paper-analyzer

SkillDocs & knowledge

Lets your agent read an arXiv paper and produce detailed study notes covering methods, results, and weaknesses.

Available today. Use it from your connected AI after setup.

Add ahel to your AI once: Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Claude Code or Codex. Then ask it to use this.

Then ask your AI: use the paper-analyzer skill

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 template
  • scripts/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.

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