read-paper

read-paper is a skill for Claude Code from X1AOX1A/ZoFiles. It costs 153 tokens per session (1,454 once invoked), scanned B, original, MIT.

A guide for reading academic paper folders exported from Zotero through ZoFiles. The folders contain a paper’s full text, citation, PDF, AI review, and notes, with arXiv IDs and titles used for finding papers.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to find papers by arXiv ID, browse topic collections, read paper files, and work with their citations, reviews, PDFs, and notes.
Why use it?
It explains how to locate and use the files consistently instead of searching through an unstructured paper collection. It also identifies when the library path must be set up first.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths.

Good fit Use it to find papers by arXiv ID, browse topic collections, read paper files, and work with their citations, reviews, PDFs, and notes.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/x1aox1a/zofiles/read-paper
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 X1AOX1A/ZoFiles --skill read-paper
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/X1AOX1A/ZoFiles

Made for: Claude Code.

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README.md
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Per session 153 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,454 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. 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 $0.00153 $0.01454
Opus 5 $0.00077 $0.00727
Sonnet 5 $0.00031 $0.00291
Haiku 4.5 $0.00015 $0.00145

Measured 9d ago against content hash dc4624ddaf3e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

read-paper scanned grade B with 1 finding 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 9d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/scan-library.sh), 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.

Subtle steeringmediumPrompt injection

Instructions that bias recommendations or shape behaviour without the user noticing.

**Not all files may be present.** If a file is missing (e.g. no `kimi.md` or `paper.md`), skip it gracefully and work with what's available. Never tell the user a file "should" exist — just use alternative sources. For e
.claude/skills/read-paper/SKILL.md · 119 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 119 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Reading Paper Folders

Paper folders are exported by ZoFiles from Zotero. Each folder is named {arxivId} - {title} and contains structured files about one academic paper.

Paper Library Location

The paper library is at:

<FILL_IN: ask the user for their ZoFiles export root path, then update this file>

First-use setup: If the path above says <FILL_IN...> or doesn't exist, ask the user: "What's the path to your ZoFiles paper library?" Then:

  1. Update the path above
  2. Run scan-library.sh to populate the directory snapshot (see Updating the Directory Snapshot)

Directory Structure

The library mirrors Zotero's collection hierarchy. Collections become directories, sub-collections become subdirectories, and paper folders sit at the leaves.

Key patterns:

  • Allin/ directories appear when a collection has subcollections — contains all papers from that collection and every descendant (flat view of the entire subtree).
  • Paper folders are named {arxivId} - {title} (e.g. 2512.18832 - From Word to World...).
  • Find by arXiv ID: glob **/2512.18832* from the library root.
  • Browse a topic: list the corresponding collection directory.
  • See all papers: glob **/paper.md or **/arxiv.id recursively.

Current Library Snapshot

<FILL_IN: run the scan script below to populate this snapshot>

Use this snapshot to quickly orient yourself when the user asks about topics, collections, or paper counts — no need to scan the filesystem each time.

Updating the Directory Snapshot

When the user asks to update the directory structure (e.g. "更新目录", "update directory", "refresh library"):

bash .claude/skills/read-paper/scripts/scan-library.sh "<library_root>"

Then replace the content between <!-- AUTO-GENERATED --> and <!-- END AUTO-GENERATED --> markers in this file with the new output (wrapped in a ```code block), and update the<!-- Last updated: ... --> date.

Read the full file on GitHub · 119 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 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.

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. 9d ago First seen · 119 lines · 153 tokens per session scan B dc4624ddaf3e

Subscribe to this mod's changes

read-paper is a skill published in the GitHub repository X1AOX1A/ZoFiles (31 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 153 tokens to every session and 1,454 once invoked, about $0.0008 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (subtle steering). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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