Paper Reader — Development agent for Claude Code
name: paper-reader description: Read and summarize academic papers for research gap analysis.
How to install Paper Reader
Installs to ~/.claude/agents/xujingchen1996-research-app-toolkit-paper-reader.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/xujingchen1996/research-app-toolkit/HEAD/agents/paper-reader.md -o ~/.claude/agents/xujingchen1996-research-app-toolkit-paper-reader.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Paper Reader does
name: paper-reader description: > Read and summarize academic papers for research gap analysis. Called by gap-analysis skill to process papers in parallel. Launch via Agent tool with subagent_type="paper-reader".
Context: User wants to analyze 5 papers for research gaps. user: "Analyze these papers for potential research gaps" assistant: "I'll launch paper-reader agents to process all papers in parallel." model: sonnet color: blue tools: - Read - GloAlternatives in Development
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Full documentation available on GitHub
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