reviewing-ai-papers

reviewing-ai-papers is a skill for Claude Code from oaustegard/claude-skills. It costs 105 tokens per session (1,766 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A review method for AI and machine-learning papers, preprints, articles, and technical blog posts. It extracts practical implications for enterprise AI engineers.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review material about retrieval-augmented generation, embeddings, fine-tuning, prompts, agents, or model deployment.
Why use it?
It turns dense AI research into implementation and operations considerations for engineering teams.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the ai-and-reasoning plugin — 5 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to review material about retrieval-augmented generation, embeddings, fine-tuning, prompts, agents, or model deployment.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/oaustegard/claude-skills/reviewing-ai-papers
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 oaustegard/claude-skills --skill reviewing-ai-papers
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/oaustegard/claude-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install ai-and-reasoning, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 5 skills.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Per session 105 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,766 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00105 $0.01766
Opus 5.5 $0.00042 $0.00706
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00021 $0.00353
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00177

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 0127ca2c5a4e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

reviewing-ai-papers 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 2mo 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.

plugins/ai-and-reasoning/skills/reviewing-ai-papers/SKILL.md · 193 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 193 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Reviewing AI Papers

When users request analysis of AI/ML technical content (papers, articles, blog posts), extract actionable insights filtered through an enterprise AI engineering lens and store valuable discoveries to memory for cross-session recall.

When NOT to use this skill

The subject matter has to be machine learning. Adjacent asks that are not:

Situation Use
"Does this text read as AI-written?" declauding
Register or voice pass on a draft declauding
Review a pull request or a diff code-review
A paper outside ML read it directly; this skill's lens will not fit

"AI" appearing in the request is not the trigger — AI being the topic of the document is.

Contextual Priorities

Technical Architecture:

  • RAG systems (semantic/lexical search, hybrid retrieval)
  • Vector database optimization and embedding strategies
  • Model fine-tuning for specialized scientific domains
  • Knowledge distillation for secure on-premise deployment

Implementation & Operations:

  • Prompt engineering and in-context learning techniques
  • Security and IP protection in AI systems
  • Scientific accuracy and hallucination mitigation
  • AWS integration (Bedrock/SageMaker)

Enterprise & Adoption:

  • Enterprise deployment in regulated environments
  • Building trust with scientific/legal stakeholders
  • Internal customer success strategies
  • Build vs. buy decision frameworks

Analytical Standards

  • Maintain objectivity: Extract factual insights without amplifying source hype
  • Challenge novelty claims: Identify what practitioners already use as baselines. Distinguish "applies existing techniques" from "genuinely new methods". The procedure for this is "The ablation the paper did not run" below. Run it; do not improvise a judgement
  • Separate rigor from novelty: Well-executed study of standard techniques ≠ methodological breakthrough
  • Confidence transparency: Distinguish established facts, emerging trends, speculative claims
  • Contextual filtering: Prioritize insights mapping to current challenges

Read the full file on GitHub · 193 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. 2mo ago Changed · +53 lines 0127ca2c5a4e
  2. 2mo ago First seen · 140 lines · 105 tokens per session scan A 987643461014

Subscribe to this mod's changes

reviewing-ai-papers is a skill published in the GitHub repository oaustegard/claude-skills (374 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 105 tokens to every session and 1,766 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-09-03.

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