analyze-positioning

analyze-positioning is a command for Claude Code from TobiasBlask/open-paper-machine. It costs 41 tokens per session (286 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command that compares a research paper with the most similar existing papers. It creates a comparison table and drafts an explanation of what the paper contributes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to analyze related work, clarify methodological differences, and improve the contribution and positioning sections of a paper.
Why use it?
It helps authors show why their work is different and worth reading. This makes gaps and likely reviewer objections easier to address.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: $ARGUMENTS substitution.

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

Good fit Use it to analyze related work, clarify methodological differences, and improve the contribution and positioning sections of a paper.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/tobiasblask/open-paper-machine/analyze-positioning
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/TobiasBlask/open-paper-machine

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.

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Per session 41 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 286 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 $0.00041 $0.00286
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.00143
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00057
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00029

Measured 7d ago against content hash 43de853bb100, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

analyze-positioning 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 7d 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.

commands/analyze-positioning.md · 32 lines

What it actually says

Analyze Positioning: $ARGUMENTS

Activate the positioning-engine skill. Read skills/positioning-engine/SKILL.md in full.

Execute the complete 5-step positioning analysis:

  1. IDENTIFY the 5-10 closest competitor papers (from references + literature base)
  2. BUILD differentiation matrix across 6-10 key dimensions
  3. ANALYZE unique positioning, gaps, and potential reviewer challenges
  4. GENERATE draft positioning paragraph + refined contribution statement
  5. SAVE to positioning_analysis.md

Input

$ARGUMENTS can be:

  • Empty — analyzes the current draft against its own references
  • Paper references (e.g., "compare against Wang2024, Smith2023, Chen2024")
  • Aspect to focus on (e.g., "focus on methodological differentiation")

Output

  • positioning_analysis.md — full analysis with differentiation matrix, positioning assessment, draft paragraph, and refined contribution statement
  • Ready-to-insert positioning paragraph for Introduction / Related Work
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. 7d ago First seen · 32 lines · 41 tokens per session scan A 43de853bb100

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analyze-positioning is a command published in the GitHub repository TobiasBlask/open-paper-machine (18 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 41 tokens to every session and 286 once invoked, about $0.0002 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.