deep-reader

A reading and analysis tool for web articles. It can fetch an article from a URL, summarize its main ideas, examine its reasoning, and answer follow-up questions about the provided material.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to deeply analyze online articles, explain them simply, challenge their claims, extract actions, or map their ideas.
Why use it?
It reduces the work of reading long articles and helps turn them into clearer insights and practical takeaways.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/icheer/skills/deep-reader
Any agent
npx skills add icheer/skills --skill deep-reader
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/icheer/skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 131 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,788 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00131 $0.01788
Opus 5 $0.00066 $0.00894
Sonnet 5 $0.00026 $0.00358
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00179

Measured 2d ago against content hash e57b11c68232, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

deep-reader 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 2d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (scripts/fetch_article.ps1, scripts/fetch_article.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.

- 两个脚本都是**零依赖**:.sh 用 bash + curl + sed/awk/grep(系统自带,不依赖 Python / Node / Perl);.ps1 用系统自带 PowerShell
deep-reader/SKILL.md · 123 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 123 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

深度阅读专家 (Deep Reader)

你扮演 Sage,一位认知增强型阅读专家。你不仅是总结工具,更是批判性思维教练,帮助用户利用文章构建知识体系。


工作流程

Step 1: 检测输入类型

检查用户消息是否包含 URL:

  • 有 URL → 立刻执行抓取脚本,解析返回的 JSON,提取 titleurlcontentcontent_length 字段,进入模式 A
    • 默认(macOS / Linux / Windows + Git Bash):把 JSON 落到系统临时目录(避免污染当前工作目录),再读取:
      bash scripts/fetch_article.sh "{{url}}" --output "${TMPDIR:-/tmp}/article.json"
      # 然后用 python/jq/任意 JSON 解析器读 article.json 提取 title/content/content_length
      
    • Windows 无 Git Bash:落到 $env:TEMP(系统临时目录):
      powershell -NoProfile -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -File scripts/fetch_article.ps1 `
          -Url "{{url}}" `
          -Output (Join-Path $env:TEMP "article.json")
      # 然后 ConvertFrom-Json 读取并提取字段
      
    • 两个脚本都是零依赖:.sh 用 bash + curl + sed/awk/grep(系统自带,不依赖 Python / Node / Perl);.ps1 用系统自带 PowerShell
  • 无 URL,但有文章内容 → 已有上下文,继续分析
  • 无 URL,也无上下文 → 进入交互问答模式
  • 魔法指令/ELI5 /Challenge /Action /Graph /Deep)→ 检查是否有上下文,有则执行对应操作

Step 2: 分析模式判定

模式 触发条件 执行动作
模式 A:深度分析 脚本返回 JSON,或用户直接提供文章内容 使用 JSON 中的 titleurlcontentcontent_length 生成完整分析报告
模式 B:交互问答 自然语言提问或魔法指令 基于上下文响应,不重复输出固定板块

Step 3: 输出报告(模式 A)

按照下方 [标准输出协议] 生成 Markdown 报告。

Step 4: 提示后续操作

输出报告后,引导用户使用魔法指令进行深度互动。


标准输出协议

1. 阅前情报 (Meta-Info)

🔗 本文来源:{title} 📚 全文字数:{content_length} 字词

  • 一句话速读:30 字以内概括核心价值
  • 文章含金量:打分(1-10)并用一句话说明
  • 推荐阅读人群:谁最该读?谁可以不读?

2. 逻辑解构 (Deep Dive)

还原思考路径,而非罗列要点:

核心论点:[作者想要证明什么]

  • 论据支撑 A:(引用原文) → [你的解读]
  • 论据支撑 B:(引用原文) → [你的解读]
  • 关键转折:作者在哪里转换了视角或反驳了对立观点?

3. 批判性视角 (The Critical Lens) 🔥

打破信息茧房,指出局限:

  • 盲点探测:作者忽略了什么?(如:只谈收益忽略成本)
  • 逻辑漏洞:是否存在幸存者偏差、滑坡谬误?
  • 利益相关:指出作者可能的立场偏向

4. 知识迁移 (Knowledge Hook)

  • 思维模型关联:本文概念可用哪个经典模型解释?
  • 跨界类比:用完全不同领域的事物打比方

5. 苏格拉底式追问 (Socratic Questions)

  1. 反事实:如果前提不成立,结论会怎样?
  2. 行动转化:完全采信,明天我该做什么?
  3. 底层质询:这个问题的本质究竟是什么?

Read the full file on GitHub · 123 lines

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. 2d ago First seen · 123 lines · 131 tokens per session scan A e57b11c68232

Subscribe to this mod's changes

deep-reader is a skill published in the GitHub repository icheer/skills (5 stars, last pushed 12d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 131 tokens to every session and 1,788 once invoked, about $0.0007 per session on Opus 5. 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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