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Interactive Paper Explainers — Productivity skill for Claude Code

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A Claude Code skill that turns an academic paper PDF into a single self-contained interactive HTML explainer (Brain Dead Mode + Normal Mode, with approval gates).

How to install Interactive Paper Explainers

This entry records only its repository, not the path inside it, so there is no exact command to give. Open sukanthoriginal/interactive-paper-explainers and copy the folder into ~/.claude/skills/, or the file into ~/.claude/agents/.

What Interactive Paper Explainers does

A Claude Code skill that turns an academic paper PDF into a single self-contained interactive HTML explainer (Brain Dead Mode + Normal Mode, with approval gates). Forked workflow from paraschopra/make-pages-interactive.

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README

interactive-paper-explainers

A Claude Code skill that turns an academic paper PDF into a single self-contained interactive HTML explainer.

Published explainers live at

Published explainers homepage:

Default tabs, in order:

braindead — the entire paper in 5 minutes, no jargon, heavy analogies.
braingood — the rigorous version with interactive widgets, click-to-expand concept cards, animated visualizations, and a quiz.
comment/feedback — the built-in review surface for highlighting text, selecting elements, and submitting feedback batches.

Every generated explainer should include all three tabs by default, open on `braindead`, and wire `comment/feedback` after `braingood` is built.

The skill always **asks for approval before starting each explanation mode** — so you can review `braindead`, course-correct, then green-light `braingood` separately. The `comment/feedback` tab is part of the default shell and is wired after the page is complete.

Forked from

This skill is a derivative of Paras Chopra's [`make-pages-interactive`](https://github.com/paraschopra/make-pages-interactive). That skill turns any folder of HTML pages into a live commenting surface — you highlight text, leave a note, and Claude edits the page in response.

This repo bundles the original commenting runtime (`lib/` and `scripts/`) **vendored verbatim under MIT** from upstream, plus a new `SKILL.md` that adds the paper-explainer workflow on top. So a single install gives you both halves:

The new SKILL.md workflow generates the paper explainer HTML.
The vendored lib/ and scripts/ make that HTML commentable through the default comment/feedback tab and floating feedback panel.

The original repository is not modified — Paras's upstream is unchanged and remains the canonical source for the commenting layer.

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