clear-eyed-deep-reading

clear-eyed-deep-reading is a skill for Codex from JinPLu/clear-eyed-reading-skills. It costs 117 tokens per session (3,717 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A method for closely reading and evaluating research papers, technical writing, and other long-form technical work. It reconstructs how the work operates, where its abilities come from, and whether its conclusions are supported.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps analyze a paper or technical article's mechanism, sources of capability, novelty compared with earlier work, reported results, and the strength of its conclusions.
Why use it?
It helps readers look past branding and terminology to distinguish the actual contribution from inherited methods, assumptions, implementation choices, and weak evidence.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present. Also seen: mentions subagents.

Good fit It helps analyze a paper or technical article's mechanism, sources of capability, novelty compared with earlier work, reported results, and the strength of its conclusions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jinplu/clear-eyed-reading-skills/clear-eyed-deep-reading
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 JinPLu/clear-eyed-reading-skills --skill clear-eyed-deep-reading
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/JinPLu/clear-eyed-reading-skills

Made for: Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 117 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,717 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 $0.00117 $0.03717
Opus 5 $0.00059 $0.01858
Sonnet 5 $0.00023 $0.00743
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00372

Measured 12d ago against content hash 21ec04271b31, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

clear-eyed-deep-reading 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 12d 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

skills/clear-eyed-deep-reading/SKILL.md · 131 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 131 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Shared Clear-Eyed Reading Core

Help a reader with no prior exposure understand the work and take back interpretive and evaluative control from the authors' terminology, branding, and narrative. Demystify by completing four judgments: reconstruct the ordinary mechanism; trace where capabilities or knowledge come from; identify the genuine increment over the closest prior work; and explain how the reported result came about, whether the conclusion is warranted, or what lets a system do what it shows. Let this independent reconstruction raise or lower the evaluation. Critique claims and evidence, never the authors.

Four judgments

Keep these four judgments, and do not substitute a summary, a limitation list, or a popularity report for any of them:

  1. Ordinary mechanism — after names and branding are removed, what enters, what happens, and what leaves.
  2. Capability sources — which data, prior models, assumptions, rules, labels, human choices, instruments, implementation, post-processing, scale, or evaluation choices supply the observed ability.
  3. Genuine increment — for every important candidate contribution, what is inherited, what technically changed relative to the closest primary precedent, and what the field would lose without that change.
  4. Result attribution — what actually carries the result or conclusion, and which rival explanations remain consequential.

Scale verification to risk and depth

Identify the work and the version the conclusion will rest on. Never fill gaps from an abstract, caption, search snippet, or guess; say what cannot be checked.

Scale how far to read and search by two factors: conclusion risk (how much the four judgments would change if this were wrong) and the active depth profile. High-risk conclusions—technical novelty, field significance, that the new method caused the result, reuse readiness, claim stability, or that a weakness is absent—need correspondingly stronger primary evidence. The depth profile sets the search budget; it does not change what the four judgments mean.

Read the full file on GitHub · 131 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 12d ago First seen · 131 lines · 117 tokens per session scan A 21ec04271b31

Subscribe to this mod's changes

clear-eyed-deep-reading is a skill published in the GitHub repository JinPLu/clear-eyed-reading-skills (4 stars, last pushed 26d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 117 tokens to every session and 3,717 once invoked, about $0.0006 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 2026-08-31.

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