Academic Paper Parse
v1.2.0Conduct in-depth dual-mode reading of academic papers from PDFs or URLs, providing detailed analysis for researchers and concise summaries for quick understa...
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high confidencePurpose & Capability
The name/description (deep reading of academic papers) aligns with the actual requirements: reading PDFs/URLs, producing structured reports, and using the file and message tools. Requested artifacts (temp files, templates, pdftotext optional) are reasonable for this purpose.
Instruction Scope
The SKILL.md is specific about extracting text, inspecting figures, creating a temp analysis file, and deleting it afterward — all on-topic. Minor ambiguity: it instructs the agent to "attempt to download the PDF before extracting" but lists only the file and message tools; this is probably fine if the platform's file tool supports URL reads, but the skill does not explicitly name a network/download tool.
Install Mechanism
Instruction-only skill with no install spec or third-party downloads; it optionally prefers pdftotext if available but falls back to the file tool. No binaries or external install actions that would write arbitrary code to disk.
Credentials
No environment variables, credentials, or config paths are requested. The skill's data needs (read PDFs, write temporary files, deliver via message tool) are proportional to its stated function.
Persistence & Privilege
always is false and the skill does not request persistent system presence or elevated privileges. It writes and deletes its own temporary files only and does not modify other skills or system-wide configs.
Assessment
This skill is coherent and does what it says: read PDFs (or download them), analyze, and produce two structured reports. Before installing, confirm that (1) your platform's file tool can access URLs or that you will supply the PDF as an attachment, since the skill expects to download/ read PDFs; (2) you are comfortable allowing the agent to read the full paper (including figures/references) — avoid sending unpublished or confidential manuscripts if you do not want them processed; (3) the runtime either provides pdftotext or can extract text via the file tool for the best results; and (4) the platform's file/message tools will not leak attachments to third parties. If you need tighter controls, ask the skill author to explicitly name the mechanism used for downloading PDFs and to document any telemetry or external network endpoints used (none are present in the current SKILL.md).Like a lobster shell, security has layers — review code before you run it.
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MIT-0
Free to use, modify, and redistribute. No attribution required.