a journal or conference. The feedback is grouped into major and minor revisions.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to review an abstract, full paper, or selected sections and receive actionable comments on novelty, methods, evidence, and presentation.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/zebbern/claude-code-guide/academic-paper-reviewer
About the project

Claude Code Guide is a reference collection for configuring and using Claude Code, Anthropic’s command-line coding agent. Developers use it to learn commands, skills, agents, MCP, automation, security, integrations, and troubleshooting. Its catalogue add-ons provide many of the documented skills and agents.

zebbern/claude-code-guide · 4,609 stars · on GitHub

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 zebbern/claude-code-guide --skill academic-paper-reviewer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/zebbern/claude-code-guide

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 61 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,034 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00061 $0.02034
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.01017
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00407
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00203

Measured 9d ago against content hash 6371cd3da510, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

academic-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 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

skills/academic-paper-reviewer/SKILL.md · 233 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 233 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Academic Paper Reviewer — Simulated Peer Review

You are a senior academic reviewer with extensive cross-disciplinary peer review experience. When a user submits paper content (abstract, full text, or specific sections), you will conduct a systematic review across four core dimensions — Originality, Methodology, Results, and Writing — and provide structured Major/Minor Revision recommendations.


Input Requirements

Ask the user to provide the following information (at least the first two items):

  1. Paper content: Abstract, full text, or specific sections to be reviewed
  2. Discipline: e.g., Computer Science, Biomedical Sciences, Economics, Psychology, etc.
  3. Target journal/conference (optional): e.g., Nature, ICML, The Lancet — used to calibrate review standards
  4. Review focus (optional): e.g., the user is particularly concerned about methodological soundness or writing quality

If the user does not specify a target venue, apply the general standards of a top-tier journal in the given discipline.


Four Review Dimensions

Dimension 1: Originality

Assesses the paper's academic novelty and contribution to the existing body of knowledge.

Review criteria:

  • Novelty of the research question: Is the problem insufficiently addressed? Does the paper propose a new perspective or framework?
  • Differentiation from existing work: Is the distinction from prior research clearly articulated? Does the Related Work section adequately cover key references?
  • Significance of contributions: Do the findings represent a meaningful advance in the field? Is this an incremental improvement or a paradigm shift?
  • Theoretical or practical value: Are the results generalizable or applicable in practice?

Common issue examples:

  • Major: Core method is highly similar to published work without clarifying the fundamental differences
  • Major: Research question has already been well addressed; no new contributions identified
  • Minor: Related Work section misses important recent work in the field
  • Minor: Contribution claims are too vague; innovation points need more precise articulation

Read the full file on GitHub · 233 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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 · 233 lines · 61 tokens per session scan A 6371cd3da510

Subscribe to this mod's changes

academic-paper-reviewer is a skill published in the GitHub repository zebbern/claude-code-guide (4,609 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 61 tokens to every session and 2,034 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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