paper-reading
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Select a local Zotero PDF and publish its MinerU Markdown and assets for downstream reading. Use when a paper has not yet been parsed or the user explicitly requests a fresh parse; hand interpretation to literature-reading.
20 other projects use a version of this.
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- crce-ux/paper-readingtheir own version, first seen Nov 8, 2026
- paratrooper-vincent/paper-readingtheir own version, first seen Nov 1, 2026
- xiaofengShi/paper-reading-skilltheir own version, first seen Oct 26, 2026
- jinxiy1104/Obsidian_Paper_Ingestion_Skilltheir own version, first seen Oct 20, 2026
- BH2-4/paper-craft-pipelinetheir own version, first seen Oct 20, 2026
- techdou/paper-readingtheir own version, first seen Oct 20, 2026
Other versions20 projects use a version of this.
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Wrote their own version · 20
- voidful/academic-skills★ 126same name
- jxtse/scientific-research-skills★ 68same name
- Immortalqx/my_codex_skills★ 54same name
- Agentchengfeng/paper-reading-skills★ 28same name
- Kingslayer-bot/paper-reading-skill★ 28same name
- a1henu/paper-reading-skill★ 11same name
- xiaofengShi/paper-reading-skill★ 11same name
- Shen-An/learn-skill★ 5same name
- techdou/paper-reading★ 5same name
- JinukMoon/agent-skills★ 4same name
10 more not listed
How matches are found. Word for word: the exact same text. Edited: shares passages with this file (“99% same” means 99% of its five-word phrases also appear here; 10% or more counts). Their own version: similar meaning, or, weakest, the same name. We can’t tell which project had it first. Projects are counted among the 200 most-starred candidates, and mentions are links to the repository we found, up to 50 per site, so both counts are a floor.
In this repository9 other files it gives its agents.
- academic-citationSkill
- chemical-dataSkill
- literature-readingSkill
- materials-projectSkill
- obsidian-literature-baseSkill
- omnischolarSkill
- scholar-searchSkill
- scientific-figureSkill
- zotero-researchSkill
The file
We split this skill into the rules it gives an agent
4 rules. 0 are common, 2 are distinctive, and 2 are very specific to this project.
0
Common
Most of the 10 edited versions we read keep these.
2
Distinctive
This author's own choices. Worth a look.
2
Very specific
Tied to their project's names, files or tools. Probably skip.
- Common
- Distinctive
- Very specific
- Very specific: line 15
When parsing is needed, call omnischolar_parse directly after the user has authorized the selected PDF's external upload.
- Very specific: line 16
Do not set force unless the user explicitly requests a fresh parse and understands that it may upload the PDF again.
- Distinctive: line 20
Read references/sync.md only for an explicit synchronization, repair, exclusion, conflict, or recovery request.
- Distinctive: line 22
If MinerU is unavailable, Zotero indexed text may answer a narrow question when coverage is sufficient and the limitation is explicit.
“Common” is measured: kept by at least 6 in 10 of the 10 edited versions of this file we could read. “Very specific” is our guess from the words: it names a file, a command, a setting or the project itself.
Files
Prepare a paper for local reading
This Skill owns attachment selection and MinerU publication, not interpretation. Its successful handoff is an exact publication.markdownPath, paper identity, and parser limitations.
Workflow
- Resolve the bibliographic parent and attachments with
zotero_itemin aggregate mode. If more than one PDF is available, list attachment keys and filenames, ask the user to choose, and do not parse or synchronize until an explicitattachmentKeyis confirmed. - Reuse an already known, readable
publication.markdownPathunless the user requested a fresh parse or the source identity/version is inconsistent. Do not query or upload again merely because interpretation was requested. - When parsing is needed, call
omnischolar_parsedirectly after the user has authorized the selected PDF's external upload. The parse call performs MinerU cache lookup or upload before publication safety checks; do not makeomnischolar_sync action=plana mandatory parse preflight. - Do not set
forceunless the user explicitly requests a fresh parse and understands that it may upload the PDF again. Never use it to bypass a conflict, exclusion, missing publication, or interrupted transaction. - From the result, verify
publication.markdownPath, bibliographic frontmatter,metadata.json, and sibling assets. Parsed image filenames begin with the Zotero key. Report OCR, formula, table, image, or layout limitations that affect downstream reading. - Hand all interpretation, evidence location, and figure/table/equation reading to
literature-reading. Do not write an interpretation file from this Skill.
Read references/sync.md only for an explicit synchronization, repair, exclusion, conflict, or recovery request. Those states govern publication, not whether MinerU may probe its cache or process an explicitly authorized PDF first.
If MinerU is unavailable, Zotero indexed text may answer a narrow question when coverage is sufficient and the limitation is explicit. Do not claim a complete paper interpretation from metadata, notes, annotations, or incomplete indexed text.
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