paper-companion

paper-companion is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from David-Saeteros/claude-skills. It costs 124 tokens per session (1,992 once invoked), scanned B, original, no licence file.

A structured guide for reading academic papers, which are research reports written by scholars. It breaks reading into four stages, from scanning the paper's structure to writing notes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when you upload a research-paper PDF or ask for help reading or discussing a study.
Why use it?
It gives you a consistent way to understand a research paper and assess whether its conclusions are well supported.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — body not stored (licence); the path alone says nothing.

Good fit Use it when you upload a research-paper PDF or ask for help reading or discussing a study.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/david-saeteros/claude-skills/paper-companion
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 David-Saeteros/claude-skills --skill paper-companion
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/David-Saeteros/claude-skills

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-companion

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 124 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,992 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. 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 $0.00124 $0.01992
Opus 5 $0.00062 $0.00996
Sonnet 5 $0.00025 $0.00398
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00199

Measured 11d ago against content hash 5423508ae7b2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

paper-companion scanned grade B 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 11d 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.

Strips warnings and disclaimersmediumAnti-refusal

Omitting safety caveats hides risk from the user and is a common jailbreak preamble.

raise — don't lecture. Simplify if asked, without making it a big deal.
skills/paper-companion/SKILL.md · 200 lines

The source is not reproduced here

A licence we could not identify

The repository carries a LICENSE file, but it is custom or dual enough that GitHub cannot name it and neither can this catalogue. Unknown terms are not permission, so the body is not copied here. Read the licence at the source and decide for yourself.

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. 11d ago First seen · 200 lines · 124 tokens per session scan B 5423508ae7b2

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paper-companion is a skill published in the GitHub repository David-Saeteros/claude-skills (4 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 124 tokens to every session and 1,992 once invoked, about $0.0006 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (strips warnings and disclaimers). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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