analyze-paper

analyze-paper is a skill for Claude Code from SebastianElvis/reaper. It costs 42 tokens per session (1,295 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A workflow for extracting structured technical information from an academic research paper, such as its system, theorems, proofs, complexity claims, and warning signs.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to analyze or summarize a paper, optionally judging how relevant it is to a specific research goal.
Why use it?
It turns a paper into organized notes that are easier to understand and use in later research or implementation work.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter.

Needs its repository: it reads a path above its own folder, which exists only inside the repository. The line is [Extract all model dimensions relevant to the paper's domain. Consult `../reaper/references/model.md` for the domain-appropriate dimensions to extract. Every ap.

Part of the reaper plugin — 10 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to analyze or summarize a paper, optionally judging how relevant it is to a specific research goal.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/SebastianElvis/reaper
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/sebastianelvis/reaper/analyze-paper

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install reaper, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 10 skills.

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Per session 42 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,295 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.
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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 $0.00042 $0.01295
Opus 5 $0.00021 $0.00647
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00259
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00129

Measured 11d ago against content hash 1d271fce43da, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

analyze-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 11d 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/analyze-paper/SKILL.md · 115 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 115 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Analyze Paper

Extract structured information from an academic paper, producing a comprehensive summary that downstream skills can build on.

Usage

Invoke this skill by name with the paper path (and optional flags). On slash-command hosts, prefix with / (e.g. /analyze-paper <args>).

# Analyze the primary paper under study
analyze-paper path/to/paper.pdf

# Analyze a literature paper with research goal as context
analyze-paper reaper-workspace/papers/2024-1234.pdf --goal "post-quantum threshold signatures" --output reaper-workspace/papers/2024-1234-notes.md

Argument parsing: The first non-flag argument is the paper path. Optional flags:

  • --output <path>: Write output to the given path instead of the default reaper-workspace/notes/paper-summary.md.
  • --goal "<text>": The research goal as additional context. When provided, the output includes a Relevance section assessing how the paper relates to this goal, and reading depth is calibrated by relevance (see Step 1).

Instructions

1. Read the Paper

Read the paper at the provided path using your host's file-read primitive (works for PDFs and text files on hosts that support PDF reading; otherwise extract text first).

Follow the three-pass strategy from ../reaper/references/paper-analysis.md:

  • Pass 1 (skeleton): Abstract, introduction, conclusion, theorem statements. Identify the main claims.
  • Pass 2 (construction): Protocol details, proof sketches, figures. Understand the key technical idea.
  • Pass 3 (proofs): Full formal proofs, appendices, security reductions. Verify logical steps.

When --goal is provided, calibrate depth by relevance to the goal: Pass 1 for all papers; Pass 2 for medium-relevance; all three passes for high-relevance papers.

2. Extract Information

For each section below, extract the relevant information. When extracting theorem statements or formal claims, copy them verbatim — do not paraphrase.

Critical: Distinguish what the paper claims (in the introduction, abstract) from what it actually proves (in the theorems, proofs). Note any discrepancies.

Read the full file on GitHub · 115 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. 11d ago First seen · 115 lines · 42 tokens per session scan A 1d271fce43da

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analyze-paper is a skill published in the GitHub repository SebastianElvis/reaper (9 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 42 tokens to every session and 1,295 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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