pdf-paper-summary

pdf-paper-summary is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Drchronx/ai-agent-research-starter-kit. It costs 71 tokens per session (788 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A tool that extracts key details from PDF research papers and writes a structured Markdown summary. It records items such as authors, publication details, research questions, methods, and conclusions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to summarise papers for literature reviews, academic research, or personal knowledge management.
Why use it?
It gives you a consistent short record of a paper without requiring you to organise every detail manually.

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 to summarise papers for literature reviews, academic research, or personal knowledge management.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/drchronx/ai-agent-research-starter-kit/pdf-paper-summary
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 Drchronx/ai-agent-research-starter-kit --skill pdf-paper-summary
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Drchronx/ai-agent-research-starter-kit

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.

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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
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/drchronx/ai-agent-research-starter-kit/pdf-paper-summary"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/drchronx/ai-agent-research-starter-kit/pdf-paper-summary.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 71 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 788 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 $0.00071 $0.00788
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.00394
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00158
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00079

Measured 10d ago against content hash 9ccd68112a8e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

pdf-paper-summary 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 10d ago.

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

本地Skills功能分类库/02_文献检索综述引用Skills/pdf-paper-summary/SKILL.md · 63 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.

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Files

What ships with it

2 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.

  1. 10d ago First seen · 63 lines · 71 tokens per session scan A 9ccd68112a8e

Subscribe to this mod's changes

pdf-paper-summary is a skill published in the GitHub repository Drchronx/ai-agent-research-starter-kit (90 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 71 tokens to every session and 788 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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