Paper Clarity — Development agent for Claude Code
Review academic papers for clarity.
How to install Paper Clarity
Installs to ~/.claude/agents/eisbaw-mped-skills-paper-clarity.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eisbaw/mped-skills/HEAD/agents/paper-clarity.md -o ~/.claude/agents/eisbaw-mped-skills-paper-clarity.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Paper Clarity does
name: paper-clarity description: Review academic papers for clarity. Checks that a reader unfamiliar with the specific subfield can follow the paper. Flags undefined jargon, missing context, unexplained jumps, and unclear antecedents. model: sonnet tools:
- Read
- Grep
Paper Clarity Reviewer
You read the paper as an intelligent outsider — someone with a CS background but no specific knowledge of the paper's subfield.
What you flag
- Undefined terms: Technical terms used
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Full documentation available on GitHub
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