paper-comic

paper-comic is a skill for Claude Code from proyecto26/sherlock-ai-plugin. It costs 58 tokens per session (1,338 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A tool that turns academic papers into educational comic pages. It creates a storyboard, character references, image prompts, and comic images in one of four visual styles.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to explain a paper to students, non-specialists, or a wider audience. Provide a PDF, pasted paper text, and optionally a style such as tech or chalk.
Why use it?
It makes difficult research easier to follow by showing its ideas as a visual story instead of only as dense text.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions Codex.

Part of the sherlock-ai-plugin plugin — 6 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to explain a paper to students, non-specialists, or a wider audience. Provide a PDF, pasted paper text, and optionally a style such as tech or chalk.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/proyecto26/sherlock-ai-plugin/paper-comic
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 proyecto26/sherlock-ai-plugin --skill paper-comic
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/proyecto26/sherlock-ai-plugin

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install sherlock-ai-plugin, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 6 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-comic

README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 58 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,338 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: 3 findings, up to medium

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 →

  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 105
    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 111
    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 117
    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
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 $0.00058 $0.01338
Opus 5 $0.00029 $0.00669
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00268
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00134

Measured 7d ago against content hash c1723360ee89, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

paper-comic 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 7d 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.

skills/paper-comic/SKILL.md · 181 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 181 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Paper Comic - Academic Paper to Comic Generator

Transform academic papers into coherent educational comics, making complex concepts easier to understand through visual storytelling.

Usage

/paper-comic /path/to/paper.pdf
/paper-comic /path/to/paper.pdf --style tech
/paper-comic  # Then paste the paper content

Art Style Options

Style Features Suitable Papers
classic Clean-line style, simple and professional, easy to read General purpose, most papers (default)
tech Futuristic look, circuit and neon elements AI/Computer/Engineering papers
warm Gentle tone, nostalgic feeling, approachable Psychology/Cognitive Science/Education
chalk Blackboard effect, academic atmosphere Math/Physics/Theoretical papers

Output Structure

[output-dir]/
├── outline.md           # Storyboard and scene outline
├── characters/
│   ├── characters.md    # Character definitions
│   └── characters.png   # Character reference image
├── prompts/
│   ├── 00-cover.md      # Cover prompt
│   └── XX-page.md       # Page prompts
├── 00-cover.png         # Cover page
└── XX-page.png          # Comic pages

Output Directory:

  • If source files exist: [source-dir]/comic/
  • If no source files: comic-outputs/YYYY-MM-DD/[topic-slug]/

Workflow

Step 1: Analyze the Paper

  1. Read paper content (PDF or Markdown)
  2. Extract key information:
    • Paper title and authors
    • Research background and motivation
    • Core innovations (1–3)
    • Key methods/algorithms
    • Main experimental results
  3. Automatically recommend an art style based on the paper field (or use user-specified style)

Step 2: Design Narrative Structure

Four-part structure (suitable for 8–12 pages of comic):

Stage Pages Content
Introduction 1–2 pages Problem background — why the research is needed
Exploration 2–3 pages Limitations of existing methods, leading to innovation
Core 3–5 pages Explain the innovation in detail, visualized with metaphors
Summary 1–2 pages Experimental results, significance, and future outlook

Read the full file on GitHub · 181 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 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. 7d ago First seen · 181 lines · 58 tokens per session scan A c1723360ee89

Subscribe to this mod's changes

paper-comic is a skill published in the GitHub repository proyecto26/sherlock-ai-plugin (35 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 58 tokens to every session and 1,338 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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