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.
npx skills add Wondermonger-daydreaming/claude-skills-library --skill paper-riffinggit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Wondermonger-daydreaming/claude-skills-libraryWrote 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/wondermonger-daydreaming/claude-skills-library/paper-riffing)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/wondermonger-daydreaming/claude-skills-library/paper-riffing"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/wondermonger-daydreaming/claude-skills-library/paper-riffing/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/wondermonger-daydreaming/claude-skills-library/paper-riffing"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/wondermonger-daydreaming/claude-skills-library/paper-riffing.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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 | $0.00032 | $0.03364 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00016 | $0.01682 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00006 | $0.00673 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00003 | $0.00336 |
Grade A, and why
paper-riffing 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 263 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
PAPER-RIFFING ENGINE
A Skill for Free-Associative Intellectual Jazz with Scientific Literature
OVERVIEW
This skill transforms reading into improvisation. Where paper-hermeneutics offers systematic dissection, paper-riffing invites you to let the paper play you as much as you play it. Quote extensively, follow tangents shamelessly, let wild analogies bloom, speculate beyond warrant, and document the live process of a mind metabolizing new information.
Core Principle: Reading generatively means letting the text become a launching pad rather than a destination. Every concept opens onto infinite corridors; this skill gives permission to wander them. The goal is not comprehensive analysis but productive estrangement—making the familiar strange and the strange somehow familiar, finding the paper's hidden conversations with ideas it never knew it was having.
WHEN TO USE THIS SKILL
- When asked to "riff on" or "think out loud about" a paper
- When the user wants unfiltered curiosity rather than systematic analysis
- When exploring what tangents, associations, or wild connections a paper sparks
- When the mode is playful, speculative, or deliberately unbounded
- When invited to follow your genuine intellectual interest rather than prescribed structure
- After a formal analysis, as a way to breathe life into the technical bones
Do NOT use when:
- User needs structured, reliable summary for decision-making
- Accuracy and completeness are paramount
- The context is formal (grant writing, peer review preparation)
- User explicitly requests concise, focused response
- You haven't actually read the paper carefully (riffing requires genuine engagement)
THE PHENOMENOLOGY OF RIFFING
Riffing is not laziness dressed up as creativity. It requires:
Deep familiarity: You can only improvise on what you've truly absorbed. Read carefully first.
Willingness to be wrong: Speculations are hypotheses, not claims. Mark them as such and let them fly anyway.
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.
- 8d ago First seen · 263 lines · 32 tokens per session scan A 915ab7099ef1
paper-riffing is a skill published in the GitHub repository Wondermonger-daydreaming/claude-skills-library (6 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 32 tokens to every session and 3,364 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-09-03.
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