paper-review

paper-review is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from RapidAI/MaClaw. It costs 65 tokens per session (1,727 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

An end-to-end tool for studying academic papers. It downloads a paper PDF, explains its question, new ideas, methods, and experiments, extracts PDF images, and creates a presentation and MP3 audio explanation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to prepare a deep review of a research paper, extract figures, make a presentation for a research group meeting, or create an audio summary.
Why use it?
It brings several paper-review tasks into one workflow instead of requiring separate tools for reading, presenting, and listening.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to prepare a deep review of a research paper, extract figures, make a presentation for a research group meeting, or create an audio summary.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/rapidai/maclaw/paper-review
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 RapidAI/MaClaw --skill paper-review
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/RapidAI/MaClaw

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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.

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README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/rapidai/maclaw/paper-review/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/rapidai/maclaw/paper-review)
Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 65 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,727 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 $0.00065 $0.01727
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.00864
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00345
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00173

Measured 9d ago against content hash ca44c19c9fc9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

paper-review 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 9d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 7 executable files (run.py, steps/analyze_paper.py, steps/download_paper.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.

paper-review/SKILL.md · 198 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

Read it on GitHub

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. 9d ago First seen · 198 lines · 65 tokens per session scan A ca44c19c9fc9

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paper-review is a skill published in the GitHub repository RapidAI/MaClaw (141 stars, last pushed 9d ago), with no licence file. It adds 65 tokens to every session and 1,727 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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