paper-analysis

paper-analysis is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from beita6969/ScienceClaw. It costs 96 tokens per session (815 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A tool for reading and critically reviewing scientific papers, including their methods, findings, contributions, and limitations.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to summarize papers, assess study design and reproducibility, extract key results, and compare or critique research.
Why use it?
It saves time when you need to understand a paper carefully rather than only read its abstract.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to summarize papers, assess study design and reproducibility, extract key results, and compare or critique research.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/beita6969/scienceclaw/paper-analysis
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 beita6969/ScienceClaw --skill paper-analysis
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/beita6969/ScienceClaw

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 96 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 815 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 $0.00096 $0.00815
Opus 5 $0.00048 $0.00407
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.00163
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00081

Measured 9d ago against content hash d60e56ad447e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

paper-analysis 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 9d 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/paper-analysis/SKILL.md · 115 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 115 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Paper Analysis

Systematic scientific paper reading, summarization, and critical analysis.

Paper Acquisition

  1. If user provides a DOI: fetch via https://doi.org/DOI or Semantic Scholar API
  2. If user provides arXiv ID: fetch via https://arxiv.org/abs/ID
  3. If user provides a URL: use web_fetch to extract content
  4. If user provides a PDF file: read directly or use summarize skill

Analysis Framework

Quick Summary (default)

Provide in ~200 words:

  • Research question / objective
  • Method (1-2 sentences)
  • Key findings (2-3 bullet points)
  • Main contribution
  • One key limitation

Deep Analysis

When requested, provide structured analysis:

1. Paper Metadata
  • Title, authors, year, journal/venue, DOI
  • Citation count (via Semantic Scholar)
2. Research Context
  • Problem statement and motivation
  • Research gap being addressed
  • Theoretical framework
3. Methodology Assessment
  • Study design (experimental/observational/computational/theoretical)
  • Sample/dataset description
  • Variables (independent, dependent, controls)
  • Analysis methods
  • Reproducibility assessment (data/code availability)
4. Results Evaluation
  • Key findings with effect sizes and confidence intervals
  • Statistical significance vs practical significance
  • Figures and tables interpretation
  • Are results consistent with claims?
5. Critical Assessment

Check for:

  • Internal validity: confounds, selection bias, measurement error
  • External validity: generalizability, ecological validity
  • Statistical issues: multiple comparisons, p-hacking, small N
  • Logical issues: correlation ≠ causation, survivorship bias
  • Reporting issues: selective reporting, missing negative results
  • Methodological rigor: appropriate controls, blinding, randomization
6. Contribution & Impact
  • Novelty assessment
  • Practical implications
  • Theoretical implications
  • Future directions suggested

Comparison Mode

When comparing multiple papers:

Dimension Paper A Paper B Paper C
Research Question
Method
Sample Size
Key Finding
Limitation
Strength

Read the full file on GitHub · 115 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. 9d ago First seen · 115 lines · 96 tokens per session scan A d60e56ad447e

Subscribe to this mod's changes

paper-analysis is a skill published in the GitHub repository beita6969/ScienceClaw (898 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 96 tokens to every session and 815 once invoked, about $0.0005 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 2026-09-03.

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