reading-papers SKILL.md skillA
reading-papers from ericluo04/claude-academic-workflow is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add ericluo04/claude-academic-workflow/reading-papers@git:20261008.31316aaPins git:20261008.31316aa in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- ericluo04/claude-academic-workflow
- Path
skills/reading-papers/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 9
- Latest version
- git:20261008.31316aa, committed Oct 8, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jul 27, 2026
- Size
- 20,724 bytes
- Repository stars
- 25
- License
- a license file GitHub does not identify
Read one known paper the user points at: a link, DOI, title, author name, or vague reference. TRIGGER when the user pastes a paper URL, names a paper to read or summarize, asks "what does X argue", or asks what an author has written. A topic-level search is litreview; auditing a .bib is bibcheck.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# Reading papers Get from a fuzzy reference to clean full text with equations intact, cheaply, without wasting context on dead ends. The intelligence is yours; the script is a tool. Don't blindly trust its first answer on hard cases (common author names, paywalled venues). Verify, as flagged below. ## The command ```bash ~/.claude/skills/reading-papers/scripts/paper.py <cmd> "<query>" [flags] ``` | cmd | does | |---|---| | `resolve` | fuzzy ref → canonical record (DOI, arXiv id, venue, year, OA status, best free URL, free AEA appendices) | | `get` | resolve, then fetch the cleanest full text available | | `search` | topic/keyword search across Semantic Scholar + OpenAlex + arXiv, deduped and merged | | `author` | works by a person, newest first, with disambiguation | | `cites` | citation graph: cited-by and references; `--contexts` adds the citing sentences | Flags: `--venue "…"` · `--since/--until YEAR` · `-n N` · `--json` · `--save` · `--raw` · `--list-sections` · `--section "<substr>"` · `--affiliation "…"` · `--orcid "…"` · `--contexts` Keys (all free) live in `~/.claude/secrets/scholar.env`; the script auto-loads them. `paper.py` …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add ericluo04/claude-academic-workflow/reading-papers@sha256:08a5b9f95ad40d8aThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261008.31316aa, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 9 versions of this file, between Jul 27, 2026 and Oct 8, 2026, about one every 9 days.
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| git:20261008.31316aa latest | 2026-10-08 | 31316aa | 20,724 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261007.62bb1e7 | 2026-10-07 | 62bb1e7 | 19,817 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261002.c8ea505 | 2026-10-02 | c8ea505 | 16,986 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261001.5a7ce93 | 2026-10-01 | 5a7ce93 | 16,800 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260914.b89bc04 | 2026-09-14 | b89bc04 | 16,781 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260906.7c0125b | 2026-09-06 | 7c0125b | 16,951 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260902.5fdf457 | 2026-09-02 | 5fdf457 | 16,938 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260828.039723a | 2026-08-28 | 039723a | 15,184 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260727.37a3f77 | 2026-07-27 | 37a3f77 | 14,243 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (20724 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
ericluo04/claude-academic-workflow · 25 stars · license a license file GitHub does not identify · pushed 2026-10-29 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_5modsnmi2uzdt26b GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=ericluo04/claude-academic-workflow/reading-papers GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/08a5b9f95ad40d8ad68602d3497470ab1330502bc738df93591fde24b5bb96e5
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