paper-summarizer

paper-summarizer is a skill for Claude Code from waybarrios/opencode-power-pack. It costs 46 tokens per session (934 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A skill for turning academic and technical papers into structured, evidence-linked summaries. It covers papers from places such as arXiv, a preprint repository, and research databases such as PubMed, which indexes medical studies.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to summarize papers, review methods and limitations, extract engineering implications, and build a claim-to-evidence map.
Why use it?
It makes research findings easier to understand and check by separating the problem, method, results, limitations, and practical meaning, while pointing each claim to the paper's section, figure, or table.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the opencode-power-pack plugin — 55 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to summarize papers, review methods and limitations, extract engineering implications, and build a claim-to-evidence map.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/waybarrios/opencode-power-pack/paper-summarizer
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 waybarrios/opencode-power-pack --skill paper-summarizer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/waybarrios/opencode-power-pack

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install opencode-power-pack, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 55 skills.

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 46 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 934 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00934
Opus 5.5 $0.00018 $0.00374
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00009 $0.00187
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00093

Measured 1mo ago against content hash be91c68b3b58, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

paper-summarizer 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 1mo 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

skills/paper-summarizer/SKILL.md · 111 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 111 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Paper Summarizer

Extract actionable insights from academic and technical papers.

Summary Format

# Paper Summary: <Paper Title>

**Authors:** [Author list]
**Published:** [Journal/Conference, Date]
**Link:** [URL]
**Quality:** Peer-reviewed / Preprint / Workshop paper

## TL;DR

[1-2 sentence summary of the key contribution]

## Problem

[What problem does this paper address? Why does it matter?]

## Approach

[Methodology in plain language — what did they do?]

## Key Findings

Anchor each finding to the paper so readers can verify. Use **§** for sections, **Fig.** / **Table** when the evidence is visual or tabular.

1. **[Finding 1]:** [Description with key metrics/numbers] — *Evidence:* §[N] [section name]; [Fig. X / Table Y if applicable]
2. **[Finding 2]:** [Description] — *Evidence:* §[N] …
3. **[Finding 3]:** [Description] — *Evidence:* §[N] …

## Claim–evidence map

| # | Claim (one line) | Where in paper | Type |
|---|------------------|----------------|------|
| 1 | [Claim] | §3.2 Results, Table 2 | Empirical |
| 2 | [Claim] | §1 Introduction | Stated goal |
| 3 | [Claim] | Fig. 4 | Qualitative |

Use this table for citation-audit alignment against the project's own research notes. If the PDF has no section numbers, use **page** or **heading text** instead of §.

## Practical Implications

[What does this mean for practitioners? How can we use these findings?]
- For the current stack: [Specific applicability to Rust/TS/Python work]
- For current projects: [How this might inform current work]

## Limitations

- [Limitation 1: e.g., small sample size, specific domain]
- [Limitation 2: e.g., not replicated, theoretical only]

## Related Work

- [Paper 1] — [How it relates]
- [Paper 2] — [How it relates]

## Verdict

**Reliability:** High / Medium / Low
**Relevance to us:** High / Medium / Low
**Action:** Apply directly / Consider for future / Interesting but not actionable

Process

Step 1 — Access the Paper

  • Check arXiv, PubMed, Google Scholar for open-access versions
  • If behind a paywall, note this and work with the abstract and any available supplementary material
  • Check for author's personal page (often has preprints)

Read the full file on GitHub · 111 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. 1mo ago First seen · 111 lines · 46 tokens per session scan A be91c68b3b58

Subscribe to this mod's changes

paper-summarizer is a skill published in the GitHub repository waybarrios/opencode-power-pack (544 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 46 tokens to every session and 934 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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