paper-deep-reading

paper-deep-reading is a skill for Codex from Robertmorrisluminousenergy177/paper-deep-reading-skill. It costs 113 tokens per session (855 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A study aid for reading journal and research-paper PDFs, including papers from repositories such as bioRxiv, which shares scientific papers before formal journal review.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to read papers paragraph by paragraph, explain technical ideas for beginners, document figures, build an Obsidian note, or export the result as a PDF.
Why use it?
It turns difficult papers into organized notes with explanations, translations, figures, and unanswered questions.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present. Also seen: mentions Codex.

Good fit Use it to read papers paragraph by paragraph, explain technical ideas for beginners, document figures, build an Obsidian note, or export the result as a PDF.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/robertmorrisluminousenergy177/paper-deep-reading-skill/paper-deep-reading
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add Robertmorrisluminousenergy177/paper-deep-reading-skill --skill paper-deep-reading
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Robertmorrisluminousenergy177/paper-deep-reading-skill

Made for: Codex.

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Per session 113 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 855 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 $0.00113 $0.00855
Opus 5 $0.00056 $0.00428
Sonnet 5 $0.00023 $0.00171
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00085

Measured 10d ago against content hash dcd75adc98f6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

paper-deep-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 10d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 4 executable files (scripts/export_obsidian_note_pdf.js, scripts/extract_pdf_assets.py, scripts/validate_note_structure.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-deep-reading/SKILL.md · 55 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 55 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Paper Deep Reading

Purpose

Turn a journal paper into a polished learning artifact: one main Obsidian Markdown note with paragraph-level translation, placed figures, detailed figure notes, beginner explanations, glossary support, a question log, and optional PDF export.

Use the PDF skill or an equivalent render-and-inspect workflow whenever the source is a PDF. For two-column journal articles, rendered pages are the source of truth for reading order and figure placement.

Default Workflow

  1. Inspect the source PDF: title, authors, sections, page count, figures, captions, tables, references to supplements, and any copyright-sensitive constraints.
  2. Create a vault-style output folder with assets/figures/, exports/, and one main Markdown note unless the user asks for multiple notes.
  3. Translate and explain paragraph by paragraph. Number natural paragraphs as P01, P02, etc.; correct OCR or extraction order against page renders.
  4. Insert each figure near the paragraph that first uses it. Store images under assets/figures/ with stable descriptive names.
  5. For every main figure, write a figure note that explains what type of figure it is, what each panel does, what claim it supports, why it matters, and why the authors included it.
  6. Add beginner support at first use of key concepts, methods, axes, formulas, materials, and mechanisms. Mark claim boundaries: measured, calculated, inferred, or proposed.
  7. Maintain a question log for knowledge questions. Merge repeated questions into the closest existing entry instead of duplicating long explanations.
  8. Verify Markdown links, figure paths, section coverage, and whether the output is readable in Obsidian.
  9. Export to PDF only when requested. Render the note, inspect representative pages visually, and place final PDFs in exports/.

Required References

Read only the reference files needed for the user's request:

  • references/reading-workflow.md: full paper-to-note workflow and quality gates.
  • references/figure-note-guide.md: how to crop, place, and explain figures.
  • references/beginner-explanation-guide.md: how to explain a difficult field to a novice without oversimplifying.
  • references/obsidian-note-style.md: note structure, callouts, links, and CSS expectations.
  • references/question-log-guide.md: how to maintain the learning question log and merge repeated concepts.

Read the full file on GitHub · 55 lines

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. 10d ago First seen · 55 lines · 113 tokens per session scan A dcd75adc98f6

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paper-deep-reading is a skill published in the GitHub repository Robertmorrisluminousenergy177/paper-deep-reading-skill (1 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 113 tokens to every session and 855 once invoked, about $0.0006 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 2026-08-31.

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