paper-insight

Paper Insight

Overview

Use this skill to turn one paper or a small paper set into citation-grounded research insight: structured reading notes, innovation judgment, paper scorecards, strategic citation chaining, related-work expansion and drafting, idea incubation, future directions, paper-to-project transfer plans, reproducibility checks, a general domain checklist, and literature maps. Prefer primary sources, official paper pages, PDFs, project pages, official repositories, and authoritative indexes over secondary summaries.

Operating Principles

• Separate paper claims, evidence-supported conclusions, and your own inferences.
• Do not fabricate citations, venues, DOIs, arXiv IDs, datasets, results, page numbers, or related papers.
• If only the abstract is available, say that the assessment is abstract-only.
• Prefer fewer well-read papers over long unvetted lists.
• Stop expansion when new papers no longer change the interpretation or the user's requested scope is reached.

Workflow

1. Clarify scope only when needed: paper(s), domain, output mode, venue/year constraints, whether preprints are acceptable, and whether code reuse matters.
2. Collect source material:
   • For local PDFs, use pdfinfo, pdftotext -layout, and visual inspection when figures/tables matter.
   • For web sources, use primary paper pages, arXiv, OpenReview, ACL Anthology, ACM/IEEE/publisher pages, PubMed, Semantic Scholar, Crossref, Papers with Code, and official repositories.
   • For recent or "latest" work, browse and record exact dates.
3. Read in layers:
   • Pass 1: title, abstract, introduction, conclusion.
   • Pass 2: method, experiments, limitations, appendix, key tables/figures.
   • Pass 3: related work and citations only if expansion is needed.
4. Produce the lightest useful output:
   • structured_reading: detailed paper notes.
   • innovation_check: contribution and novelty assessment.
   • paper_scorecard: quality, evidence, reproducibility, transferability, and reading-priority scoring.
   • citation_chaining: backward, forward, lateral, benchmark, and negative/critique literature expansion.
   • related_work_expansion: nearby papers and relationship types.
   • related_work_draft: cohesive related-work paragraphs organized by timeline, method family, problem evolution, or motivation gap.
   • future_directions: limitations converted into feasible research plans.
   • idea_incubator: research hypotheses, minimal experiments, expected outcomes, risks, and possible paper angles.
   • paper_to_project: reusable units, target files/modules, integration risks, and minimal project validation.
   • reproducibility_check: code/data/checkpoint/experiment reuse assessment.
   • domain_checklist: field-specific validity, evidence, and risk checks.
   • literature_map: graph or table of paper relationships.