paper-analyzer

paper-analyzer is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Boom5426/Nature-Paper-Skills. It costs 32 tokens per session (478 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A deep-reading workflow for one research paper, producing structured notes about its claims, methods, experiments, figures, strengths, weaknesses, and related work.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it with an arXiv ID, paper title, or file path to fetch and analyze a paper, generate a structured note, and update the paper relationship graph.
Why use it?
It turns a paper into organized material that is easier to evaluate and revisit. It also records the paper in a knowledge graph so its relationship to other work can be tracked.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it with an arXiv ID, paper title, or file path to fetch and analyze a paper, generate a structured note, and update the paper relationship graph.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/boom5426/nature-paper-skills/paper-analyzer
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 paper-analyzer
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 32 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 478 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. 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 $0.00032 $0.00478
Opus 5.5 $0.00013 $0.00191
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00006 $0.00096
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00048

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 953768303fc4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

paper-analyzer 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 1mo ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (scripts/generate_note.py, scripts/update_graph.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.

curl -L "https://arxiv.org/pdf/[PAPER_ID]" -o /tmp/paper_analysis/[PAPER_ID].pdf
skills/research/paper-analyzer/SKILL.md · 49 lines

What it actually says

Paper Analyzer

Overview

Perform deep analysis of a specific paper, generating structured notes that cover claims, methodology, experiment evaluation, strengths and limitations, and links to adjacent work.

Workflow

Step 1: Identify Paper

Accept input: arXiv ID (e.g., "2402.12345"), full ID ("arXiv:2402.12345"), paper title, or file path.

Step 2: Fetch Paper Content

curl -L "https://arxiv.org/pdf/[PAPER_ID]" -o /tmp/paper_analysis/[PAPER_ID].pdf
curl -L "https://arxiv.org/e-print/[PAPER_ID]" -o /tmp/paper_analysis/[PAPER_ID].tar.gz
curl -s "https://arxiv.org/abs/[PAPER_ID]" > /tmp/paper_analysis/arxiv_page.html

Step 3: Deep Analysis

Analyze: abstract, methodology, experiments, results, contributions, limitations, future work, related papers.

Step 4: Generate Note

python scripts/generate_note.py --paper-id "$PAPER_ID" --title "$TITLE" --authors "$AUTHORS" --domain "$DOMAIN"

Step 5: Update Knowledge Graph

python scripts/update_graph.py --paper-id "$PAPER_ID" --title "$TITLE" --domain "$DOMAIN" --score $SCORE

Scripts

  • scripts/generate_note.py — Generate structured note template
  • scripts/update_graph.py — Update paper relationship graph

Note Structure

The generated note includes: core info, abstract (EN/CN), research background, method overview with architecture figures, experiment results with tables, deep analysis, related paper comparison, tech roadmap positioning, future work, and comprehensive evaluation (0-10 scoring).

Dependencies

  • Python 3.8+, PyYAML, requests
  • Network access (arXiv)

Based on evil-read-arxiv — an automated paper reading workflow. MIT License.

Files

What ships with it

2 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. 1mo ago First seen · 49 lines · 32 tokens per session scan A 953768303fc4

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paper-analyzer is a skill published in the GitHub repository Boom5426/Nature-Paper-Skills (633 stars, last pushed 13d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 32 tokens to every session and 478 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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