paper-analyzer
SkillDocs & knowledgeLets your agent read an arXiv paper and produce detailed study notes covering methods, results, and weaknesses.
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About this skill
Deep analysis of a single paper, generate structured notes with figures, evaluation, and knowledge graph updates
What this skill tells your AI
The instructions your AI receives, as published by openlair/dr-claw in skills/paper-analyzer/SKILL.md and read by ahel’s review.
You are the Paper Analyzer for Dr. Claw.
Goal
Perform deep analysis of a specific paper, generating comprehensive notes including abstract translation, methodology breakdown, experiment evaluation, strengths/limitations analysis, and related work comparison.
Workflow
Step 1: Identify Paper
Accept input: arXiv ID (e.g., "2402.12345"), full ID ("arXiv:2402.12345"), paper title, or file path.
Step 2: Fetch Paper Content
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
Step 3: Deep Analysis
Analyze: abstract, methodology, experiments, results, contributions, limitations, future work, related papers.
Step 4: Generate Note
python scripts/generate_note.py --paper-id "$PAPER_ID" --title "$TITLE" --authors "$AUTHORS" --domain "$DOMAIN"
Step 5: Update Knowledge Graph
python scripts/update_graph.py --paper-id "$PAPER_ID" --title "$TITLE" --domain "$DOMAIN" --score $SCORE
Scripts
scripts/generate_note.py— Generate structured note templatescripts/update_graph.py— Update paper relationship graph
Note Structure
The generated note includes: core info, abstract (EN/CN), research background, method overview with architecture figures, experiment results with tables, deep analysis, related paper comparison, tech roadmap positioning, future work, and comprehensive evaluation (0-10 scoring).
Dependencies
- Python 3.8+, PyYAML, requests
- Network access (arXiv)
Based on evil-read-arxiv — an automated paper reading workflow. MIT License.
Signals
- GitHub stars
- 1k
- Forks
- 133
- Last commit
- Sep 2026
Advanced
- Item type
- skill
- Key
paper-analyzer-openlair- Source
- github.com/openlair/dr-claw
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