paper-wiki

paper-wiki is a skill for Claude Code from Geek96/paper-research-skill. It costs 87 tokens per session (3,292 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A research and note-taking workflow for building a cumulative wiki in Obsidian from academic papers. Obsidian is a note-taking app that links related pages together.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create chapter-by-chapter paper notes and expand reusable concept pages as new papers introduce the same ideas.
Why use it?
It turns papers into detailed, connected explanations instead of isolated short summaries.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

Part of the paper-research-skill plugin — 5 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to create chapter-by-chapter paper notes and expand reusable concept pages as new papers introduce the same ideas.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/geek96/paper-research-skill/paper-wiki
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 Geek96/paper-research-skill --skill paper-wiki
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Geek96/paper-research-skill

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install paper-research-skill, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 5 skills.

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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Per session 87 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,292 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 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 $0.00087 $0.03292
Opus 5 $0.00044 $0.01646
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00658
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00329

Measured 11d ago against content hash d751abe2ed88, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

paper-wiki 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 11d 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.

.agents/skills/paper-wiki/SKILL.md · 295 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 295 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Paper Wiki (Karpathy Style)

Philosophy

Karpathy's writing style is the model: intuition before formalism, concrete before abstract, honest about what's new vs. borrowed. A good wiki entry reads like a smart friend explaining a paper over coffee — not an abstract. Every concept earns its place by connecting to something the reader already knows.

This skill produces two kinds of output that compound over time:

  1. Paper pages (Wiki/Papers/) — deep chapter-by-chapter breakdowns of each paper
  2. Concept entries (Wiki/Concepts/) — standalone deep dives into methods, terms, and phenomena, augmented each time a new paper touches them

Running this on 5 papers produces a small wiki. Running on 50 produces a rich, interconnected knowledge graph.


Visual Design System

All wiki pages use a consistent visual language optimized for Obsidian reading experience:

Frontmatter (Dataview Integration)

Every paper and concept page includes structured YAML frontmatter for Dataview queries. This enables automatic indexing, filtering, and dashboard generation.

Callout Types

Use Obsidian callouts to highlight key sections:

Callout Usage Example
> [!abstract] TL;DR / one-line summary Paper and concept summaries
> [!success] Key Findings / positive results Findings with evidence
> [!warning] Critical questions / limitations "What I'd Question" sections
> [!tip] Practical advice / adoption Adoption Guide, "When to Use"
> [!info] Prerequisites / context Background knowledge needed
> [!example] Concrete examples / case studies Task examples, data instances
> [!danger] Safety concerns / red flags Medical safety, data leakage risks

Emoji Section Headers

Use emoji sparingly but consistently as visual anchors:

Emoji Section
🎯 Why This Exists / Motivation
📋 Quick Reference / Overview
🔬 Method / Architecture / Task Definitions
📊 Results / Baseline / Performance
💡 Key Findings / Insights
⚠️ What I'd Question / Limitations
🧩 Key Concepts
🔗 Related Papers
🛠️ Adoption Guide / Practical
📦 Dataset Construction
📐 Evaluation Framework
🗺️ Taxonomy / Framework (surveys, frameworks)
🏗️ Architecture (technical reports) / The Framework (frameworks)
🔎 Study Design (analyses)

Read the full file on GitHub · 295 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. 11d ago First seen · 295 lines · 87 tokens per session scan A d751abe2ed88

Subscribe to this mod's changes

paper-wiki is a skill published in the GitHub repository Geek96/paper-research-skill (21 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 87 tokens to every session and 3,292 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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