Getting it into your agent
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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 | $0.00113 | $0.00677 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00056 | $0.00338 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00023 | $0.00135 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00011 | $0.00068 |
Grade A, and why
academic-paper-to-chinese-insight-pdf 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.
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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 72 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Academic Paper to Chinese Insight PDF
Produce a readable Chinese-first paper deliverable, not a raw dump.
Default output contract
Unless the user explicitly asks for literal full translation, prefer a Chinese insight edition with these parts:
- paper basics
- what the paper is about
- why it matters
- method summary
- key experiments/results
- your insights and opinions
- plain-language explanation
- concise takeaways
- polished Chinese PDF export
This default is usually more useful than a noisy page-by-page translation.
When to choose literal translation vs insight edition
Choose literal/full translation when
- the user explicitly asks for full translation
- the paper is short enough that fidelity matters more than readability
- the user needs section-by-section academic preservation
Choose insight edition when
- the extracted text is noisy or layout-corrupted
- the user wants understanding,观点,启发, or explain-like-I’m-younger output
- the user asks for a PDF handout/report
When you choose insight edition, say briefly that you are using a faithful Chinese精读整理 instead of brittle mechanical translation because it improves readability.
Workflow
- Extract text from the PDF.
- Inspect extraction quality before deciding output mode.
- Identify core sections: abstract, introduction, method, results, conclusion, limits.
- Draft the Chinese report in Markdown.
- Add your own insights as clearly labeled analysis, not as quoted paper claims.
- Add a plain-language explanation section when useful.
- Export with the Chinese PDF renderer.
- Verify the PDF exists and has non-trivial size.
Files to use
- Use
scripts/extract_paper_text.pyto extract the paper text into Markdown. - Use
scripts/render_cn_pdf.pyto export the final Chinese Markdown into a polished PDF. - Read
references/output-structure.mdwhen shaping the final report. - Read
references/quality-bar.mdwhen deciding translation depth and delivery quality.
What ships with it
5 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.
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 · 72 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 9ad5038dcee7
academic-paper-to-chinese-insight-pdf is a skill published in the GitHub repository davidtoby/agent-skills (10 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 113 tokens to every session and 677 once invoked, about $0.0006 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 2026-09-03.
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