paper-analysis

paper-analysis is a skill for Claude Code from zfy465914233/scholar-agent. It costs 29 tokens per session (618 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for deeply examining one academic paper by downloading its PDF, extracting figures, and creating a structured analysis note. It can also fill marked sections using text from the paper.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to analyze a specific paper, collect its figures, and produce a detailed note with methods, findings, and other paper details.
Why use it?
It turns a paper into an organized research note instead of leaving you to read, copy, and structure everything manually.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to analyze a specific paper, collect its figures, and produce a detailed note with methods, findings, and other paper details.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/zfy465914233/scholar-agent/paper-analysis
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add zfy465914233/scholar-agent --skill paper-analysis
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/zfy465914233/scholar-agent

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 29 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 618 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 $0.00029 $0.00618
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00309
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00124
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00062

Measured 11d ago against content hash e53ddaf3eafe, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

paper-analysis 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-analysis/SKILL.md · 81 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 81 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Paper Analysis Skill

Generate a comprehensive analysis note for a single paper.

Step 1: Download the paper

download_paper(paper_id="2510.24701", title="Paper Title", domain="LLM")

This caches the PDF locally under paper-notes/<title>/.

Step 2: Extract figures

extract_paper_images(paper_id="2510.24701")

Auto-detects the local PDF. Images go to paper-notes/<title>/images/.

Step 3: Generate the analysis note

analyze_paper(paper_json='{"title": "...", "authors": [...], "arxiv_id": "..."}', language="zh")

Returns:

  • note_path: path to the generated markdown note
  • quality_check: whether the note has unfilled placeholders
  • pdf_text: full text extracted from the PDF (if available)
  • instructions: if placeholders exist, instructions to fill them

Step 4: Fill placeholders

The generated note contains <!-- LLM: describe method --> style placeholders. When instructions is non-null, you MUST fill all placeholders using the pdf_text field:

Filling rules

  1. Read the note at note_path.
  2. For each <!-- LLM: ... --> placeholder, replace it with substantive content drawn from pdf_text.
  3. Be specific: cite numbers, dataset names, architecture details, formula descriptions.
  4. Do NOT leave any placeholder unfilled.
  5. Write the complete filled note back using the Write tool.

Section guide

Section What to write
Core information One-sentence contribution, key result, paper type
Abstract translation Translate or paraphrase the abstract with domain context
Research background What problem existed, why it matters
Research questions List the explicit or implicit questions the paper addresses
Method overview Architecture, algorithm, pipeline — with specifics
Experimental results Datasets, metrics, comparisons, ablation findings
Deep analysis Strengths, weaknesses, assumptions, limitations
Comparison with related work Position vs. prior art
Technical roadmap Where this fits in the broader research trajectory
Future work Open questions the paper raises
Comprehensive evaluation Your own 1-5 rating with justification
My notes Leave empty for user to fill

Read the full file on GitHub · 81 lines

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 · 81 lines · 29 tokens per session scan A e53ddaf3eafe

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paper-analysis is a skill published in the GitHub repository zfy465914233/scholar-agent (9 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 29 tokens to every session and 618 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-08-31.

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