What is paper-source-trace?

A research workflow for tracing the sources and claims behind an academic paper. It can produce a written report, a citation graph, and visual maps when the paper and filesystem access provide enough evidence.

It helps trace citations, identify citation intent, extract entities and relationships, map contributions, and create structured JSON, SVG, or HTML citation artifacts.

It makes it easier to understand why a paper cites each source and how earlier research supports its claims, rather than treating the reference list as a simple bibliography.

paper-source-trace — Skill for Claude Code by CanXiangCC

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 CanXiangCC/aminer-open-skill --skill paper-source-trace

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/CanXiangCC/aminer-open-skill

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install paper-source-trace, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill, 1 command.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

README.md

[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/canxiangcc/aminer-open-skill/paper-source-trace/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/canxiangcc/aminer-open-skill/paper-source-trace)

Your own site

<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/canxiangcc/aminer-open-skill/paper-source-trace"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/canxiangcc/aminer-open-skill/paper-source-trace/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

Your own site · 80×15

<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/canxiangcc/aminer-open-skill/paper-source-trace"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/canxiangcc/aminer-open-skill/paper-source-trace.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>

Per session 103 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 1,878 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00103	$0.01878
Opus 5	$0.00051	$0.00939
Sonnet 5	$0.00021	$0.00376
Haiku 4.5	$0.00010	$0.00188

Measured 9d ago against content hash 1877d9b4c827, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

paper-source-trace 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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/render_html.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.

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-source-trace/SKILL.md · 147 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 147 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Paper Source Trace

Paper Source Trace turns one target paper into grounded, claim-centered source-tracing artifacts. It keeps one canonical skill name, paper-source-trace.

Invoke it through natural language or /paper-source-trace.

Language Routing

Use SKILL.zh.md when the user mainly writes in Chinese or explicitly requests Chinese output.
Use this SKILL.md for all other requests.
Keep json/graph/citation_graph.json keys, intent labels, relation types, source roles, and parameter names in English in both workflows.

English Workflow

Standard Artifacts

Produce these artifacts when evidence and filesystem access allow:

analysis.md: human-readable report.
json/graph/citation_graph.json: canonical machine-readable graph following references/schema.md.
citation_map.svg: static citation map when SVG generation is possible.
citation_map.html: single-file interactive graph when graph data is available.
citation_map_chain.svg: chain-style source trace SVG only when svg: both.
citation_map_spec.md: only when SVG generation has caveats or fails.

Default output directory:

outputs/paper-source-trace/<safe-paper-stem>/

Preferred layout:

analysis.md
citation_map.svg
citation_map.html
citation_map_chain.svg          # only when svg is both
citation_map_spec.md            # only when SVG generation has caveats or fails
json/graph/citation_graph.json
json/aminer/*.json              # only when AMiner raw results are saved
json/extraction/*.json          # only when structured intermediates are saved

Legacy compatibility: if the user writes mode: current, treat it as svg: radial; mode: example as svg: chain; and mode: all as svg: both. If svg and mode are both supplied and conflict, ask the user to confirm the intended SVG output. hybrid, interactive graph, or expandable knowledge graph means the user wants the standard citation_map.html; it is not an SVG mode and does not change the SVG choice.

Read the full file on GitHub · 147 lines

Files

What ships with it

12 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.

9d ago First seen · 147 lines · 103 tokens per session scan A 1877d9b4c827

Subscribe to this mod's changes

paper-source-trace is a skill published in the GitHub repository CanXiangCC/aminer-open-skill (59 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 103 tokens to every session and 1,878 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 2026-08-30.

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