reviewing-ai-papers SKILL.md skillA

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reviewing-ai-papers from oaustegard/claude-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add oaustegard/claude-skills/reviewing-ai-papers@v0.4.0

Pins v0.4.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
oaustegard/claude-skills
Path
plugins/ai-and-reasoning/skills/reviewing-ai-papers/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
3
Latest version
v0.4.0, committed Sep 8, 2026
First version recorded
Jul 7, 2026
Size
7,878 bytes
Repository stars
158
License
MIT

Analyzes an AI/ML publication — paper, preprint, article, technical blog post — and extracts what an enterprise AI engineer should do about it. Use when someone supplies a URL or document on RAG, embeddings, fine-tuning, prompt engineering, agents, or LLM deployment and asks "review this paper", "what do you make of this", "is this worth adopting", or "summarise the method and its limits". The subject matter must itself be machine learning.

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

# Reviewing AI Papers

When users request analysis of AI/ML technical content (papers, articles, blog posts), extract actionable insights filtered through an enterprise AI engineering lens and store valuable discoveries to memory for cross-session recall.

## When NOT to use this skill

The subject matter has to be machine learning. Adjacent asks that are not:

| Situation | Use |
|---|---|
| "Does this text read as AI-written?" | declauding |
| Register or voice pass on a draft | declauding |
| Review a pull request or a diff | code-review |
| A paper outside ML | read it directly; this skill's lens will not fit |

"AI" appearing in the request is not the trigger — AI being the *topic of the
document* is.

## Contextual Priorities

**Technical Architecture:**
- RAG systems (semantic/lexical search, hybrid retrieval)
- Vector database optimization and embedding strategies
- Model fine-tuning for specialized scientific domains
- Knowledge distillation for secure on-premise deployment

**Implementation & Operations:**
- Prompt engineering and in-context learning techniques
- Security and IP protection in AI systems
- Scientific accuracy and hallucination mitigation
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add oaustegard/claude-skills/reviewing-ai-papers@sha256:0127ca2c5a4effb0

The line at the top of this page pins the label v0.4.0, 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 3 versions of this file, between Jul 7, 2026 and Sep 8, 2026, about one every 31 days.

versioncommittedcommitsizeaudit
v0.4.0 latest2026-09-08 51c9333 7,878 BA view · diff
v0.3.02026-08-25 04bfd5b 5,113 BA view · diff
v0.1.02026-07-07 6154d36 4,534 BA view

Audit of the latest version

A  17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.
  • pass: Frontmatter block present
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (7878 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

GitHub

oaustegard/claude-skills · 158 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-07 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_rfoovi6ns3ravo5w
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=oaustegard/claude-skills/reviewing-ai-papers
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/0127ca2c5a4effb0de5aea89ffc5321929e8a2d696e8c084b9a4c27129b35478

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