paper-reviewer

paper-reviewer is a skill for Codex from LiYu0524/Auto-Reasearch-Skills. It costs 68 tokens per session (1,009 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A skill for reading research papers, especially PDF files, and explaining them in Chinese before giving a reviewer-style critique. It covers the paper's purpose, new ideas, evidence, strengths, weaknesses, and questions for the authors.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review a local PDF or a paper identified by an arXiv link, DOI, or citation, with attention to the method, experiments, implementation, or critique.
Why use it?
It gives readers a structured explanation of a paper and turns a general reading task into specific review points.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present.

Good fit Use it to review a local PDF or a paper identified by an arXiv link, DOI, or citation, with attention to the method, experiments, implementation, or critique.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/liyu0524/auto-reasearch-skills/paper-reviewer
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 LiYu0524/Auto-Reasearch-Skills --skill paper-reviewer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/LiYu0524/Auto-Reasearch-Skills

Made for: Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 68 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,009 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 $0.00068 $0.01009
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.00504
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00202
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00101

Measured 13d ago against content hash 1fa52a7c021e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

paper-reviewer 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 13d ago.

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

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.

skills/paper-reviewer/SKILL.md · 100 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 100 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Paper Reviewer

Overview

Read a paper end-to-end (prefer PDF), then produce a teachable explanation and a reviewer-style critique: content summary, innovation points, evidence quality, and actionable concerns.

Quick Start (Inputs)

  • Paper: local PDF path (preferred), or arXiv/DOI/citation.
  • Audience: beginner / familiar-with-field / expert.
  • Focus: method / experiments / critique / implementation.
  • Depth: 10-min / 30-min / 90-min talk notes (default: 30-min).
  • Target venue (optional): e.g., NeurIPS/ICLR/ACL, or "internal reading group".

If the user does not specify, assume: audience="熟悉基础 ML", focus="method + experiments + critique", depth="30-min", language="Chinese".

Workflow

1) Identify the paper

  • If multiple PDFs exist, ask which one to review.
  • Record title/authors/venue/year (as shown), and page count.

2) Extract text and render pages (prefer visual skim)

  • Use the helper script to extract per-page text and (optionally) render pages to PNG for figure/table inspection:
    • python3 skills/paper-reviewer/scripts/dump_paper_pdf.py --pdf "<PATH>" --out-dir "tmp/paper-review/<slug>" --render
  • If rendering fails (missing fitz/PyMuPDF), rerun without --render and continue.

3) First pass: map the paper (10-20 min)

  • Identify:
    • Problem setting, inputs/outputs, assumptions.
    • 3-5 core contributions (claimed novelty).
    • The "main loop" of the method in one paragraph.
    • Which experiments are intended to support which claims.

4) Second pass: teach the method

  • Explain in this order (even if the paper orders differently):
    1. Problem + why it matters.
    2. Baseline mental model (what a reasonable approach would do).
    3. What is new (the delta vs baselines/prior work).
    4. Method (step-by-step; pseudocode-level).
    5. Complexity and failure modes.
  • For equations: explain what each term does, not just restate symbols.
  • When referencing results, cite section/figure/table numbers (and page numbers if helpful).

Read the full file on GitHub · 100 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 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. 13d ago First seen · 100 lines · 68 tokens per session scan A 1fa52a7c021e

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paper-reviewer is a skill published in the GitHub repository LiYu0524/Auto-Reasearch-Skills (11 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 68 tokens to every session and 1,009 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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