paper-reader

paper-reader is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from danielw-sudo/skill-quiver. It costs 50 tokens per session (2,511 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A paper-reading tool that extracts and explains the main findings, methods, and practical meaning of academic research papers, and can translate them.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to study research papers, review how a study was conducted, understand its results, or translate its content for personal use.
Why use it?
It makes technical papers easier to understand without requiring you to read every section or translate them yourself.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — body not stored (licence); the path alone says nothing. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to study research papers, review how a study was conducted, understand its results, or translate its content for personal use.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/danielw-sudo/skill-quiver/paper-reader
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 danielw-sudo/skill-quiver --skill paper-reader
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/danielw-sudo/skill-quiver

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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.

agentmods badge for paper-reader

README.md
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Your own site
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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.

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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 50 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,511 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.
Origin unknown 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 $0.00050 $0.02511
Opus 5.5 $0.00020 $0.01004
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00010 $0.00502
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00251

Measured 2mo ago against content hash f71a9b9b2da1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

paper-reader 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 2mo 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.

prompt/paper-reader/SKILL.md · 184 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

Read it on GitHub

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 2mo ago First seen · 184 lines · 50 tokens per session scan A f71a9b9b2da1

Subscribe to this mod's changes

paper-reader is a skill published in the GitHub repository danielw-sudo/skill-quiver (2 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 50 tokens to every session and 2,511 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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