critical-paper-reading

critical-paper-reading is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from qiaomiaojoe/ai-academic-workflow. It costs 191 tokens per session (2,894 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A paper-reading workflow for critically examining one research paper from a PDF or Zotero item. Zotero is a tool for organising research papers and references.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for producing structured critical-reading notes about a single paper without making up details.
Why use it?
It helps separate what a paper says from how well its claims, authorship, sources, timing, and writing support those claims, while linking notes to page numbers.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — body not stored (licence); the path alone says nothing.

Good fit It is for producing structured critical-reading notes about a single paper without making up details.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/qiaomiaojoe/ai-academic-workflow/critical-paper-reading
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 qiaomiaojoe/ai-academic-workflow --skill critical-paper-reading
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/qiaomiaojoe/ai-academic-workflow

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 191 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,894 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 unknown 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 $0.00191 $0.02894
Opus 5.5 $0.00076 $0.01158
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00038 $0.00579
Haiku 4.5 $0.00019 $0.00289

Measured today against content hash e604454cbdaf, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

critical-paper-reading 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 today.

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/critical-paper-reading/SKILL.md · 214 lines

The source is not reproduced here

A licence we could not identify

The repository carries a LICENSE file, but it is custom or dual enough that GitHub cannot name it and neither can this catalogue. Unknown terms are not permission, so the body is not copied here. Read the licence at the source and decide for yourself.

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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. today Changed · +191 tokens per session e604454cbdaf
  2. 3d ago Changed · +1 lines f675f273ad97
  3. 4d ago Changed 9b070990b3e9
  4. 8d ago Changed · +1 lines 24b13cca92a4
  5. 1mo ago First seen · 212 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 01efad330359

Subscribe to this mod's changes

critical-paper-reading is a skill published in the GitHub repository qiaomiaojoe/ai-academic-workflow (9 stars, last pushed today), with no licence file. It adds 191 tokens to every session and 2,894 once invoked, about $0.0008 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 2026-08-31.

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