paper_claw

paper_claw is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from PigeonDan1/paper_claw. It costs 31 tokens per session (3,262 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A paper-digest tool that fetches research papers from sources such as arXiv, a public archive for scientific preprints, then classifies and summarizes them. It can translate summaries into seven languages and send digests by email.

In plain words
What is it for?
Collecting papers by category, generating summaries with supported AI providers, translating them, preparing Markdown and HTML digests, emailing recipients, and managing settings through configuration files.
Why use it?
It reduces the work of monitoring research sources and reading every paper in full to decide what matters. It also remembers processed papers to avoid repeating them.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Needs its repository: it runs a file that does not travel with it, so clone the repository first. The line is python scripts/main.py.

Good fit Collecting papers by category, generating summaries with supported AI providers, translating them, preparing Markdown and HTML digests, emailing recipients, and managing settings through configuration files.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/PigeonDan1/paper_claw
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/pigeondan1/paper_claw/skill

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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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.

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Per session 31 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,262 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 warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to high

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • high Memory Poisoning · line 432
    Skill manipulates agent memory, state, or stored context. Memory corruption can alter personality, override safety rules, or cause unpredictable behavior.
    Fix: Protect agent memory and state from modification by untrusted content. Use read-only memory for critical instructions and validate all state changes.
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 $0.00031 $0.03262
Opus 5.5 $0.00012 $0.01305
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00006 $0.00652
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00326

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 788f8d45f7b3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

paper_claw 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 1mo ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (example.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.

skill/SKILL.md · 444 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 444 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Paper Claw Skill

Intelligent multi-source paper digest generator. Automatically fetch, classify, and summarize papers with AI-powered translations in 7 languages.

Features

  • 🌐 Multi-Source Support — arXiv (170+ categories), extensible for CNKI, Web of Science
  • 🗣️ Multi-Language — Chinese, English, Japanese, Korean, German, French, Spanish
  • 🤖 Multi-Provider LLM — Kimi, OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek with auto-fallback
  • 📧 Email Delivery — HTML digests with full Markdown attachment
  • 👥 Recipient Management — JSON-based configuration
  • ⚙️ Config-Driven — Zero-code customization
  • 🔄 State Persistence — Auto-deduplication

Setup

1. Environment Variables

Required for email delivery:

export SMTP_HOST="smtp.qq.com"
export SMTP_PORT="465"
export SMTP_USER="[email protected]"
export SMTP_PASS="your-auth-code"

Optional for AI summaries (multiple providers supported):

# Primary: Kimi AI (recommended for Chinese)
export MOONSHOT_API_KEY="sk-your-kimi-key"

# Alternatives (auto-fallback)
export OPENAI_API_KEY="sk-your-openai-key"
export ANTHROPIC_API_KEY="sk-your-claude-key"
export GOOGLE_API_KEY="your-gemini-key"
export DEEPSEEK_API_KEY="sk-your-deepseek-key"

2. Recipient Configuration

Create config/recipients.json:

{
  "recipients": [
    {"email": "[email protected]", "name": "Professor", "enabled": true},
    {"email": "[email protected]", "name": "Student", "enabled": true}
  ]
}

3. Source & Category Configuration

Edit config/default.json to customize sources:

{
  "sources": {
    "arxiv": {
      "enabled": true,
      "categories": [
        {"id": "cs.CL", "name": "NLP", "url": "https://arxiv.org/list/cs.CL/recent"},
        {"id": "cs.CV", "name": "Computer Vision", "url": "https://arxiv.org/list/cs.CV/recent"}
      ]
    }
  }
}

See config/arxiv_categories.json for all 170+ available categories.

4. Language Configuration

{
  "language": {
    "default": "zh",
    "supported": ["zh", "en", "ja", "ko", "de", "fr", "es"]
  }
}

Read the full file on GitHub · 444 lines

Files

What ships with it

8 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. 1mo ago First seen · 444 lines · 31 tokens per session scan A 788f8d45f7b3

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paper_claw is a skill published in the GitHub repository PigeonDan1/paper_claw (39 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 31 tokens to every session and 3,262 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-08-30.