paper-writer - Analyze research papers and draft detailed reading posts
Analyzes a single research paper from its PDF and drafts a detailed blog post with extracted figures, explanatory diagrams, mathematics, and valid frontmatter.
Tags
Updated: 2026-10-07research-paperspaper-analysistechnical-writingpdf-processingfigure-extractionexcalidrawmathematical-explanationblog-generation
Typical Inputs
What this skill does
- Acquire the source paper
- Extract paper text
- Render paper pages
- Analyze paper techniques
- Plan the blog outline
- Extract original figures
- Author explanatory diagrams
- Explain techniques with mathematics
- Write the reading post
- Add blog frontmatter
- Verify the paper post
Inputs
- ArXiv link
- PDF URL
- Local PDF path
- Attached paper PDF
- Paper topic or title
- Paper-reading area
- Audience preference
- Depth focus
Outputs
- Detailed paper-reading blog post
- Extracted figure image files
- Redrawn Excalidraw diagrams
- Blog frontmatter
- Paper analysis outline
- Cross-links to related posts
- Verified post status
Requirements
- my-website repository
- PDF processing tools
- Python 3
- Bash
- Paper-writer scripts
- Blog-writer diagram tooling
