reading-papers

reading-papers is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from ericluo04/claude-academic-workflow. It costs 0 tokens per session (4,376 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A skill for reading and explaining one specific research paper that the user identifies by link, DOI, title, author, or an unclear reference. A DOI is a persistent identifier for an academic paper.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to summarise a paper, explain its argument, or identify what a named author has written.
Why use it?
It helps answer questions about a known paper without requiring the user to find, read, and interpret the paper alone.

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 a paper, explain its argument, or identify what a named author has written.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ericluo04/claude-academic-workflow/reading-papers
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 ericluo04/claude-academic-workflow --skill reading-papers
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ericluo04/claude-academic-workflow

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
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/ericluo04/claude-academic-workflow/reading-papers"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/ericluo04/claude-academic-workflow/reading-papers/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

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 reading-papers

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 0 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,376 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 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 $0.00000 $0.04376
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.02188
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00875
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00438

Measured yesterday against content hash 91f2964512ec, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

reading-papers scanned grade A 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 yesterday.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (scripts/paper.py, scripts/zotero-mcp-launch.sh), 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

uv itself is missing, fall back to plain curl against the resolver APIs for the one lookup
skills/reading-papers/SKILL.md · 273 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

3 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. yesterday Changed 91f2964512ec
  2. 5d ago Changed · +26 lines cdd3b0637353
  3. 9d ago First seen · 247 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 0583142f743c

Subscribe to this mod's changes

reading-papers is a skill published in the GitHub repository ericluo04/claude-academic-workflow (13 stars, last pushed 2d ago), with no licence file. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 4,376 tokens. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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