paper-summary

paper-summary is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from jimezsa/opencolab. It costs 43 tokens per session (1,310 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for turning one or more downloaded research-paper PDFs into consistent Markdown summaries. It is designed for papercli research runs.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to summarize local PDFs and optionally record which papers have already been processed.
Why use it?
It separates the summarizing step from paper discovery and keeps summaries in a predictable format for later use.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to summarize local PDFs and optionally record which papers have already been processed.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jimezsa/opencolab/paper-summary
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 jimezsa/opencolab --skill paper-summary
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jimezsa/opencolab

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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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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Per session 43 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,310 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 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 $0.00043 $0.01310
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.00655
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00262
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00131

Measured 7d ago against content hash 6e2b4eaed36a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

paper-summary 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 7d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/gemini_parallel_summary.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.

Makes network callslowCapability

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

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jimezsa/papercli/main/SKILLS/paper-summary/SKILL.md \
projects/SKILLS/paper-summary/SKILL.md · 138 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 138 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Paper Summary Skill

Use this skill when PDFs have already been downloaded and the next step is to create deterministic <run-folder>/pdf/<safe_id>.md summaries from those PDFs.

For precise follow-up QA after the summaries exist, switch to the shared pageindex-grounded skill instead of stretching this skill into ad hoc question answering.

This skill is the canonical summary step for:

  • SKILLS/fast-research/SKILL.md
  • SKILLS/pro-research/SKILL.md
  • SKILLS/deep-research/SKILL.md

Update This Skill

Only do this if the user explicitly asks to update this skill from the GitHub repo.

To refresh this skill directly from the GitHub repo:

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jimezsa/papercli/main/SKILLS/paper-summary/SKILL.md \
  -o SKILLS/paper-summary/SKILL.md
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jimezsa/papercli/main/SKILLS/paper-summary/references/summary_schema.md \
  -o SKILLS/paper-summary/references/summary_schema.md
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jimezsa/papercli/main/SKILLS/paper-summary/scripts/gemini_parallel_summary.py \
  -o SKILLS/paper-summary/scripts/gemini_parallel_summary.py

Mission

Given one paper PDF or a directory of paper PDFs:

  1. Read the PDFs directly with Gemini.
  2. Produce one markdown summary per paper that follows the canonical schema in references/summary_schema.md.
  3. Write each summary as <safe_id>.md, next to <safe_id>.pdf, unless an explicit output directory is provided.
  4. Optionally append original paper IDs to <run-folder>/meta/summarized_ids.txt.

Prerequisites

  • python3 is installed and available in PATH.
  • google-genai is installed: python3 -m pip install google-genai
  • GEMINI_API_KEY is set in the environment.
  • Network access is available when running the Gemini script.
  • The PDFs already exist locally.
  • Optional metadata JSON files exist in <run-folder>/meta/<safe_id>.json.

Required Inputs

  • A single PDF via --pdf, or a directory of PDFs via --pdf-dir.
  • Optional --metadata-dir so the script can recover original paper IDs and metadata fallbacks.
  • Optional --summarized-ids file to append successful original paper IDs.
  • Optional --failures-tsv file to record summary failures in the same ledger used by the research skills.
  • The active research run folder, normally research/<YYYY-MM-DD>-<topic-slug>/, when this is called from fast-research, pro-research, or deep-research.

Read the full file on GitHub · 138 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. 7d ago First seen · 138 lines · 43 tokens per session scan A 6e2b4eaed36a

Subscribe to this mod's changes

paper-summary is a skill published in the GitHub repository jimezsa/opencolab (11 stars, last pushed 24d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 43 tokens to every session and 1,310 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-30.