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A research paper can describe a useful method in a few pages, yet applying it to your own data may require hours of repository hunting, dependency setup, notebook editing, and result checking. Paper2Agent is an open project designed to close that gap. It converts papers into agent-readable skills and turns supported research repositories into tested Model Context Protocol tools. It is not a “drop in any PDF and get an authoritative scientist” service. The Paper2Agent study, published in Nature on September 16, 2026, reports that a substantial fraction of repositories still could not be agentified because of incomplete code, missing documentation, or environments that could not be resolved. This guide uses the official repository and paper as checked on September 19 to explain how to install the project for Codex or Claude Code, choose the right conversion route, and decide whether the result is ready to use. At a glance A paper-only input becomes a searchable paper skill ; an e...