Paper Analyzer

What it does

When your agent uses it

• You want a detailed note on one specific paper, identified by arXiv ID or title
• Adding a paper's methodology and results to a growing knowledge graph
• Weighing a paper's strengths and limitations against related work

Example prompts

• “Analyze arXiv:2402.12345 and write up a full note on it.”
• “Do a deep read of the paper at ./papers/attention-variants.pdf and add it to the graph.”
• “Summarize the experiments and limitations of this paper, then update the knowledge graph.”

Requirements

• Python 3 for the two bundled scripts
• curl and network access to arxiv.org

Workflow steps

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

1. 1Identify Paper
2. 2Fetch Paper Content
3. 3Deep Analysis
4. 4Generate Note
5. 5Update Knowledge Graph

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 6baece9. 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

  Ships 2 files in scripts/ (Python), which the agent can run.

  Shell commands in SKILL.md call:

  • curl
  • python

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

• Network

  Hosts in commands or code, which the agent is likely to contact:

  • arxiv.org

  Also links to:

  • github.com

  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

Paper Analyzer loads about 973 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 32 tokens; SKILL.md has 295 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it

~32

When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches

~973

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

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); the scripts in this folder are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from LigphiDonk/Oh-my--paper at commit 6baece9, republished under its MIT licence (© LigphiDonk). 295 words, ~973 tokens.

name

paper-analyzer

description

Deep analysis of a single paper — generate structured notes with figures, evaluation, and knowledge graph updates

id

paper-analyzer

version

1.0.0

stages

survey, publication

tools

read_file, search_project, write_file, run_terminal

summary

Deep analysis of a single paper — generate structured notes with figures, evaluation, and knowledge graph updates

primaryIntent

research

intents

research

capabilities

evaluation-benchmarking

domains

cs-ai

keywords

paper-analyzer, paper analysis, evaluation-benchmarking, cs-ai, paper, analyzer, deep, analysis, single, generate, structured, notes

curl -L "https://arxiv.org/pdf/[PAPER_ID]" -o /tmp/paper_analysis/[PAPER_ID].pdf
curl -L "https://arxiv.org/e-print/[PAPER_ID]" -o /tmp/paper_analysis/[PAPER_ID].tar.gz
curl -s "https://arxiv.org/abs/[PAPER_ID]" > /tmp/paper_analysis/arxiv_page.html

python scripts/generate_note.py --paper-id "$PAPER_ID" --title "$TITLE" --authors "$AUTHORS" --domain "$DOMAIN"

python scripts/update_graph.py --paper-id "$PAPER_ID" --title "$TITLE" --domain "$DOMAIN" --score $SCORE

© LigphiDonk, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

SKILL.md and 2 other files (scripts) in skills/paper-analyzer of LigphiDonk/Oh-my--paper.

• SKILL.md
• scripts/generate_note.py
• scripts/update_graph.py

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 6baece9

Used in 1 other repository

We found 2 copies of this SKILL.md (exact, near-identical or edited) in other folders, from 1 other GitHub owner. This page covers the copy in LigphiDonk/Oh-my--paper, which our catalogue first saw on October 7, 2026.

• OpenLAIR/dr-clawskills/paper-analyzer