paper-reader

paper-reader is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Light-zju/research-toolkit. It costs 75 tokens per session (437 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A paper-reading skill that explains a research paper's purpose, method, evidence, and results in an efficient structure.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to extract paper metadata, summarize the problem and method, interpret experiments, and find related code or project pages.
Why use it?
It helps you understand a paper without having to decode its terminology, experiments, and conclusions unaided.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the research-toolkit plugin — 5 skills shipped together

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/light-zju/research-toolkit/paper-reader
Any agent
npx skills add Light-zju/research-toolkit --skill paper-reader
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Light-zju/research-toolkit

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install research-toolkit, 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.

agentmods badge for paper-reader

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/light-zju/research-toolkit/paper-reader.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/light-zju/research-toolkit/paper-reader)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/light-zju/research-toolkit/paper-reader"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/light-zju/research-toolkit/paper-reader.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 75 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 437 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. 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 $0.00075 $0.00437
Opus 5 $0.00037 $0.00218
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00087
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00044

Measured 5d ago against content hash 21736e5db9e9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

paper-reader 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 5d 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.

paper-reader/SKILL.md · 151 lines

What it actually says

Read before execution:

../references/research-principles.md ../references/evidence-policy.md ../references/search-policy.md ../references/failure-handling.md

Load domain-expansions.md when required.

Paper Reader

Purpose:

Help users understand a paper efficiently.

Focus on understanding rather than evaluation.

Scope

Primary:

  • understanding
  • explanation
  • interpretation

Secondary:

  • brief assessment
  • resource discovery

Not responsible for:

  • detailed review
  • implementation planning
  • research proposal generation

Workflow

  1. Metadata

Extract:

  • Title
  • Authors
  • Affiliation
  • Venue
  • Year
  • DOI
  • Code Repository
  • Project Page

  1. Executive Summary

Answer:

  • What problem is solved?
  • Why does it matter?
  • What is proposed?
  • What are the key results?

  1. Problem & Motivation

Explain:

  • research problem
  • existing limitations
  • motivation

  1. Method

Explain:

  • inputs
  • outputs
  • pipeline
  • key modules
  • important equations

Focus on intuition before details.


  1. Experiments

Explain:

  • datasets
  • baselines
  • metrics
  • findings

Interpret results.

Do not merely repeat tables.


  1. Figures & Tables

For each figure/table:

  • what it shows
  • key observation
  • significance

  1. Knowledge Graph

Build a structured concept hierarchy.


  1. Learning Roadmap

Provide:

  • essential prerequisites
  • recommended topics
  • advanced topics

  1. Quick Assessment

Briefly identify:

  • novelty
  • limitations
  • practical applications

Keep concise.

Do not perform full review.

Output Style

Use clear structure.

Use intuitive explanations.

Prefer understanding over technical jargon.

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. 5d ago First seen · 151 lines · 75 tokens per session scan A 21736e5db9e9

Subscribe to this mod's changes

paper-reader is a skill published in the GitHub repository Light-zju/research-toolkit (5 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 75 tokens to every session and 437 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 2026-08-31.

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