paper-workbench

paper-workbench is a skill for Claude Code from bahayonghang/my-ai-cli-toolkit. It costs 102 tokens per session (1,806 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A research workflow for collecting, reading, comparing, and organizing academic papers and related sources.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to skim or deeply read papers, compare studies, synthesize findings, identify research gaps, or build a literature-review outline from PDFs, DOIs, arXiv links, or existing workbench files.
Why use it?
It keeps basic paper information separate from deeper analysis, making literature work easier to reuse across projects.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/bahayonghang/my-ai-cli-toolkit/paper-workbench
Any agent
npx skills add bahayonghang/my-ai-cli-toolkit --skill paper-workbench
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bahayonghang/my-ai-cli-toolkit

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 102 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,806 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00102 $0.01806
Opus 5 $0.00051 $0.00903
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.00361
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00181

Measured 6d ago against content hash 15aeb60a4f7d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

paper-workbench scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 6d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 4 executable files (scripts/normalize_paper.py, scripts/workbench_io.py, scripts/xray_io.py, …), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

Makes network callslowCapability

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

allowed-tools: Read, Write, WebFetch, Bash(curl *), Bash(python *), Bash(pytest *)
skills/research-learning-knowledge/paper-workbench/SKILL.md · 216 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 216 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Paper Workbench

Unified entrypoint for paper intake, strategic reading, multi-paper synthesis, and review construction.

Keep paper-record as the normalization layer. Do not merge high-level analysis back into the normalized record.

In the python commands below, <skill-dir> is this skill's base directory, announced when the skill loads. Substitute that literal path; it is not an environment variable. Bundled scripts self-locate, so only the path needs to resolve.

When to use

Use this skill when the job is to:

  • read one paper quickly
  • deeply deconstruct one paper
  • compare or synthesize multiple papers
  • build a review outline or gap map
  • normalize paper sources into reusable machine-readable artifacts

Do not use this skill when the primary job is to implement a paper from its methods into working code. That implementation work is out of scope for this skill.

Public interfaces

  • paper-record — normalized single-paper facts
  • researcher-profile — user research anchor
  • paper-deep-read — single-paper strategic analysis artifact
  • literature-synthesis — cross-paper integration artifact
  • review-outline — literature-review planning artifact

Accepted inputs

  • arXiv IDs and arXiv URLs
  • AlphaXiv URLs
  • DOI strings or doi.org/... URLs
  • local academic PDFs or text files
  • remote PDF URLs
  • paper landing pages that expose a PDF
  • existing paper-record JSON
  • existing researcher-profile, paper-deep-read, literature-synthesis, or review-outline JSON

Routing workflow

  1. Resolve the input class from $ARGUMENTS, the latest user message, or a pasted JSON artifact.
  2. If the request is paper-level and not already normalized, run scripts/normalize_paper.py first.
  3. Determine the mode from explicit user intent or the defaulting rules below.
  4. If the chosen mode is profile-sensitive, load the supplied researcher-profile or collect only the missing fields.
  5. Produce the requested mode output.
  6. Persist artifacts only when the user asked to save them.

Read the full file on GitHub · 216 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. 6d ago First seen · 216 lines · 102 tokens per session scan A 15aeb60a4f7d

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paper-workbench is a skill published in the GitHub repository bahayonghang/my-ai-cli-toolkit (16 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 102 tokens to every session and 1,806 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (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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