paper-reader

paper-reader is a plugin for Claude Code from hoangsonww/AI-News-Briefing. Its manifest loads nothing; the 1 skill it bundles cost 28 tokens per session together, scanned A, original, MIT.

A research-paper tool connected to arXiv and Semantic Scholar, two services that provide access to academic papers. It finds recent AI and machine-learning papers, summarizes them, and explains their methods.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to discover recent AI research, summarize paper abstracts, and turn technical methodology into a clearer explanation.
Why use it?
It makes technical research easier to scan and understand without reading every paper in full.

Plugin for Claude Code

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.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add hoangsonww/AI-News-Briefing
agentmods
npx agentmods add plugins/hoangsonww/ai-news-briefing/paper-reader
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/hoangsonww/AI-News-Briefing

Made for: Claude Code.

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A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/plugins/hoangsonww/ai-news-briefing/paper-reader.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/plugins/hoangsonww/ai-news-briefing/paper-reader)
Your own site
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Per session not measured What this adds to a session before it is invoked.
When invoked not measured The manifest loads nothing itself; its 1 skill cost 28 tokens a session between them.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Security

Grade A, and why

paper-reader 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 5d 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.

claude-plugins/paper-reader/.claude-plugin/plugin.json · 17 lines

What it actually says

{
  "name": "paper-reader",
  "description": "Connects to ArXiv and Semantic Scholar to find the latest AI/ML research papers, summarize their abstracts, and explain the methodology.",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "author": {
    "name": "Research Ops",
    "url": "https://github.com/hoangsonww"
  },
  "homepage": "https://github.com/hoangsonww/AI-News-Briefing",
  "repository": {
    "type": "git",
    "url": "https://github.com/hoangsonww/AI-News-Briefing.git"
  },
  "license": "MIT",
  "keywords": ["research", "papers", "arxiv", "ai", "machine-learning"],
  "categories": ["research", "education", "ai"]
}
Contents

What it installs

The manifest is a name and a version. 1 skill travel with it, and installing the plugin installs all of them — 28 tokens a session between them. Each is measured on its own page, and each can be installed alone.

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. 5d ago First seen · 17 lines scan A a30116d7db35

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paper-reader is a plugin published in the GitHub repository hoangsonww/AI-News-Briefing (41 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. Its token cost is not measured: this kind of file is read by the harness, not the model. 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.