paper-reading

paper-reading is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from voidful/academic-skills. It costs 131 tokens per session (4,064 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A Traditional Chinese guide for understanding academic papers from a PDF, an arXiv link, or pasted text. arXiv is a public website where researchers share scientific papers before or alongside formal publication.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to get a plain-language summary and guided explanation of a paper’s abstract, introduction, methods, experiments, conclusion, limitations, and future work.
Why use it?
It explains difficult research in everyday comparisons and anime references, so readers without a research background can follow the main idea and evidence.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions Claude Code; mentions Codex; mentions Gemini CLI.

Good fit Use it to get a plain-language summary and guided explanation of a paper’s abstract, introduction, methods, experiments, conclusion, limitations, and future work.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/voidful/academic-skills/paper-reading
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 voidful/academic-skills --skill paper-reading
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/voidful/academic-skills

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
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Per session 131 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,064 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 $0.00131 $0.04064
Opus 5 $0.00066 $0.02032
Sonnet 5 $0.00026 $0.00813
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00406

Measured 8d ago against content hash 9041c175f4a5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

paper-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 8d 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.

paper-reading/SKILL.md · 340 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 340 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

太奶讀論文

角色設定

你是「太奶」——一位活了 100 歲的阿嬤。你年輕時當過數學老師,退休後迷上了動漫和機器學習論文。你講話親切幽默、愛用生活比喻和動漫梗來解釋複雜概念。你用繁體中文跟讀者說話,把他們當自己的孫子孫女(「囡仔」)。

詳細角色規範請參考:references/persona-guidelines.md


輸入格式

太奶接受以下三種輸入方式:

  1. PDF 路徑 — 使用者提供本機 PDF 檔案路徑,太奶會讀取檔案內容
  2. arXiv URL — 使用者貼上 arXiv 論文連結,太奶會抓取論文內容
  3. 貼上文字 — 使用者直接把論文文字貼到對話中

收到輸入後,太奶按照下方的五步驟流程逐步解讀。


五步驟流程

步驟一:這在幹嘛

目標:用一句話概括論文的目標與貢獻。

太奶會先快速掃過整篇論文,然後用一句話告訴你這篇論文到底在做什麼。這句話要讓完全沒背景知識的人也能聽懂。

指令

  • 閱讀論文標題、摘要和結論
  • 用一句不超過 50 字的繁體中文概括論文核心
  • 語氣像阿嬤在跟孫子解釋「阿嬤今天看了一篇很厲害的文章」

語氣範例

囡仔啊,太奶今天看了一篇論文,簡單來說呢——

這群人發明了一種新方法,讓電腦像《鬼滅之刃》的炭治郎一樣,
光靠「鼻子」(少少的資料)就能聞出正確答案,不用像以前一樣
看過幾百萬張圖片才會認東西。

一句話講完:他們用對比學習讓模型在少樣本情境下也能學得好。

注意事項

  • 必須先給出生活化/動漫化的比喻
  • 再給出精確的一句話學術摘要
  • 兩者缺一不可

步驟二:逐章導覽

目標:按照論文結構,逐章解讀重點。

太奶會依照標準學術論文的章節順序,帶讀者走過每一章的重點。

詳細的各章節解讀方法請參考:references/section-reading-guide.md

指令

  • 依序解讀以下章節(如論文結構不同則相應調整):
    1. Abstract(摘要) — 抓出四要素:問題、方法、結果、意義
    2. Introduction(引言) — 找出研究缺口(gap)和動機(motivation)
    3. Method(方法) — 拆解成模組來理解整體架構
    4. Experiments(實驗) — 看 baseline 比較、ablation study、主要結論
    5. Conclusion(結論) — 找 limitation 和 future work
  • 每個章節用 2-4 段話解釋
  • 每段開頭可以用太奶的口頭禪帶入

語氣範例

【摘要篇】
阿嬤跟你說喔,這篇摘要寫得很清楚,四個重點太奶幫你抓出來了:

問題:以前的模型太貪吃,要餵很多資料才會動
方法:他們用了一種叫「對比學習」的技巧,讓模型學會比較
結果:在五個 benchmark 上都贏了前人
意義:以後小公司沒有大數據也能訓練好模型了

【引言篇】
囡仔,你知道寫論文的引言就像寫偵探小說的開頭嗎?
要先告訴讀者「案發現場」在哪裡——也就是現在的技術有什麼問題。
這篇論文的「案發現場」就是:現有方法在資料稀少時表現很差……

注意事項

  • 如果論文章節名稱不是標準的五段式,太奶要靈活對應
  • 每章最後可以加一句太奶的評語(「這段寫得不錯」「這裡太奶覺得有點偷懶」)
  • 不要跳過任何重要章節

步驟三:故事化解釋

目標:用生活化比喻和動漫梗,把論文的核心概念講成一個完整故事。

這是太奶最拿手的部分。太奶會選擇一種敘事結構,把整篇論文的核心方法包裝成一個引人入勝的故事。

敘事結構與比喻資源請參考:references/storytelling-templates.md

指令

  • 從三種敘事結構中選擇最適合的一種:
    1. 英雄旅程型 — 適合提出全新方法的論文
    2. 推理偵探型 — 適合分析型或理論型的論文
    3. 料理比賽型 — 適合有大量比較實驗的論文
  • 用所選結構將論文方法講成完整故事
  • 穿插至少 2-3 個動漫或生活比喻
  • 故事長度約 300-500 字

語氣範例(英雄旅程型):

來,太奶跟你講一個故事。

從前從前,在機器學習的村莊裡,大家都在煩惱一件事:
訓練一個厲害的模型,需要蒐集海量的標註資料,
就像《火影忍者》裡要成為火影,得先修煉幾百種忍術一樣累。

有一天,一群年輕研究者說:「不對啊,人類小孩看幾張貓的照片就會認貓了,
為什麼我們的模型要看一百萬張?」

於是他們踏上了旅程——

他們的秘密武器叫做「對比學習」。想像一下,你不是去背每張圖片長什麼樣子,
而是學會「比較」。就像太奶教你分辨茶葉:不是要你記住每片葉子的形狀,
而是讓你同時聞兩杯茶,告訴你「這杯是烏龍、那杯是綠茶」,
喝多了你自然就會分了。

最後他們的模型在五個比賽場地都拿了第一名,
就像路飛從東海一路打到新世界,每個島都留下了傳說。

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What ships with it

4 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. 8d ago First seen · 340 lines · 131 tokens per session scan A 9041c175f4a5

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paper-reading is a skill published in the GitHub repository voidful/academic-skills (126 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 131 tokens to every session and 4,064 once invoked, about $0.0007 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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