Claude Paper
Transform research papers into comprehensive learning environments
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A powerful Claude Code plugin that automates research paper study through intelligent material generation, code demonstrations, and an interactive web viewer.
Library View - Browse and search your paper collection
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Reading View - Study papers with rich formatting and math support
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Features
- Automatic PDF parsing - Extract title, authors, abstract, and full content
- Smart content truncation - Handles large papers (50k char limit) intelligently
- Code repository detection - Automatically finds GitHub, arXiv, CodeOcean links
- Adaptive learning materials - Generates README, summary, insights, Q&A based on paper complexity
- Code demonstrations - Clean implementations with Jupyter notebooks and original code integration
- Interactive web viewer - Nuxt.js interface with math equation support (KaTeX)
- Intelligent assessment - Difficulty levels and paper type detection for adaptive content generation
Quick Start
Installation
Install from the Claude Code marketplace:
# Add the marketplace
/plugin marketplace add alaliqing/claude-paper
# Install the plugin
/plugin install claude-paper
# Restart Claude Code for the plugin to take effect
That's it! The plugin will automatically:
- Install all dependencies (pdf-parse for PDF processing)
- Create the papers directory at
~/claude-papers/
- Initialize the search index
- Install web viewer dependencies
System Requirements
- Node.js: 18.0.0 or higher
- npm: Comes with Node.js
- Claude Code: Latest version with plugin support
- poppler-utils: For PDF image extraction (install via system package manager)
- macOS:
brew install poppler
- Ubuntu/Debian:
sudo apt-get install poppler-utils
- Arch Linux:
sudo pacman -S poppler
Usage
Study a Research Paper
Simply talk to Claude Code to study a paper:
Help me study the paper at ~/Downloads/attention-is-all-you-need.pdf
You can also use URLs:
# Direct PDF URL
Help me study the paper at https://arxiv.org/pdf/1706.03762.pdf
# arXiv abstract URL (automatically converted to PDF)
Help me study the paper at https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.03762
Claude will automatically trigger the study workflow and:
- Parse the PDF and extract metadata
- Analyze paper complexity and type
- Generate adaptive learning materials
- Create code demonstrations (if applicable)
- Extract and include original code (if available)
- Extract key figures and images
- Update the global search index
- Launch the web viewer automatically
Launch Web Viewer
/claude-paper:webui
Opens the interactive web interface at http://localhost:5815 where you can:
- Browse all studied papers
- View generated materials with math rendering
- Access code demonstrations and notebooks
- Search through your paper library
Paper Storage Structure
Papers are organized in ~/claude-papers/papers/{paper-slug}/:
~/claude-papers/
├── papers/
│ └── {paper-slug}/
│ ├── paper.pdf # Original PDF file
│ ├── meta.json # Paper metadata (title, authors, etc.)
│ ├── README.md # Quick navigation and overview
│ ├── summary.md # Detailed summary
│ ├── insights.md # Key insights (most important!)
│ ├── method.md # Methodology (if complex)
│ ├── mental-model.md # Paper categorization (if needed)
│ ├── reflection.md # Future directions (if needed)
│ ├── qa.md # Learning questions
│ ├── index.html # Interactive HTML explorer
│ ├── images/ # Extracted figures and tables
│ │ ├── fig1.png
│ │ └── fig2.png
│ └── code/ # Code demonstrations
│ ├── core-demo.py # Clean reference implementation
│ └── concept-demo.ipynb # Interactive Jupyter notebook
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└── index.json # Global search index
Architecture
Plugin Structure