Agent skill

Academic Paper Reviewer

by Imbad0202 in Imbad0202/academic-research-skills

Simulates a journal peer review of a manuscript with a five-seat reviewer panel, an editorial synthesizer and several review modes.

Custom licenceAuto-check passedResearch & Science

Install Academic Paper Reviewer

skills CLI
$ npx skills add Imbad0202/academic-research-skills --skill academic-paper-reviewer -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install Imbad0202/academic-research-skills academic-paper-reviewer --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Imbad0202/academic-research-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/academic-paper-reviewer .claude/skills/academic-paper-reviewer && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
academic-paper-reviewer
GitHub stars
51k
Token cost
~11k tokens
SKILL.md length
4,405 words
Files
29 (incl. references)
Skills in repo
5
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
Custom licence

At a glance

Simulates a journal peer review of a manuscript with a five-seat reviewer panel, an editorial synthesizer and several review modes.

  • Works in 3 steps: Added Devil's Advocate Reviewer —… → Added re-review mode — verification… → Expanded review team from 4 to 5 members
  • Getting a simulated peer review of a manuscript before submission
  • SKILL.md covers Quick Start, Pasted and retrieved text is…, Trigger Conditions and Agent Team (7 Agents), plus 14 more sections
  • Calls python3

What it does

The skill works out the paper's field, then sets up four reviewer identities (a journal-fit reviewer and three peer reviewers) and adds a fixed Devil's Advocate as the fifth seat. The five perspectives cover journal fit, methodology, domain expertise, cross-disciplinary viewpoints and challenges to the core argument. A separate editorial synthesizer combines them into a structured Editorial Decision and a Revision Roadmap.

It offers several modes: a full review, a re-review that checks whether revisions address earlier comments, a quick assessment, a methodology focus, a Socratic guided mode and a calibration mode for measuring reviewer accuracy. Seven agent files, mode protocols, editorial decision standards, quality rubrics and worked examples ship with it, and the instructions include routing rules for choosing between sibling skills. The role separation organizes perspectives and is not a claim of independent error processes.

When your agent uses it

  • Getting a simulated peer review of a manuscript before submission
  • Checking whether a revised paper addresses the reviewers' comments
  • Stress-testing the main argument of a paper with a devil's advocate pass
  • Turning review feedback into a revision roadmap

Example prompts

  • “Review my paper in ./drafts/manuscript.pdf the way a journal reviewer panel would.”
  • “Do a re-review of my revised manuscript against the previous reviewer comments.”
  • “Give me a quick assessment of the methodology in this paper.”

Workflow steps

3 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. Added Devil's Advocate Reviewer — specifically challenges core arguments, detects logical fallacies, and identifies the strongest…
  2. Added re-review mode — verification review, focused on checking whether revisions address the review comments
  3. Expanded review team from 4 to 5 members

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit ebc21bf. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    Shell commands in SKILL.md call:

    • python3

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Academic Paper Reviewer loads about 11k tokens when it runs, and up to ~70k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 226 tokens; SKILL.md has 4,405 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~226
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~11k
With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them
~70k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

Its licence (Custom licence) doesn't allow us to republish the file, so here is its outline and opening line. It has 4,405 words (~11,076 tokens).

“Simulates a complete international journal peer review process: automatically identifies the paper's field, dynamically configures 4 card-backed identities (Journal-Fit Reviewer + 3 peer reviewers), and adds the fixed Devil's Advocate as the fifth execution seat. The five role-separated perspectives cover…”

— opening of SKILL.md by Imbad0202, Custom licence
name
academic-paper-reviewer
metadata.version
1.11.1
metadata.last_updated
2026-08-15
metadata.status
active
metadata.data_access_level
raw
metadata.task_type
open-ended
metadata.related_skills
academic-paper, academic-pipeline

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

SKILL.md and 28 other files (references) in academic-paper-reviewer of Imbad0202/academic-research-skills.

  • SKILL.md
  • agents/devils_advocate_reviewer_agent.md
  • agents/domain_reviewer_agent.md
  • agents/editorial_synthesizer_agent.md
  • agents/eic_agent.md
  • agents/field_analyst_agent.md
  • agents/methodology_reviewer_agent.md
  • agents/perspective_reviewer_agent.md
  • examples/hei_paper_review_example.md
  • examples/interdisciplinary_review_example.md
  • examples/subclaim_decomposition_example.md
  • references/calibration_mode_protocol.md
  • references/changelog.md
  • references/editorial_decision_standards.md
  • references/guided_mode_protocol.md
  • references/integration_guide.md
  • references/quality_rubrics.md
  • references/re_review_mode_protocol.md
  • … and 11 more

Open the folder on GitHubat commit ebc21bf

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Questions about Academic Paper Reviewer

What does Academic Paper Reviewer do?

Simulates a journal peer review of a manuscript with a five-seat reviewer panel, an editorial synthesizer and several review modes. The skill works out the paper's field, then sets up four reviewer identities (a journal-fit reviewer and three peer reviewers) and adds a fixed Devil's Advocate as the fifth seat. The five perspectives cover journal fit, methodology, domain expertise, cross-disciplinary viewpoints and challenges to the core argument.

When should I use Academic Paper Reviewer?

Academic Paper Reviewer fits situations like: getting a simulated peer review of a manuscript before submission; checking whether a revised paper addresses the reviewers' comments; stress-testing the main argument of a paper with a devil's advocate pass; turning review feedback into a revision roadmap.

How do I install Academic Paper Reviewer in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add Imbad0202/academic-research-skills --skill academic-paper-reviewer -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (academic-paper-reviewer in Imbad0202/academic-research-skills) into .claude/skills/academic-paper-reviewer in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Academic Paper Reviewer in Codex?

Run `npx skills add Imbad0202/academic-research-skills --skill academic-paper-reviewer -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (academic-paper-reviewer in Imbad0202/academic-research-skills) into .agents/skills/academic-paper-reviewer in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Academic Paper Reviewer in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add Imbad0202/academic-research-skills --skill academic-paper-reviewer -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/academic-paper-reviewer, .gemini/skills/academic-paper-reviewer, .github/skills/academic-paper-reviewer and .opencode/skills/academic-paper-reviewer in your project.

What does Academic Paper Reviewer need to run?

Going by SKILL.md and its folder, Academic Paper Reviewer needs the command-line tools its instructions call (python3).

Does Academic Paper Reviewer access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Academic Paper Reviewer safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Academic Paper Reviewer use?

Academic Paper Reviewer has a licence file (the repository's licence) that doesn't match a standard licence. Read it on GitHub before reusing the skill.

How many tokens does Academic Paper Reviewer use?

About 11k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 44k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full. Its references folder adds about 59k tokens, read only when the agent opens those files.

What are the alternatives to Academic Paper Reviewer?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Academic Paper Reviewer: Benchmark Paper Template (HKUSTDial/Supervisor-Skills, 8.8k stars), Academic Research Suite for Codex (Imbad0202/academic-research-skills-codex, 12k stars), Social Science Paper Writing (fakerqwq/social-science-paper-writing-skill, 382 stars) and LLM Reviewer Bias Defense (Michael-Jiahao-Zhang/game-the-llm-reviewer, 206 stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Academic Paper Reviewer?

Imbad0202 (a GitHub user) maintains it in Imbad0202/academic-research-skills, which has 51,242 GitHub stars. The repository holds 5 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 10, 2026.

Source: Imbad0202/academic-research-skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.