paper-qa

paper-qa is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from shuishousong/zotero-ima-mcp. It costs 46 tokens per session (288 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A paper question-and-answer skill for quickly answering questions about one Zotero research paper from its locally available full text. Zotero is a tool for collecting and organizing research sources.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to summarize one paper, check a claim, or extract its methods, data, and conclusions.
Why use it?
It gives concise, traceable answers without creating a permanent analysis note.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to summarize one paper, check a claim, or extract its methods, data, and conclusions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/shuishousong/zotero-ima-mcp/paper-qa
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 shuishousong/zotero-ima-mcp --skill paper-qa
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/shuishousong/zotero-ima-mcp

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 46 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 288 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 $0.00046 $0.00288
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00144
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00058
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00029

Measured 11d ago against content hash 4e2d3a59fc13, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

paper-qa 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/paper-qa/SKILL.md · 26 lines

What it actually says

paper-qa

对单篇文献做快速问答,默认不写入 ima。回答必须可追溯:所有结论都来自 literature_paper_read 返回的本地 MinerU 全文。

触发条件

用户要求:单篇文献问答、这篇论文讲了什么、某结论的依据、这篇的方法/数据/结论等。

流程

  1. zotero_search_items 定位文献,取 zoteroKey
  2. 若该文献尚未导入,先 literature_import_item
  3. 调用 literature_paper_read(mode=overviewfull),必要时用 literature_retrieve 定位段落。
  4. 依据全文给出简洁回答,并标注出处段落。

输出要求

  • 回答基于全文,不编造文献中没有的内容。
  • 无法从全文回答时,明确说明"全文未覆盖该内容"。
  • 不调用任何写入类工具。
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 · 26 lines · 46 tokens per session scan A 4e2d3a59fc13

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paper-qa is a skill published in the GitHub repository shuishousong/zotero-ima-mcp (0 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 46 tokens to every session and 288 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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