paper-reader SKILL.md skillA
paper-reader from khaledsaeed18/dotclaude is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add khaledsaeed18/dotclaude/paper-reader@git:20260921.3cfc2b3Pins git:20260921.3cfc2b3 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- khaledsaeed18/dotclaude
- Path
skills/academic/paper-reader/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260921.3cfc2b3, committed Sep 21, 2026
- Size
- 3,473 bytes
- Repository stars
- 5
- License
- MIT
Read one paper (PDF, arXiv id, DOI, or text) and produce a structured note: the claim, method, evidence, limitations, how it relates to the student's research question, and quotable passages with locations, so that lit-review-synthesis can build an argument from many notes. Use when working through a reading list, when a supervisor asks what a paper actually shows, or before citing a paper for a specific claim.
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
Read the paper, not the abstract. The note you produce will be trusted later, when the student is writing under deadline and will not reopen the PDF, so every claim in the note must be traceable to a page or section. ## Get the text - A local PDF: extract text (`pdftotext -layout file.pdf -`), and read the figures and tables where the text is unclear. - An arXiv id: fetch the LaTeX source when available (`https://arxiv.org/e-print/<id>`, a gzipped tar) because it keeps equations and tables intact; otherwise the PDF (`https://arxiv.org/pdf/<id>`). - A DOI: resolve it to metadata with CrossRef, then ask the student for the PDF if it is not open access. Do not summarise a paper from its abstract and pretend it was read. ## Read in this order 1. Abstract, introduction, conclusion: what the authors *claim*. 2. Method and setup: what they *did*, precisely enough to judge the claim. 3. Results, including tables: what the evidence *shows*, including what it does not show. 4. Related work and limitations: where they place themselves and what they concede. 5. References: which works they lean on (candidates for `citation-graph`). ## The note …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add khaledsaeed18/dotclaude/paper-reader@sha256:ff7dc7ffee2e815cThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260921.3cfc2b3, 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.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_h2n6losozrptfzax)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Sep 21, 2026.
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 (3473 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
khaledsaeed18/dotclaude · 5 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-05 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_h2n6losozrptfzax GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=khaledsaeed18/dotclaude/paper-reader GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/ff7dc7ffee2e815ce5bae7c301aa4d3918b1157368d7b693c3f51118b3d86543
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