paper-researcher

paper-researcher is a skill for Claude Code from wpsnote/wpsnote-skills. It costs 137 tokens per session (1,808 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A research assistant for finding academic papers, downloading their PDFs, saving them to WPS notes, a digital notebook, and analysing them. It searches arXiv and OpenAlex, which are academic research databases.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to find papers, download and read them, save them to WPS notes, and conduct literature research.
Why use it?
It brings paper search, downloading, note-taking, and analysis into one workflow instead of requiring separate steps.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the content-skills plugin — 10 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to find papers, download and read them, save them to WPS notes, and conduct literature research.

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

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install content-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 10 skills.

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Per session 137 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,808 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 $0.00137 $0.01808
Opus 5.5 $0.00055 $0.00723
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00027 $0.00362
Haiku 4.5 $0.00014 $0.00181

Measured 1mo ago against content hash dc40b3b5b5f7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

paper-researcher 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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/paper.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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-researcher/SKILL.md · 178 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 178 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Paper Researcher — 论文全流程助手

前置检查

启动本 Skill 的第一步,检查 wpsnote-cli 是否可用:

wpsnote-cli status --json
  • 可用 → 后续 WPS 笔记操作全部使用 wpsnote-cli 命令
  • 不可用 → 降级使用 MCP 工具(user-wpsnote 服务)操作 WPS 笔记

CLI 工具约定(wpsnote-cli 可用时)

wpsnote-cli <子命令> [参数]
# 复杂参数一律通过 --json-args 传入
wpsnote-cli <子命令> --json-args '{"key": "value"}'
操作 CLI 命令
搜索笔记 wpsnote-cli search-notes --query "关键词" --json
列出笔记 wpsnote-cli list --json
读取笔记全文 wpsnote-cli read --note_id <id> --json
新建笔记 wpsnote-cli create --json-args '{"title":"标题","content":"<h1>...</h1>"}'
插入 block wpsnote-cli edit --json-args '{"note_id":"...","op":"insert","anchor_id":"...","content":"<p>...</p>"}'
获取标签列表 wpsnote-cli tags --json

核心脚本

搜索与下载操作通过 scripts/paper.py 完成,路径:<skill目录>/scripts/paper.py。

# 首次使用安装依赖
pip install arxiv markitdown pymupdf

# 搜索(默认 arXiv,推荐英文关键词)
python3 /path/to/scripts/paper.py search "transformer attention" --top 5
python3 /path/to/scripts/paper.py search "LoRA fine-tuning" --source openalex --top 5
python3 /path/to/scripts/paper.py search "diffusion model" --category cs.CV

# 下载 PDF 并转 Markdown
python3 /path/to/scripts/paper.py get 1706.03762 --markdown
python3 /path/to/scripts/paper.py get 1706.03762 --output ~/papers --markdown

脚本实际路径:读取本 SKILL.md 的目录下的 scripts/paper.py,执行前先用 ls 确认路径存在。

PDF → Markdown 转换说明

加 --markdown 参数后,脚本按以下顺序尝试转换,成功即停止:

  1. markitdown(首选):调用 MarkItDown().convert(pdf_path),转换质量最高,保留结构
  2. pymupdf(备选):逐页提取文字,拼接为 ## Page N 格式的 Markdown
  3. 两种方法均失败 → 打印警告,返回空字符串(通常是扫描版 PDF)

转换结果保存为同名 .md 文件,路径与 PDF 相同,如 ~/papers/1706.03762.md。

转换完成后,用 Shell cat 命令读取 .md 文件内容,再进行分析。


工作流程

场景 A:搜索 + 精读(最常见)

1. 运行 paper.py search  →  展示结果,请用户选择
2. 用户确认后,运行 paper.py get <ID> --markdown
3. Shell 读取生成的 .md 文件:cat ~/papers/<ID>.md
4. 按分析框架输出结构化摘要
5. 存入 WPS 笔记(CLI 优先,见存档流程)

场景 B:用户直接提供 PDF 路径

1. 用 Read 工具读取 PDF(Cursor 内置支持)
2. 若内容为空 → 运行 paper.py get <id> --markdown 转换后再读
3. 分析并存档

Read the full file on GitHub · 178 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. 1mo ago First seen · 178 lines · 137 tokens per session scan A dc40b3b5b5f7

Subscribe to this mod's changes

paper-researcher is a skill published in the GitHub repository wpsnote/wpsnote-skills (183 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 137 tokens to every session and 1,808 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.

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