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.
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/WenyuChiou/research-hubnpx agentmods add skills/wenyuchiou/research-hub/paper-memory-builderWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/wenyuchiou/research-hub/paper-memory-builder)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/wenyuchiou/research-hub/paper-memory-builder"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/wenyuchiou/research-hub/paper-memory-builder/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/wenyuchiou/research-hub/paper-memory-builder"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/wenyuchiou/research-hub/paper-memory-builder.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- NVIDIA SkillSpector warn
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to high
These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →
- high Memory Poisoning · line 104 Skill manipulates agent memory, state, or stored context. Memory corruption can alter personality, override safety rules, or cause unpredictable behavior.Fix: Protect agent memory and state from modification by untrusted content. Use read-only memory for critical instructions and validate all state changes.
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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00122 | $0.02134 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00049 | $0.00854 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00024 | $0.00427 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00012 | $0.00213 |
Grade A, and why
paper-memory-builder 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 15d 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 187 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
paper-memory-builder
Bridge between research-hub and academic-writing-skills. Reads a
manuscript draft (Word, LaTeX, Markdown, Obsidian paper folder) plus the
figures it references, and writes structured .paper/claims.yml +
.paper/figures.yml so the writing skill can reason about the paper
without parsing the manuscript on every call.
This skill does not edit the manuscript itself. That's the writing skill's job. We just produce the memory layer it consumes.
When to use
Trigger phrases:
- "Build paper memory for this manuscript."
- "Extract claims, figures, and evidence from this paper folder."
- "Prepare reusable memory for writing and revision."
- "I'm starting a rebuttal — give me the claims layer first."
Not for:
- Writing the rebuttal itself —
academic-writing-skills. - Building the orientation memo —
research-project-orienter. - Comparing papers —
literature-triage-matrix. - Verifying a NotebookLM brief —
notebooklm-brief-verifier.
Inputs
In priority order:
.paper/existing files — ifclaims.ymlalready exists, parse it; this run should refresh, not replace human edits.- The manuscript file — usually one of:
paper/manuscript.docx/manuscript.tex/manuscript.md- Obsidian paper note under
raw/<paper-cluster>/manuscript.md - Word/LaTeX in a sibling repo specified by the user
- Figure files under
figures/oroutputs/figures/— read filenames + captions; don't OCR images. .research/project_manifest.yml— for project context (research question, datasets, current_stage). Use to anchor claims in the project's overall question..research/literature_matrix.md— for citation key lookup if the manuscript references "Smith 2024" but you need to disambiguate.
Scanning the paper repo for evidence artifacts (v0.3.16+)
Beyond the manuscript + figures, real research repos typically contain
sibling artifacts that populate claims[].evidence_artifacts for
non-figure evidence. When scanning, look for:
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.
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.
- 15d ago Changed · +10 lines 9c38d3282de8
- 2mo ago First seen · 177 lines · 122 tokens per session scan A 62fb06a3c19c
paper-memory-builder is a skill published in the GitHub repository WenyuChiou/research-hub (67 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 122 tokens to every session and 2,134 once invoked, about $0.0005 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.
paper-memory-builder compared with skills from other repositories
| Mod | Type | Stars | Last push | Licence | Scan | Tokens | Works with |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| paper-memory-builderWenyuChiou/research-hub | Skill | 67 | yesterday | MIT | A | 122 | Claude Code |
| journal-abbrevAgents365-ai/365-skills | Skill | 100 | 4d ago | none | A | 121 | Claude Code |
| journal-metaAgents365-ai/365-skills | Skill | 100 | 4d ago | none | A | 167 | Claude Code |
| kami-decknexu-io/open-design | Skill | 106k | yesterday | Apache-2.0 | A | 49 | Claude Code, Codex |
| imaging-data-commonssynthetic-sciences/openscience | Skill | 4.3k | 2d ago | Apache-2.0 | A | 62 | Claude Code, Codex |
| flow-cytometry-analysissynthetic-sciences/openscience | Skill | 4.3k | 2d ago | Apache-2.0 | A | 67 | Claude Code, Codex |
| molecular-cloningsynthetic-sciences/openscience | Skill | 4.3k | 2d ago | Apache-2.0 | A | 70 | Claude Code, Codex |