Is the Paper Insight skill free?

Yes. The skill itself is free from Stars-Shen/Paper-insight-skill. SkillProof publishes the install command and an independent test verdict at no cost.

What is the Paper Insight SkillProof Score?

9.6/10 — installs cleanly 5/5, triggers reliably 5/5, output vs. baseline 9/10, docs & honesty 5/5.

How do I install Paper Insight?

Copy the install command from this page, run it in your terminal, and restart Claude Code. Skills live in ~/.claude/skills/ (global) or .claude/skills/ inside a project.

Can I use Paper Insight with Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, Codex or other AI tools?

The SKILL.md format is native to Claude (Claude Code, Desktop, claude.ai). The instructions inside adapt to other assistants: Cursor rules, GitHub Copilot instructions, Windsurf rules, Custom GPTs, AGENTS.md for OpenAI Codex, and GEMINI.md for Google Gemini CLI — our conversion guides cover each, and the free converter on the tools page does the wrapping for you.

Paper Insight

Evidence-bound paper reading and research-ideation toolkit — scorecards, citation chaining, and future-direction generation from one clean, self-contained skill folder.

by Stars-Shen · Stars-Shen/Paper-insight-skill

Tested · Works

Install — copy the command Download source ↗

Test report

Verdict: Tested · Works
Score: 9.6/10
Tested: Jul 14, 2026
Environment: Claude Code 2.x (agent harness)
Upstream re-checked: Aug 10, 2026 · 0aab2b4

Ran a real structured-reading pass on GSM-Symbolic (arXiv 2410.05229, fetched live): the skill's own operating principle of separating 'paper claims' from 'evidence-supported conclusions' correctly flagged that the paper's headline 'LLMs can't perform genuine logical reasoning' is the authors' interpretation of the numerical-sensitivity/clause-injection results, not a directly proven fact — a plain baseline summary blurred that line entirely.

Scored on four weighted criteria — install, triggering, output vs. baseline, docs. How scoring works

Installs cleanly 5/5
Triggers reliably 5/5
Output vs. baseline 9/10
Docs & honesty 5/5

What Paper Insight does

A structured scholarly-reading skill that turns a paper or small paper set into citation-grounded notes: innovation judgment by layer (problem/method/data/evaluation/theory/engineering), backward/forward/lateral/benchmark/negative citation chaining, paper scorecards, related-work drafting, reproducibility checks, and limitation-to-research-direction conversion. Triggers on requests to read, score, compare, or extend academic papers, and explicitly separates paper claims from evidence-supported conclusions and unverified inference.

How to install Paper Insight

git clone https://github.com/Stars-Shen/Paper-insight-skill
cd Paper-insight-skill
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
cp -r paper-insight ~/.claude/skills/paper-insight

Skills live in ~/.claude/skills/ (global) or .claude/skills/ (per-project). Restart Claude Code after installing.

Commands — how to trigger Paper Insight

/paper-insight Evidence-bound paper reading and research-ideation toolkit — scorecards, citation chaining, and future-direction generation from one clean, self-contained skill folder.

It also activates on plain-language prompts like these:

Give me a structured critique of this arXiv reasoning paper
What future research directions come out of this study?
Score this paper's novelty and trace its key citations

Frequently asked questions

Is the Paper Insight skill free?: Yes. The skill itself is free from Stars-Shen/Paper-insight-skill. SkillProof publishes the install command and an independent test verdict at no cost.
Does Paper Insight work with Claude Code?: We tested it with Claude Code 2.x (agent harness) on Jul 14, 2026. Verdict: Tested · Works. Ran a real structured-reading pass on GSM-Symbolic (arXiv 2410.05229, fetched live): the skill's own operating principle of separating 'paper claims' from 'evidence-supported conclusions' correctly flagged that the paper's headline 'LLMs can't perform genuine logical reasoning' is the authors' interpretation of the numerical-sensitivity/clause-injection results, not a directly proven fact — a plain baseline summary blurred that line entirely.
What is the Paper Insight SkillProof Score?: 9.6/10 — installs cleanly 5/5, triggers reliably 5/5, output vs. baseline 9/10, docs & honesty 5/5.
How do I install Paper Insight?: Copy the install command from this page, run it in your terminal, and restart Claude Code. Skills live in ~/.claude/skills/ (global) or .claude/skills/ inside a project.
Can I use Paper Insight with Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, Codex or other AI tools?: The SKILL.md format is native to Claude (Claude Code, Desktop, claude.ai). The instructions inside adapt to other assistants: Cursor rules, GitHub Copilot instructions, Windsurf rules, Custom GPTs, AGENTS.md for OpenAI Codex, and GEMINI.md for Google Gemini CLI — our conversion guides cover each, and the free converter on the tools page does the wrapping for you.