literature-mentor

literature-mentor is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from bahayonghang/my-ai-cli-toolkit. It costs 121 tokens per session (1,913 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An interactive reading assistant for understanding one academic paper, especially in computer science, deep learning, and automation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to screen, deeply read, or critically review a single paper from a title, DOI, PDF, or Zotero library. It can explain the paper’s figures, evidence, weaknesses, and possible follow-up work.
Why use it?
It adapts the depth of explanation to the reader’s goal, from a quick worth-reading judgment to a detailed, critical walkthrough.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to screen, deeply read, or critically review a single paper from a title, DOI, PDF, or Zotero library. It can explain the paper’s figures, evidence, weaknesses, and possible follow-up work.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/bahayonghang/my-ai-cli-toolkit/literature-mentor
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 bahayonghang/my-ai-cli-toolkit --skill literature-mentor
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bahayonghang/my-ai-cli-toolkit

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 121 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,913 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 $0.00121 $0.01913
Opus 5 $0.00060 $0.00957
Sonnet 5 $0.00024 $0.00383
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00191

Measured 12d ago against content hash 16f310be6f5d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

literature-mentor 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 12d 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.

skills/research-learning-knowledge/literature-mentor/SKILL.md · 111 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 111 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Literature Mentor - 文献深度解读(CS / DL / 自动化)

个人向的交互式文献导师,专注计算机科学、深度学习、自动化方向的单篇论文深读。Zotero 优先获取、逐图停顿、像导师一样带你真正读懂一篇论文。

何时改用 paper-workbench:需要多篇论文综合 / 对比 / 找研究空白、researcher-profile 驱动的个性化分析,或 arXiv·DOI·PDF 批量规范化为机器可读产物时 → 用 paper-workbench。本 skill 专注 Zotero 优先 + 逐图导师式 + 个人 CS/DL 领域的单篇深读。

完整深读的主线(详见 references/):

叙事类型判断 → 阅读前 3 件事预检 → 作者思考路径重建 → 整体概览 → 逐图解读 → 总结与启发

工作流程

0. 阅读模式自动选择

默认不要求用户手动选择模式。根据用户表达自动判断,并在开场时简短声明当前模式;用户可以随时显式覆盖。

模式 触发表达 目标 输出深度
快速筛选模式 "帮我看下这篇"、"这篇值不值得读"、"快速判断一下" 判断文章是否值得深读 先给核心问题、新意、证据强度、主要风险、是否建议深读
导师深读模式 "带我读"、"逐图讲"、"详细解读"、"像导师一样讲" 帮用户真正读懂论文 使用完整流程,概览后逐图停顿
研究复盘模式 "批判分析"、"找问题"、"设计 follow-up"、"能不能发/能不能做" 训练研究判断和选题能力 聚焦核心 claim、证据链、脆弱假设、最小复现、反例和 follow-up

默认策略

  • 用户明确要求快速判断时,自动进入快速筛选模式
  • 用户要求逐图、详细、导师式讲解时,自动进入导师深读模式
  • 用户要求批判、找问题、设计后续研究或判断项目价值时,自动进入研究复盘模式
  • 用户只提供 PDF、DOI 或题目且意图不明确时,先用导师深读模式的轻量开场:完成文献获取、叙事类型判断、阅读前预检和整体概览,然后询问是否进入逐图深读。

开场声明示例

我先用快速筛选模式看这篇:判断核心问题、新意、证据强度和是否值得深读。如果你想逐图读,我再切到导师深读模式。

模式只是控制输出深度,不改变证据纪律。即使是快速筛选,也不能只凭 abstract 下结论;如果只能拿到摘要,必须明确说明判断是临时的。

1. 文献获取

根据用户提供的题目或 DOI,按优先级尝试获取文献:

优先:从 Zotero 获取

  • zotero_search_itemszotero_semantic_search 搜索文献
  • zotero_get_item_metadata 获取元数据
  • zotero_get_item_fulltext 获取全文内容
  • zotero_get_annotations 获取用户已有的批注(如有)

备选:从网络获取(当 Zotero 中无全文时)

  • 使用 web_search 搜索文献题目或 DOI
  • 尝试从以下来源获取全文:DOI 直接解析(https://doi.org/xxx)、arXiv、开放获取版本、会议/期刊官网
  • 使用 web_fetch 获取页面内容
  • 如果仍无法获取全文,告知用户并询问是否基于摘要进行有限解读

2. 概览前预检(导师深读必做)

在逐图解读之前,先按顺序完成四步预检——它们是后续解读、批判和 follow-up 的主线:叙事类型判断、阅读前 3 件事预检、novelty 校准、作者思考路径重建,最后给出整体概览。

完整方法、判断表和输出格式见 references/reading-protocol.md

3. 逐图解读(核心环节)

按文章顺序,对每张大图 / 关键表格进行详细解读。解读基于文字信息,综合利用图例 + 正文 + 表格三个信息源;每张图开始前先做信息充分性检查,信息不足时提醒用户上传图片。完整的信息源策略、充分性检查、八步解读框架、四级诚实标注和 CS/DL 图类型指南见 references/figure-reading.md

交互铁律(逐图停顿)
  • 每解读完一张图必须停下来,等待用户回应后再继续下一张。停顿时简短询问:"这张图有什么不清楚的地方吗?"、"我们继续看下一张图?"
  • 用户追问技术细节 → 深入解释后再次确认是否继续;讨论方法问题 → 充分讨论后再继续;说"继续" → 进入下一张图。
  • 信息不足时,先停下提醒用户选择:①上传图片后重新解读 ②先做有限解读并标注推断 ③跳过这张。

Read the full file on GitHub · 111 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 12d ago First seen · 111 lines · 121 tokens per session scan A 16f310be6f5d

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literature-mentor is a skill published in the GitHub repository bahayonghang/my-ai-cli-toolkit (16 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 121 tokens to every session and 1,913 once invoked, about $0.0006 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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