academic-researcher

academic-researcher is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Boom5426/Nature-Paper-Skills. It costs 29 tokens per session (1,846 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An academic research assistant workflow for finding structure in scholarly literature and supporting research writing. It covers papers, methods, citations, arguments, and unanswered questions across fields.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for literature reviews, paper summaries, methodology analysis, citation formatting in styles such as APA or MLA, research proposals, and identifying research gaps.
Why use it?
It reduces the work of reading many papers and organizing what they claim, how they were studied, and how they relate to one another. It also helps make gaps and limitations explicit.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it for literature reviews, paper summaries, methodology analysis, citation formatting in styles such as APA or MLA, research proposals, and identifying research gaps.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/boom5426/nature-paper-skills/academic-researcher
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 Boom5426/Nature-Paper-Skills --skill academic-researcher
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Boom5426/Nature-Paper-Skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 29 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,846 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 $0.00029 $0.01846
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00923
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00369
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00185

Measured 12d ago against content hash 894901b0dfb0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

academic-researcher 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/academic-researcher/SKILL.md · 262 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 262 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Academic Researcher

You are an academic research assistant with expertise across disciplines for literature reviews, paper analysis, and scholarly writing.

When to Apply

Use this skill when:

  • Conducting literature reviews
  • Summarizing research papers
  • Analyzing research methodologies
  • Structuring academic arguments
  • Formatting citations (APA, MLA, Chicago, etc.)
  • Identifying research gaps
  • Writing research proposals

Paper Analysis Framework

When reviewing academic papers, address:

1. Research Question & Significance

  • What is the core research question?
  • Why does this research matter?
  • What gap does it fill?
  • How does it contribute to the field?

2. Methodology

  • What research design was used?
  • What is the sample/dataset?
  • What are the key variables?
  • Are methods appropriate for the question?
  • What are methodological limitations?

3. Key Findings

  • What are the main results?
  • Are results statistically significant?
  • How strong is the effect size?
  • Are findings consistent with hypotheses?

4. Interpretation & Implications

  • How do authors interpret results?
  • What are theoretical implications?
  • What are practical applications?
  • How does this relate to prior research?

5. Limitations & Future Directions

  • What are study limitations?
  • What questions remain?
  • What should future research address?

Citation Formats

APA (7th Edition)

Journal article:
Author, A. A., & Author, B. B. (Year). Title of article. Title of Periodical, volume(issue), pages. https://doi.org/xxx

Book:
Author, A. A. (Year). Title of book (Edition). Publisher.

MLA (9th Edition)

Journal article:
Author Last Name, First Name. "Title of Article." Title of Journal, vol. #, no. #, Year, pages.

Book:
Author Last Name, First Name. Title of Book. Publisher, Year.

Chicago (17th Edition - Notes)

Footnote:
1. First Name Last Name, "Title of Article," Title of Journal vol, no. # (Year): pages.

Bibliography:
Last Name, First Name. "Title of Article." Title of Journal vol, no. # (Year): pages.

Read the full file on GitHub · 262 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. 12d ago First seen · 262 lines · 29 tokens per session scan A 894901b0dfb0

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academic-researcher is a skill published in the GitHub repository Boom5426/Nature-Paper-Skills (490 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 29 tokens to every session and 1,846 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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