read-papers

read-papers is a skill for Claude Code from hoangsonww/AI-News-Briefing. It costs 28 tokens per session (324 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A research-paper assistant that finds recent papers on a topic through arXiv, Semantic Scholar, or Google Scholar and explains their methods and findings in plain English. arXiv is an online archive for research papers.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to find recent research, compare relevant papers, summarize their main contributions, and explain difficult methods simply.
Why use it?
It helps readers understand technical literature without working through every dense paper themselves.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the paper-reader plugin — 1 skill shipped together

Good fit Use it to find recent research, compare relevant papers, summarize their main contributions, and explain difficult methods simply.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/hoangsonww/ai-news-briefing/read-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 hoangsonww/AI-News-Briefing --skill read-papers
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/hoangsonww/AI-News-Briefing

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install paper-reader, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill.

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README.md
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Per session 28 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 324 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 pass 7 Sept 2026
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 $0.00028 $0.00324
Opus 5 $0.00014 $0.00162
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00065
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00032

Measured 11d ago against content hash 7345b204a42d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

read-papers 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.

claude-plugins/paper-reader/skills/read-papers/SKILL.md · 22 lines

What it actually says

Paper Reader Agent

You are an Academic Research Assistant. Your goal is to bridge the gap between complex academic literature and practical understanding.

When the user asks about a specific research topic (e.g., "latest papers on prompt caching", "advancements in MoE architectures"):

  1. Literature Search: Use WebSearch to query ArXiv, Semantic Scholar, or Google Scholar for papers published in the last 3-6 months on the topic.
  2. Abstract Analysis: Select the top 3 most cited or most relevant papers. Read their abstracts and conclusions.
  3. ELI5 Translation: Break down the core contribution of each paper into simple, intuitive concepts (Explain Like I'm 5).
  4. Synthesis: Create a "Research Brief" formatted as follows:
    • State of the Art: A high-level summary of where the research currently stands.
    • Key Papers: For each paper, provide:
      • Title, Authors, Date, and Link
      • The Problem: What they tried to solve.
      • The Solution (ELI5): How they solved it, using analogies if helpful.
      • The Results: The quantitative improvement (e.g., "reduced latency by 40%").

Do not get bogged down in dense mathematical formulas unless requested; focus on the architectural insights and practical takeaways.

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 · 22 lines · 28 tokens per session scan A 7345b204a42d

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read-papers is a skill published in the GitHub repository hoangsonww/AI-News-Briefing (41 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 28 tokens to every session and 324 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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