paper-background-research

paper-background-research is a command for Claude Code, Cursor from AI-Learning-Gems/AI-Learning-Gems.github.io. It costs 0 tokens per session (225 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for researching and explaining the background of an academic paper. It covers the paper’s problem, methods, prerequisites, related work, limitations, and practical lessons.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to learn what a paper contributes, what knowledge it assumes, how it relates to earlier work, and how its methods may be used.
Why use it?
It helps readers understand unfamiliar research without having to reconstruct its context from many separate sources.

Command for Claude CodeCursor

Written for Cursor and Claude Code: installed under .cursor/, but also a Claude Code command (commands/*.md).

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/ai-learning-gems/ai-learning-gems.github.io/paper-background-research
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AI-Learning-Gems/AI-Learning-Gems.github.io

Made for: Claude Code, Cursor.

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Per session 0 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 225 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00000 $0.00225
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00112
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00045
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00022

Measured 6d ago against content hash dcd80b012a82, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

paper-background-research 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 6d 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.

.cursor/commands/paper-background-research.md · 33 lines

What it actually says

Research and explain the background for the given academic paper:

Paper Understanding

  • Summarize the paper's key contributions in 2-3 sentences
  • Identify the core problem being solved and why it matters
  • Extract the main equations, algorithms, or methods
  • Note any assumptions or limitations the authors mention

Prerequisites & Context

  • List the prerequisite knowledge needed to understand the paper
  • Explain unfamiliar terminology or notation
  • Connect to foundational concepts
  • Identify the paper's intellectual lineage (what work it builds on)
  • Note contemporary or subsequent papers that extend this work
  • Highlight key differences from competing approaches

Critical Analysis

  • Identify strengths and weaknesses of the proposed approach
  • Note any gaps between theory and experiments
  • Suggest potential extensions or open questions

Practical Takeaways

  • Summarize what a practitioner should take away
  • Note any implementation details or tricks mentioned
  • Highlight hyperparameters or design choices that matter

Citation Format

  • Use standard academic citation format
  • Include arXiv links where available
  • Note publication venue and year
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. 6d ago First seen · 33 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A dcd80b012a82

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paper-background-research is a command published in the GitHub repository AI-Learning-Gems/AI-Learning-Gems.github.io (22 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 225 tokens. 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.