PDF Question Answerer — Research agent for Claude Code
Use this agent when you need to analyze, extract information from, or answer questions about scientific PDFs.
How to install PDF Question Answerer
Installs to ~/.claude/agents/matsengrp-plugins-pdf-question-answerer.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/matsengrp/plugins/HEAD/agents/pdf-question-answerer.md -o ~/.claude/agents/matsengrp-plugins-pdf-question-answerer.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What PDF Question Answerer does
name: pdf-question-answerer description: Use this agent when you need to analyze, extract information from, or answer questions about scientific PDFs. This includes tasks like finding specific research findings, summarizing methodologies, extracting data from tables/figures, comparing results across papers, or providing expert interpretation of scientific content within PDF documents. Examples: Context: User has loaded a research paper PDF and wants to understand the methodology. us
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