paperzilla

paperzilla is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from dralkh/iktinah. It costs 47 tokens per session (927 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of paperzilla, MIT.

A connection to Paperzilla for discussing projects, recommendations, and important research papers through an agent.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to retrieve recommendations, explain papers, assess relevance, export feeds or records, and leave feedback.
Why use it?
It gives research conversations access to Paperzilla's stored recommendations and paper information instead of requiring manual copying.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to retrieve recommendations, explain papers, assess relevance, export feeds or records, and leave feedback.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/dralkh/iktinah/paperzilla
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 dralkh/iktinah --skill paperzilla
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dralkh/iktinah

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 paperzilla

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.

agentmods 80×15 button for paperzilla

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 47 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 927 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 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00047 $0.00927
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00464
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00185
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00093

Measured 7d ago against content hash c705dd8e9849, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

paperzilla 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 7d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to paperzilla — 4 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

skills/paperzilla/SKILL.md · 158 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 158 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Paperzilla

Use this skill when you want to chat with your agent about projects, recommendations, and canonical papers in Paperzilla.

What you can ask

  • "Give me the latest recommendations from project X."
  • "Open recommendation Y and explain why it matters."
  • "Fetch canonical paper Z as markdown and summarize it."
  • "Tell me how this paper is relevant to my research."
  • "Show me the feed for project X."
  • "Leave feedback on a recommendation."
  • "Export this paper, recommendation, or feed as JSON."

This is the core Paperzilla skill. It gives your agent direct access to Paperzilla data, but it does not impose a workflow or external delivery integration.

Access method

Most current profiles in this repo use the pz CLI.

If the current profile ships extra agent-specific instructions, follow those as well.

Install

macOS

brew install paperzilla-ai/tap/pz

Windows (Scoop)

scoop bucket add paperzilla-ai https://github.com/paperzilla-ai/scoop-bucket
scoop install pz

Linux

Use the official Linux install guide:

Build from source (Go 1.23+)

See the CLI repository for source builds:

Update

Check whether your CLI is up to date and get install-specific upgrade steps:

pz update

If detection is ambiguous, override it explicitly:

pz update --install-method homebrew
pz update --install-method scoop
pz update --install-method release
pz update --install-method source

Supported values are auto, homebrew, scoop, release, and source.

Authentication

pz login

CLI reference

If the current profile uses pz, these are the core commands.

List projects

pz project list

Show one project

pz project <project-id>

Browse project feed

pz feed <project-id>

Useful flags:

  • --must-read
  • --since YYYY-MM-DD
  • --limit N
  • --json
  • --atom

Read the full file on GitHub · 158 lines

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. 7d ago First seen · 158 lines · 47 tokens per session scan A c705dd8e9849

Subscribe to this mod's changes

paperzilla is a skill published in the GitHub repository dralkh/iktinah (77 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 47 tokens to every session and 927 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to paperzilla, differing in 4 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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