claude-paper-study

claude-paper-study is a skill for Claude Code from alaliqing/claude-paper. It costs 28 tokens per session (2,545 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guided workflow for reading, analyzing, and deeply understanding a research paper in PDF form. It creates reusable study materials in the language used by the reader.

In plain words
What is it for?
Studying papers, building paper notes and explanations, and developing research-level understanding from a PDF.
Why use it?
It turns a paper into a structured learning process rather than leaving the reader to work through the PDF without guidance.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

Good fit Studying papers, building paper notes and explanations, and developing research-level understanding from a PDF.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/alaliqing/claude-paper/claude-paper-study
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 alaliqing/claude-paper --skill claude-paper-study
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/alaliqing/claude-paper

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 28 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,545 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 $0.00028 $0.02545
Opus 5 $0.00014 $0.01273
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00509
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00254

Measured 10d ago against content hash 6d964db548ab, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

claude-paper-study 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 10d 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:

  • study — 94% identical, 32 lines differ
.agents/skills/claude-paper-study/SKILL.md · 474 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 474 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Cross-Agent Compatibility

This file is generated from the existing Claude Paper Skill. Its workflow and output requirements are unchanged; only equivalent host metadata, the plugin-root variable, and cross-skill invocation are adapted.

Resolve CLAUDE_PAPER_PLUGIN_ROOT to the absolute plugin/ directory in this package before each shell invocation. From this SKILL.md, that directory is ../../../plugin. Treat every ${CLAUDE_PAPER_PLUGIN_ROOT} reference below as that resolved absolute directory. Do not substitute the current workspace root.

When this workflow asks to launch the viewer, load and follow the claude-paper-webui skill.


Paper Study Workflow

Invoke this skill with a paper PDF path.

Language Detection: Detect the user's language from their input and generate ALL materials in that language.

  • Example: User says "我们学习一下这篇论文吧" → Generate materials in Chinese
  • Example: User says "Let's study this paper" → Generate materials in English

Core Philosophy

Primary Objective: Facilitate deep conceptual understanding and research-level thinking.

Secondary Objective: Create a structured, reusable paper knowledge system.

This workflow is not just for summarizing — it builds a learning environment around the paper.


Step 0: Check Dependencies (First Run Only)

if [ ! -f "${CLAUDE_PAPER_PLUGIN_ROOT}/.installed" ]; then
  echo "First run - installing dependencies..."
  cd "${CLAUDE_PAPER_PLUGIN_ROOT}"
  npm install || exit 1

  # Install Python dependencies for image extraction
  python3 -m pip install pymupdf --user 2>/dev/null || pip3 install pymupdf --user 2>/dev/null || echo "Warning: Failed to install pymupdf"

  touch "${CLAUDE_PAPER_PLUGIN_ROOT}/.installed"
  echo "Dependencies installed!"
fi

Recommended:

  • Node >= 18
  • Python 3 with pip (for image extraction)

Step 1: Download and Parse PDF

Supports multiple input formats:

  • Local path: ~/Downloads/paper.pdf
  • Direct PDF URL: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1706.03762.pdf
  • arXiv URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.03762

Read the full file on GitHub · 474 lines

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. 10d ago First seen · 474 lines · 28 tokens per session scan A 6d964db548ab

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claude-paper-study is a skill published in the GitHub repository alaliqing/claude-paper (335 stars, last pushed 26d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 28 tokens to every session and 2,545 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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