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Paper Review — Documentation skill for Claude Code

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Read an academic paper PDF and produce methodology documentation for implementation.

How to install Paper Review

Installs to ~/.claude/commands/igerber-diff-diff-paper-review.md

Terminal

mkdir -p ~/.claude/commands && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/igerber/diff-diff/HEAD/.claude/commands/paper-review.md -o ~/.claude/commands/igerber-diff-diff-paper-review.md

Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.

What Paper Review does

description: Read an academic paper PDF and produce methodology documentation for implementation argument-hint: " [--name ] [--confirm]"

Paper Review

Read an academic paper (PDF) and produce structured methodology documentation suitable for implementation. Uses multi-agent extraction to handle long papers without overwhelming the context window.

Arguments

Parse `$ARGUMENTS` to extract:

PDF path (required): First positional argument. Must be a path

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