explain-paper

explain-paper is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from raphaelmansuy/edgequake. It costs 0 tokens per session (148 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A procedure for explaining a research paper using documents returned by EdgeQuake, a document-search system. It requires finding the paper, searching its contents, fetching relevant sections, and citing document and page or chunk identifiers.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to locate a paper in the available document collection, retrieve relevant passages, and produce a cited explanation.
Why use it?
It keeps the explanation tied to searchable evidence instead of inventing a document list or claiming unsupported content.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to locate a paper in the available document collection, retrieve relevant passages, and produce a cited explanation.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/raphaelmansuy/edgequake/explain-paper
About the project

EdgeQuake is a Rust framework that turns documents into knowledge graphs for GraphRAG, a retrieval-and-generation approach that uses linked facts to help language models find relevant information. It is used to build applications that search and generate answers from document collections.

raphaelmansuy/edgequake · 2,261 stars · on GitHub · edgequake.com

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 raphaelmansuy/edgequake --skill explain-paper
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/raphaelmansuy/edgequake

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 0 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 148 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 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 $0.00000 $0.00148
Opus 5.5 $0.00000 $0.00059
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00000 $0.00030
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00015

Measured 16d ago against content hash 9180c0d479cd, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

explain-paper 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 16d 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.

mcp/skills/explain-paper/SKILL.md · 11 lines

What it actually says

Skill: explain a paper

Use EdgeQuake MCP tools as evidence — never invent document lists.

  1. eq_document_list — find the PDF by file_name / title.
  2. Call eq_search with document_ids: [<id>] and a focused query.
  3. eq_fetch(view=toc) on the retrieval_id.
  4. Escalate to view=chunks or eq_neighborhood only if needed.
  5. If truncation.truncated, follow next_cursor before concluding the corpus is small.
  6. Cite document_id + chunk/page from the tool results. Do not claim an LLM essay from EdgeQuake.
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. 16d ago First seen · 11 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 9180c0d479cd

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explain-paper is a skill published in the GitHub repository raphaelmansuy/edgequake (2,261 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 148 tokens. 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 2026-09-30.

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