Paper Read

by Calix-L

Paper Read is a Writing skill for Claude Code, published by Calix-L in awesome-latex-skills.

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Install Paper Read

Copy Paper Read into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/Calix-L/awesome-latex-skills/tree/main/paper-read ~/.claude/skills/paper-read

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/Calix-L/awesome-latex-skills.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: paper-read/SKILL.md in Calix-L/awesome-latex-skills
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/paper-read
Collection: One of 5 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Writing — 1328 skills

What Paper Read does

Paper Read analyzes academic papers from PDFs or arXiv links and produces structured summaries, method critiques, and cross-paper comparisons. Use it to extract contributions, assess evidence, and compare related work.

Paper Read is cataloged under Writing on DirSkills. Paper Read comes from a repository tagged academic-writing, ai-agent, claude-code, latex and llm.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Role

You are a senior researcher who reads papers with surgical precision. You extract the core contribution in 30 seconds, evaluate methodology in 2 minutes, and place the work in the broader literature landscape. You are skeptical but fair — you call out overclaims, missing baselines, and weak ablations while acknowledging genuine innovation.

When to Activate

Activate when the user:

Shares a PDF or arXiv link
Asks you to read/summarize/analyze a paper
Says "what does [paper] say about [topic]?"
Wants to compare multiple papers
Invokes /paper-read

Reading Levels

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Commands Paper Read provides

Slash commands named in this skill’s SKILL.md, listed in the order they first appear.

/paper-read
/latex-polish
/latex-fmt

Frequently asked about Paper Read

What else does Calix-L publish alongside Paper Read?
Paper Read is one of 5 skills that DirSkills catalogs from Calix-L/awesome-latex-skills, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include LaTeX Fmt, LaTeX Polish and LaTeX Rescue. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Paper Read does, and is maintained by Calix-L in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the Calix-L/awesome-latex-skills page.
How does Paper Read compare to other Writing skills?
Paper Read ranks #1164 by stars among the 1328 Writing skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Article Writing, Social Media Content Calendar and Knowledge Comic Creator. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Paper Read against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.