paper-for-beginners

paper-for-beginners is a skill for Claude Code from MRT-8/paper-for-beginners. It costs 144 tokens per session (1,831 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A Chinese-language guide that explains academic papers for people without a research background. It uses everyday language, examples, and stories while keeping the paper's main meaning accurate.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to find and explain papers, translate their abstracts, define key terms, describe the method step by step, and discuss experiments and limitations.
Why use it?
Research papers often assume knowledge of a field and use dense technical terms, making them hard for beginners or readers from other fields to follow.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the paper-for-beginners plugin — 1 skill shipped together

Good fit Use it to find and explain papers, translate their abstracts, define key terms, describe the method step by step, and discuss experiments and limitations.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/mrt-8/paper-for-beginners/paper-for-beginners
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 MRT-8/paper-for-beginners --skill paper-for-beginners
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/MRT-8/paper-for-beginners

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install paper-for-beginners, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill.

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Per session 144 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,831 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 $0.00144 $0.01831
Opus 5 $0.00072 $0.00915
Sonnet 5 $0.00029 $0.00366
Haiku 4.5 $0.00014 $0.00183

Measured 10d ago against content hash c7e713aa122b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

paper-for-beginners 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 10d 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

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

用 `curl` 直接调用 Notion API 写入(MCP 工具排版能力不足)。写入前先阅读 `references/notion-formatting.md` 了解完整的 block 结构、JSON 模板和排版规范。
skills/paper-for-beginners/SKILL.md · 98 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 98 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

小白读论文技能

将学术论文转化为零基础读者也能看懂的通俗解读,保留核心信息的同时去除专业门槛。

写作风格

  • 大白话优先:能用日常用语就不用专业术语
  • 比喻丰富:每个抽象概念都配一个生活化比喻
  • 故事感强:让读者感觉在听故事,而不是在读教科书
  • 准确不失真:通俗化不等于不准确,核心信息必须保留
  • 有温度:用"你可以这样理解""简单来说""打个比方"等口语化引导
  • 中文为主:专业术语首次出现时给出英文原文,后续使用中文

工作流程

第一步:查找论文

  1. 使用 WebSearch 搜索论文,优先查找正式发表版本(会议/期刊 > arXiv)
    • 搜索策略:先搜论文标题 + "paper"
    • 如果用户给的是 arXiv 链接,也搜索是否有正式发表版本
  2. 使用 WebFetch 获取论文内容(优先 HTML 版本)
  3. 搜索开源代码仓库(搜索"论文标题 github"或查看论文中的代码链接)

第二步:系统性阅读(内部分析,不直接输出)

按 Abstract → Introduction → Method → Experiments 顺序阅读,内部思考以下问题:

  1. 作者要做什么(1 句话概括)
  2. 难点在哪里
  3. 现有方法的痛点/不足是什么
  4. 作者的研究假设或核心直觉是什么
  5. 宏观上怎么解决的
  6. 技术细节(关键组件、步骤、每步的输入输出)
  7. 方法为什么有效
  8. 和主流方法的本质区别、适用场景
  9. 做了哪些关键实验,局限性在哪里
  10. 主要贡献是什么

第三步:小白化改写(10 个 Section)

Section 标题 内容要求
1 论文基本信息 标题(中英文)、作者/机构、发表venue、论文链接、代码链接 + 摘要中文翻译(忠实原文,通顺可读,单独用引用块展示)
2 一句话看懂 + 速记版流程 一句大白话概括这篇论文在做什么(侧重问题和方法,零术语)+ 3-5 步速记 pipeline(每步用自明性大白话,不用论文术语,读者只看这几步就能大体理解论文在做什么)
3 专业术语词典 8-15 个关键术语,格式:术语名 — 大白话解释 + 生活比喻
4 这个研究为什么要做 三段式动机分析:①旧方法哪里不好(痛点)→ ②新方法的灵感从哪来 → ③核心假设是什么。用大白话讲清"为什么需要这篇论文"
5 方法流程详解 每步严格按"吃进什么→做了什么→吐出什么"三段式描述,确保读者跟着走完就理解整个方法。如有关键公式/算法,用人话翻译其含义和在方法中的角色("这个公式其实就是在算…")
6 和别的方法比有什么不同 核心区别是什么、创新点在哪里、用简单对比表(旧方法 vs 新方法,列出优点/缺点/改进点)呈现、说明适合解决什么类型的问题
7 实验怎么做的、效果如何 ①实验设计思路(怎么验证的)→ ②关键结果("比XX好了多少")→ ③哪些场景下效果最好 → ④实验局限(没测哪些数据集、计算开销大不大、泛化验证是否充分)
8 故事版本 用完整比喻故事串联核心思想,3-5 段,有趣易记
9 论文亮点与不足 亮点 3-5 条 + 方法层面不足 2-3 条(设计缺陷、理论局限、适用范围窄等,和 Section 7 的实验局限不重复)
10 读完应该记住的 3-5 条 takeaway + 一句话读后收获("这篇论文最值得记住的是什么",侧重价值和启发,和 Section 2 的读前导读不重复)+ "想动手试试?"(开源情况、复现关键步骤、需要注意的超参数/数据预处理/训练细节、能否迁移到其他任务及如何迁移)

示例(Section 3 术语格式):

Attention 机制 — 让模型学会"重点看哪里"。就像你读长文章时眼睛会自动跳到加粗关键词上,attention 就是教 AI 做同样的事。

示例(Section 2 速记 pipeline 格式):

  1. 把图片切成小方块 → 2. 让每个方块互相"看看"对方 → 3. 综合所有方块的信息做判断

示例(Section 5 公式翻译格式):

论文里有个公式 L = -log P(y|x),翻译成人话:就是在算"模型猜对答案的概率有多高",概率越高这个值越小,所以训练目标就是让这个值尽量小。

Read the full file on GitHub · 98 lines

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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. 10d ago First seen · 98 lines · 144 tokens per session scan A c7e713aa122b

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paper-for-beginners is a skill published in the GitHub repository MRT-8/paper-for-beginners (3 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 144 tokens to every session and 1,831 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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