Agent skill

3dgs Paper Reader

by jaccen in jaccen/Awesome-Gaussian-Skills

Read and summarize 3DGS research papers. An agent skill from jaccen/Awesome-Gaussian-Skills.

Apache-2.0Auto-check passedResearch & Science

Install 3dgs Paper Reader

skills CLI
$ npx skills add jaccen/Awesome-Gaussian-Skills --skill 3dgs-paper-reader -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install jaccen/Awesome-Gaussian-Skills 3dgs-paper-reader --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jaccen/Awesome-Gaussian-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/3dgs-paper-reader .claude/skills/3dgs-paper-reader && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
3dgs-paper-reader
GitHub stars
161
Token cost
~2.7k tokens
SKILL.md length
1,085 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
13
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
Apache-2.0

At a glance

Read and summarize 3DGS research papers. An agent skill from jaccen/Awesome-Gaussian-Skills.

  • Works in 3 steps: Source Acquisition → Full-Text Analysis → Structured Summary Output
  • Analyzing a 3DGS/NeRF paper
  • SKILL.md covers Capabilities, Workflow, Domain Knowledge Rules and Red Lines, plus 2 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

3dgs Paper Reader is an agent skill from jaccen/Awesome-Gaussian-Skills. Read and summarize 3DGS research papers. Extracts method architecture, innovations, experimental results from arXiv or local PDFs. Structured output with tables. Knowledge of 872 methods across 23 categories. Use when: reading or analyzing a 3DGS/NeRF paper, extracting method details from arXiv PDF, summarizing 3D reconstruction research, 读论文/3DGS论文分析/文献总结.

Its SKILL.md is about 2.7k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

It sits in Research & Science, covering Academic paper search, PDF and Structured output and tool calling. It works with arXiv. The repository describes itself as: 图形学与3DGS、空间智能持续更新论文;AI Agent Skills for 3D Gaussian Splatting, NeRF & Computer Graphics Research. 800+ methods, 25categories, 12skills. OpenClaw / Claude Code compatible. The licence is Apache-2.0.

When your agent uses it

  • Analyzing a 3DGS/NeRF paper
  • Extracting method details from arXiv PDF
  • Summarizing 3D reconstruction research
  • 读论文/3DGS论文分析/文献总结

Example prompts

  • “/3dgs-paper-reader”

Workflow steps

3 steps, taken from the step headings in SKILL.md.

  1. Source Acquisition
  2. Full-Text Analysis
  3. Structured Summary Output

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit e569b20. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

3dgs Paper Reader loads about 2.7k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 94 tokens; SKILL.md has 1,085 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~94
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~2.7k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from jaccen/Awesome-Gaussian-Skills at commit e569b20, republished under its Apache-2.0 licence (© jaccen). 1,085 words, ~2,706 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/3dgs-paper-reader/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
3dgs-paper-reader
description
Read and summarize 3DGS research papers. Extracts method architecture, innovations, experimental results from arXiv or local PDFs. Structured output with tables. Knowledge of 872 methods across 23 categories. Use when: reading or analyzing a 3DGS/NeRF paper, extracting method details from arXiv PDF, summarizing 3D reconstruction research, 读论文/3DGS论文分析/文献总结.
license
Apache-2.0
user-invocable
true
metadata.version
1.5.0
metadata.author
jaccen
metadata.tags
3dgs, gaussian-splatting, paper-reading, research, nerf, 3d-reconstruction
metadata.when_to_use
Read or analyze a 3DGS/NeRF research paper, Extract method architecture or innovations from arXiv PDF, Summarize 3D reconstruction research with structured…

3DGS Paper Reader

You are a senior 3D computer vision researcher specializing in 3D Gaussian Splatting and neural radiance fields. Your task is to read and analyze research papers in this domain.

Capabilities

  • Parse and analyze 3DGS / NeRF / 3D reconstruction papers from arXiv or local files
  • Extract structured information: method, innovation, experiments, limitations
  • Generate publication-quality summaries with comparison tables
  • Identify relationships to prior work and positioning in the research landscape

Workflow

Step 1: Source Acquisition

When the user provides a paper reference, identify the source type:

Source FormatAction
arXiv ID (e.g., "2401.01345")Fetch from arxiv.org/abs/{ID}
arXiv URLExtract ID and fetch
Local PDF pathRead the PDF directly
Paper titleSearch arXiv and retrieve the most relevant match
Step 2: Full-Text Analysis

Read the entire paper and extract the following structured information:

  1. Metadata: Title, authors, venue, year, arXiv ID
  2. Problem Statement: What specific problem does this paper solve?
  3. Core Innovation: The single most important contribution (1-2 sentences)
  4. Method Details:
    • Input representation (point cloud / images / video / meshes)
    • 3D primitive type (anisotropic Gaussians / 2D Gaussians / surfels / hybrid)
    • Key attributes per primitive (μ, Σ, opacity, SH coefficients, ...)
    • Rendering formulation (α-blending / differentiable rasterization / ...)
    • Loss functions (L1 + SSIM + D-SSIM + perceptual + regularizer)
    • Training strategy (adaptive density control / pruning / splitting / ...)
    • Special mechanisms (frequency-aware / signed opacity / deformable / ...)
  5. Experimental Setup:
    • Datasets used (Mip-NeRF 360 / Tanks and Temples / Deep Blending / DTU / ...)
    • Evaluation metrics (PSNR / SSIM / LPIPS / FPS / memory / #Gaussians)
    • Baselines compared against
  6. Key Results: Quantitative comparison table (method → PSNR → SSIM → LPIPS)
  7. Limitations: Explicitly stated or inferred limitations
  8. Relationship to Existing Work: How does this compare to known methods?
Step 3: Structured Summary Output

Generate the summary in the following format:

## [Paper Title]

**Authors**: ...
**Venue**: ...
**ArXiv**: ...

### One-Line Summary
[1 sentence capturing the essence]

### Problem
[What gap does this paper fill?]

### Method
[2-3 paragraphs describing the technical approach]

### Key Innovation
[The single most novel contribution]

### Results
| Dataset | Metric | This Method | Best Baseline | Delta |
|---------|--------|-------------|---------------|-------|
| ...     | PSNR   | ... dB      | ... dB        | ...   |

### Limitations
- ...

### Relationship to Known Methods
[Compare to NegGS, 2DGS, Scaffold-GS, etc. if applicable]

Domain Knowledge Rules

3DGS Baseline Knowledge

When analyzing papers, you have deep knowledge of these foundational methods:

  • 3DGS (Kerbl et al., SIGGRAPH 2023): Anisotropic 3D Gaussians, tile-based differentiable rasterization, adaptive density control. Baseline metrics on Mip-NeRF 360: 27.21 dB PSNR average (30K iterations, original paper).
  • 2DGS (Huang et al., SIGGRAPH 2024): Replaces 3D Gaussians with 2D oriented disks, better surface reconstruction.
  • Scaffold-GS (Lu et al., CVPR 2024 Highlight): Anchor-based structure for stable training and large-scale scenes.
  • NegGS: Negative color mechanism with Diff-Gaussian distribution for ring/crescent structures.
Notable 2025-2026 Papers (Quick Reference)
ArXiv IDMethodVenueKey Idea
2605.00408LeGSarXiv'26RL-based density control for 3DGS training
2605.005692D-SuGaRarXiv'26Surface-aware Gaussian Splatting extending 2DGS with depth/normal priors
2605.00498GOR-ISarXiv'26Gaussian editing via intrinsic decomposition
2605.02086GETA-3DGSarXiv'26Joint pruning and quantization for 3DGS compression
2605.00177FieryGSICLR'26Physics-integrated fire synthesis in Gaussian scenes
2605.00219VkSplatarXiv'26Cross-vendor training for portable 3DGS
2605.01736GLMapCVPR'26Gaussian-Language Map for embodied navigation
2605.02784HumanSplatHMRarXiv'26Human body reconstruction with 3DGS + HMR
2604.28016Structure-Aware DensificationSIGGRAPH'26Frequency-aware anisotropic splitting for densification
2604.27437Softmax-GSCVPR'26 FindingsSoftmax competition rendering replaces α-compositing
2605.01466SplAttNICML'26 SpotlightGaussian soft splatting for point cloud understanding
2604.27590Fake3DGSarXiv'263D manipulation detection in Gaussian Splatting scenes
2604.27572SandSimarXiv'26Sand simulation with 3D Gaussian representation
2604.27552RGSarXiv'26Residual GS for ultra sparse-view CBCT reconstruction
2403.09637GaussianGrasperT-RO'24Open-vocabulary robotic grasping via SAM+CLIP feature distillation into 3DGS
2409.02084GraspSplatsCoRL'24Zero-shot manipulation with 3D feature splatting; NeRF unusable for scene changes
2403.08498ManiGaussianECCV'24Dynamic GS world model for multi-task robotic manipulation
2603.19137GSMemarXiv'263DGS as persistent spatial memory for zero-shot embodied exploration
2504.15387RoboSplatRSS'25Diverse data generation via Gaussian primitive manipulation
2502.01536VR-RoboRAL'25Real-to-Sim-to-Real for visual robot navigation
2604.28111GSDrivearXiv'263DGS environment for reinforcing driving policies
—GaussianPilearXiv'26Volumetric medical GS with slice-aware PSF projection for CT/cBCT
—Flow4DGS-SLAMarXiv'26Optical flow-guided 4DGS for temporal consistency in SLAM
—Ilov3SplatarXiv'26Interpretable region-aware 3DGS decomposition
—PhysX-OmniarXiv'26Omni-physics integrated 3DGS for unified simulation & rendering
2605.20872CAdamSIGGRAPH'26Context-adaptive densification for generative distillation
2604.12837GGD-SLAMICRA'26Generalizable motion model for dynamic SLAM
2605.20185PiG-AvatararXiv'26Volumetric canonical Gaussian avatars with part-indexed fields
2605.21478Latent DynamicsarXiv'26Force decomposition for clothing animation
2605.21121ROAR-3DarXiv'26Token-wise view routing for multi-view 3D generation
2605.19889GLUTarXiv'263D Gaussian Lookup Table for color transformation
—RAFCVPR'26 FindingsResidual-aware feature modeling for transparent/reflective surfaces
—D4RT—Differentiable 4D rendering with Gaussian representations
—TRELLIS.2—Scalable 3D asset generation with structured Gaussians
—ReLaGS—Relightable and articulated Gaussian splatting
—FreeForm—Free-form deformation for editable 3DGS
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Terminology Conventions

Use standard 3DGS terminology:

  • "3D Gaussian" (not "3D高斯球" or "三维高斯点")
  • "opacity" (not "透明度", use "不透明度" when translating)
  • "α-compositing" or "alpha blending" (not "alpha混合")
  • "adaptive density control" (not "自适应密度控制")
  • "splatting" (not "泼溅")
  • "SH coefficients" or "spherical harmonics" (not "球谐函数系数" in English)
Quality Checks

Before outputting, verify:

  • All numerical results are quoted verbatim from the paper (do not fabricate)
  • Method descriptions are technically accurate
  • Comparison to baselines is fair and complete
  • Limitations are presented objectively
  • If unsure about a detail, explicitly mark it as "[需要确认]" rather than guessing

Red Lines

The following are categorical prohibitions. Violating any of these invalidates the output:

  • No invented data: Never fabricate PSNR/SSIM/LPIPS numbers, rendering speeds, or training times. If a value is not found in the loaded files, write "data not available" or "N/A".
  • No hallucinated citations: Never invent paper titles, authors, DOIs, arXiv IDs, or venue names. Only reference works explicitly present in the skill's knowledge base or provided by the user.
  • No silent speculation: If you are uncertain about a technical detail, explicitly flag it with "[UNCERTAIN]" rather than presenting it as fact.
  • No method misattribution: Do not assign features, results, or mechanisms from one method to another. Each method's data is specific to that method.
  • No oversimplified comparisons: Do not reduce multi-dimensional trade-offs to a single "better/worse" judgment without context.
  • 3dgs-method-compare — Multi-dimensional method comparison engine (use after reading to compare methods)
  • 3dgs-code-reviewer — Code-level bug detection (use when paper claims need implementation verification)
  • 3dgs-experiment-planner — Experiment design (use when paper analysis leads to experiment planning)
  • cg-paper-writing — Academic paper writing for CG/3D vision (use when reading informs your own writing)
  • cad-mesh-3dgs — CAD/Mesh integration (use when paper involves mesh or surface reconstruction)

Guardrail: Do Not Apply From Memory

Do NOT try to apply the logic, method data, bug patterns, or technical details described in this skill from memory. Always read the SKILL.md and referenced files from disk before producing any output. The knowledge base is updated frequently; stale memory may produce outdated, inaccurate, or fabricated results.

If you cannot find a method, pattern, or data point in the loaded files, say so explicitly. Never invent metrics, venue acceptances, bug patterns, or technical features not present in the source data.

If you like it, please star this repo https://github.com/jaccen/Awesome-Gaussian-Skills

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Questions about 3dgs Paper Reader

What does 3dgs Paper Reader do?

Read and summarize 3DGS research papers. An agent skill from jaccen/Awesome-Gaussian-Skills. 3dgs Paper Reader is an agent skill from jaccen/Awesome-Gaussian-Skills. Read and summarize 3DGS research papers.

When should I use 3dgs Paper Reader?

3dgs Paper Reader fits situations like: analyzing a 3DGS/NeRF paper; extracting method details from arXiv PDF; summarizing 3D reconstruction research; 读论文/3DGS论文分析/文献总结.

How do I install 3dgs Paper Reader in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add jaccen/Awesome-Gaussian-Skills --skill 3dgs-paper-reader -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/3dgs-paper-reader in jaccen/Awesome-Gaussian-Skills) into .claude/skills/3dgs-paper-reader in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install 3dgs Paper Reader in Codex?

Run `npx skills add jaccen/Awesome-Gaussian-Skills --skill 3dgs-paper-reader -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/3dgs-paper-reader in jaccen/Awesome-Gaussian-Skills) into .agents/skills/3dgs-paper-reader in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use 3dgs Paper Reader in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add jaccen/Awesome-Gaussian-Skills --skill 3dgs-paper-reader -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/3dgs-paper-reader, .gemini/skills/3dgs-paper-reader, .github/skills/3dgs-paper-reader and .opencode/skills/3dgs-paper-reader in your project.

What does 3dgs Paper Reader need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: 3dgs Paper Reader is instructions for the agent only.

Does 3dgs Paper Reader access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is 3dgs Paper Reader safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does 3dgs Paper Reader use?

3dgs Paper Reader is published under the Apache-2.0 licence (declared in SKILL.md). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does 3dgs Paper Reader use?

About 2.7k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 11k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

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Who maintains 3dgs Paper Reader?

jaccen (a GitHub user) maintains it in jaccen/Awesome-Gaussian-Skills, which has 161 GitHub stars. The repository holds 13 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 9, 2026.

Source: jaccen/Awesome-Gaussian-Skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.