claude-paper-webui

claude-paper-webui is a skill for Claude Code from alaliqing/claude-paper. It costs 17 tokens per session (1,126 once invoked), scanned C, original, MIT.

A web viewer for browsing and studying research papers. It starts the Claude Paper viewer and handles the first-time setup of its web dependencies.

In plain words
What is it for?
Launching the paper viewer, installing or repairing its web dependencies, and opening the paper-study interface.
Why use it?
It provides a browser-based way to inspect papers instead of relying only on files or command-line tools.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Needs its repository: it runs a file that does not travel with it, so clone the repository first. The line is HOST=127.0.0.1 PORT=5815 node .output/server/index.mjs &.

Good fit Launching the paper viewer, installing or repairing its web dependencies, and opening the paper-study interface.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

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

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 17 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,126 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 2 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 $0.00017 $0.01126
Opus 5.5 $0.00007 $0.00450
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00003 $0.00225
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00113

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 161c98dd9838, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

claude-paper-webui scanned grade C with 2 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 1mo 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.

Recursive force deletehighDestructive command

rm -rf with a variable or a broad path is one typo away from removing the wrong tree.

rm -rf node_modules

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

if curl -s http://localhost:5815/api/papers > /dev/null 2>&1; then
.agents/skills/claude-paper-webui/SKILL.md · 144 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 144 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.


Start Web UI

This skill starts the Claude Paper web viewer using the production Nuxt.js server.

Step 1: Check and Install Dependencies (First Run Only)

Check if web dependencies are installed (with corruption check):

cd "${CLAUDE_PAPER_PLUGIN_ROOT}/src/web"

if [ ! -d "node_modules" ]; then
  echo "First run - installing web dependencies..."
  npm ci
  echo "Web dependencies installed!"
elif [ ! -f "node_modules/.package-lock.json" ] || [ ! -d "node_modules/nuxt" ]; then
  echo "ERROR: node_modules is corrupted, performing clean install..."
  rm -rf node_modules
  npm ci
  echo "Web dependencies installed!"
else
  echo "Dependencies already installed"
fi

Step 2: Build Production Server (auto-rebuilds on plugin update)

Build if needed or if plugin version changed:

cd ${CLAUDE_PAPER_PLUGIN_ROOT}/src/web

PLUGIN_VERSION=$(node -e "console.log(require('${CLAUDE_PAPER_PLUGIN_ROOT}/.claude-plugin/plugin.json').version)")
BUILD_VERSION=""
if [ -f ".output/.build-version" ]; then
  BUILD_VERSION=$(cat ".output/.build-version")
fi

if [ ! -f ".output/server/index.mjs" ] || [ "$PLUGIN_VERSION" != "$BUILD_VERSION" ]; then
  echo "Building production server (v${PLUGIN_VERSION})..."
  npm run build
  echo "$PLUGIN_VERSION" > .output/.build-version
  echo "Build complete!"
else
  echo "Production build is up to date (v${BUILD_VERSION})"
fi

Read the full file on GitHub · 144 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. 1mo ago First seen · 144 lines · 17 tokens per session scan C 161c98dd9838

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claude-paper-webui is a skill published in the GitHub repository alaliqing/claude-paper (351 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 17 tokens to every session and 1,126 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it C with 2 findings (recursive force delete, makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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