By name: PaperProcessor description: Analyze academic papers and produce summaries focused on higher education implications, faculty digital fluency, and academic AI governance. USE WHEN user says "analyze this paper", "process this paper", "paper summary", "what does this paper say", "summarize this research", or provides a file path ending in .pdf for analysis. metadata: author: dale-pike version: "1.1"
PaperProcessor - Academic Paper Analysis for Higher Education
Unified pipeline that takes an academic paper (PDF, URL, or file path), analyzes it with Fabric patterns, applies a higher education lens, and produces a structured summary with save options.
When to Use This Skill
| Trigger | Workflow |
|---|---|
| "Analyze this paper" | ProcessPaper (full) |
| "Process this paper" | ProcessPaper (full) |
| "Paper summary" | ProcessPaper (full) |
| "What does this paper say" | QuickAnalysis (fast) |
| "Summarize this research" | QuickAnalysis (fast) |
| "Quick summary of [paper]" | QuickAnalysis (fast) |
| File path ending in .pdf + analysis request | ProcessPaper (full) |
| "Full analysis of [paper]" | ProcessPaper (full) |
Default: If ambiguous, ask which workflow to use.
Explicit override: User can say "full analysis" or "quick summary" to force a workflow.
Workflows
ProcessPaper (Full Pipeline)
Complete analysis with Fabric patterns, higher ed lens, and save options.
See: Workflows/ProcessPaper.md
Phases:
- Acquire & Extract text from source
- Analyze with Fabric patterns (
analyze_paper,extract_wisdom) - Apply Higher Education Lens (
HigherEdLens.md) - Produce structured output
- Offer to save and integrate
QuickAnalysis (Fast)
Lightweight summary with key findings and brief higher ed implications. No file save by default.
See: Workflows/QuickAnalysis.md
Accepted Input Formats
| Input | How Processed |
|---|---|
| Local PDF file path | pdftotext extraction |
| Local DOCX/ODT/other | pandoc conversion to text |
| Local markdown/text | Read directly |
| URL to paper | WebFetch to download content |
Tools Used
| Tool | Purpose |
|---|---|
pdftotext (poppler) |
PDF text extraction |
pandoc |
Format conversion for non-PDF documents |
ghostscript |
Rasterize scanned PDFs for vision fallback |
Fabric analyze_paper |
Scientific rigor and quality assessment |
Fabric extract_wisdom |
Key ideas, insights, quotes extraction |
Output Location
When saved, analyses go to a topic-appropriate folder under resources/. The topic is selected at save time by scanning the live resources/ directory and choosing the best match for the paper's subject matter:
resources/[topic]/paper-analyses/YYYY-MM-DD-[short-title]-analysis.md
If your resources/ directory uses a different structure, adjust the path accordingly.