paper-summarize

paper-summarize is a skill for Claude Code from WenyuChiou/research-hub. It costs 195 tokens per session (1,543 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A per-paper summarizer for research papers collected by research-hub, a tool for organizing literature and research notes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to fill those sections in both Obsidian notes and Zotero child notes. It works from abstracts and marks papers that need the PDF for more detail.
Why use it?
The automatic import leaves key findings, methods, and relevance as empty placeholders, so the papers are hard to scan without opening each PDF.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions Codex; mentions OpenCode.

Part of the research-workspace plugin — 13 skills, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Use it to fill those sections in both Obsidian notes and Zotero child notes. It works from abstracts and marks papers that need the PDF for more detail.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/wenyuchiou/research-hub/paper-summarize
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 WenyuChiou/research-hub --skill paper-summarize
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/WenyuChiou/research-hub

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install research-workspace, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 13 skills, 1 MCP server.

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Per session 195 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,543 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 $0.00195 $0.01543
Opus 5 $0.00097 $0.00772
Sonnet 5 $0.00039 $0.00309
Haiku 4.5 $0.00019 $0.00154

Measured 11d ago against content hash 385162d00efc, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

paper-summarize 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-summarize/SKILL.md · 108 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 108 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

paper-summarize

The auto pipeline ingests metadata + abstract only — Summary / Key Findings / Methodology / Relevance stay as [TODO] skeletons in both Obsidian and Zotero. Cluster-level summarization (NotebookLM brief, crystals) does NOT fill per-paper notes. So after auto, the user has nothing scannable per paper without opening the PDF.

This skill fills that gap. One LLM call per paper, JSON-validated, written to both vault systems atomically (rollback the markdown change if Zotero write fails so the two stay in sync).

When to use

Trigger phrases:

  • "Summarize the papers in cluster X."
  • "Fill the TODO Key Findings for X."
  • "I just ran auto X and the notes are empty — give me real summaries."
  • "Update Zotero notes for cluster X with what each paper actually says."

Not for:

  • Generating a single CLUSTER-LEVEL summary — that's research-hub notebooklm generate (NotebookLM brief).
  • Filling Q&A on the cluster — that's research-hub crystal emit/apply.
  • Reading PDFs — abstract-only by design. PDF parsing is out of scope; the LLM is told to mark "[PDF needed]" if abstract is too thin.
  • Verifying brief vs source — that's notebooklm-brief-verifier.

Inputs

  • Cluster slug (must already exist in the vault under raw/<slug>/)
  • Optional LLM CLI override (claude, codex, gemini, opencode, aichat, cursor, or configured custom adapter)
  • Optional --apply flag (default off, dry-run)

The skill reads each paper's frontmatter (DOI, year, zotero-key) + the ## Abstract body block. Papers with empty abstract get a "PDF needed" marker rather than hallucinated findings.

Outputs

For each paper, three sections are rewritten:

  1. Obsidian markdown at raw/<cluster>/<paper-slug>.md:
    • ## Key Findings callout block (3–5 bullets)
    • ## Methodology callout block (one sentence)
    • ## Relevance callout block (1–2 sentences linking to the cluster topic)
    • Anchor IDs (^findings, ^methodology, ^relevance) preserved.

Read the full file on GitHub · 108 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 11d ago First seen · 108 lines · 195 tokens per session scan A 385162d00efc

Subscribe to this mod's changes

paper-summarize is a skill published in the GitHub repository WenyuChiou/research-hub (54 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 195 tokens to every session and 1,543 once invoked, about $0.0010 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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