# Summarize Research

> Summarize an academic research paper for an intelligent non-specialist audience and save the summary as a Markdown or PDF file. Accepts the paper as a PDF, plain text, or a URL (arXiv, journal, blog). Use this skill whenever the user asks for a summary, explanation, breakdown, or review of a research paper, academic article, journal article, preprint, or scientific study. Trigger phrases include 'summarize this paper', 'explain this paper', 'what does this paper say', 'break down this study', 'summarize this article', or any time the user supplies a paper (PDF/URL/text) and wants it explained. Do NOT use for summarizing non-academic documents like reports, whitepapers, or news articles.

## Facts
- Page: https://tashan.sh/capability/skill-shanejorr-summarize-research
- tashan id: skill:shanejorr/summarize-research
- Source: https://github.com/shanejorr/ai-plugins
- Type: skill
- Category: docs
- tashan score: not scored (catalogued only — too little public evidence)
- Adoption: 9.0
- Upkeep: 61.0
- Freshness: 92.0
- Evidence coverage: 84% of the inputs this score can use
- Health: active
- Instruction depth: not yet graded
- Official: no

## Install

```sh
cp -r summarize-research ~/.claude/skills/
```

## Security audit
Not scanned. We audit npm-published capabilities; this one has no npm package we can resolve, or has not reached the queue. This is not a clean bill of health.

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Measured 2026-08-15 by tashan (https://tashan.sh) from public evidence. Scorer s5.