paper-review

paper-review is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from drpwchen/paper-review-and-digest. It costs 136 tokens per session (8,281 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for deeply reviewing one academic paper, including its journal, authors, references, citations, evidence, and clinical relevance. An academic paper is a published research report.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to prepare a detailed journal-club review, assess research quality, verify references, examine citation impact, and consider whether findings apply in practice.
Why use it?
It helps readers judge how trustworthy and useful a paper is, rather than accepting its conclusions without checking the supporting evidence.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions subagents.

Good fit Use it to prepare a detailed journal-club review, assess research quality, verify references, examine citation impact, and consider whether findings apply in practice.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/drpwchen/paper-review-and-digest/paper-review
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 drpwchen/paper-review-and-digest --skill paper-review
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/drpwchen/paper-review-and-digest

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 136 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 8,281 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 203
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
How audits are shown
Origin original 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 $0.00136 $0.08281
Opus 5 $0.00068 $0.04140
Sonnet 5 $0.00027 $0.01656
Haiku 4.5 $0.00014 $0.00828

Measured 12d ago against content hash b49188957a29, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

paper-review 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 12d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 3 executable files (argdown_lint.py, elsevier_fulltext.py, grade_judge.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.

paper-review/SKILL.md · 547 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 547 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Paper Review — 單篇論文深度評讀

Overview

This skill performs a 360-degree deep dive into a single academic paper, covering journal credibility, author backgrounds, publication history, historical context, reference verification, critical appraisal, and citation impact analysis. The output is a structured Obsidian note in ${vault.papers_dir} plus a daily note entry under ${vault.daily_section}.

Reviews should be clinically grounded, teachable (journal-club ready), and honest about what the evidence can and cannot support. Tone, language, specialty framing, and external-validity checks are driven by ${persona} (see Configuration).

Configuration (read FIRST, every run)

Before Phase 0, read config.yaml in this skill's directory (copy config.example.yamlconfig.yaml on first setup). It defines the values this document references as ${section.key}:

  • ${vault.papers_dir}, ${vault.medicine_dir}, ${vault.inbox_note}, ${vault.daily_section}
  • ${fulltext.*} (inbox, Zotero, Elsevier, SFX resolver, institution) — consumed via fulltext-acquisition.md
  • ${secrets.backend} — how bundled scripts read API keys
  • ${persona} — language, specialty, audience, locale, reimbursement system. This is user-authored; it sets whether output is 繁體中文/English, which clinical lens, and whether coverage lookups run.

Wherever this SKILL writes ${...}, substitute the config value. A blank/placeholder value means "skip that route". The bundled scripts (grade_judge.py, argdown_lint.py) need no config.

Input

Accepts any of:

  • DOI (e.g., 10.1097/PHM.0000000000002700)
  • PMID (e.g., 39056432)
  • Paper title (partial or full)
  • PDF file path (local file)
  • Pasted content (abstract or full text in the conversation)

Effort tiers (pick before starting — token budget)

  • Quick (daily-note [x] checkbox): Phases 1 + Critical Appraisal + 白話導讀 only. No author/journal deep-dive, no citation analysis, no reference verification. ~1 model, cheap.
  • Deep (/paper-review): all 7 phases. Token-heavy (many MCP + WebFetch calls). Before starting, offer the user a focused deep: "全跑 (Phases 1-7) 還是只跑關鍵幾關 (2 期刊/6 引用查核/appraisal)?" Respect a "skip" after any phase. Don't silently run all 7 if the user wanted a spot-check.
  • Either tier: reuse journal_cache.json / author_cache.json before any WebSearch.

Read the full file on GitHub · 547 lines

Files

What ships with it

8 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. 12d ago First seen · 547 lines · 136 tokens per session scan A b49188957a29

Subscribe to this mod's changes

paper-review is a skill published in the GitHub repository drpwchen/paper-review-and-digest (39 stars, last pushed 21d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 136 tokens to every session and 8,281 once invoked, about $0.0007 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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