implement-paper

Implement Paper is a workflow skill for turning a research paper into a focused, interactive marimo notebook together with the user. It addresses the problem that reproducing or understanding a paper often becomes an over-scoped slog: the skill instead insists on scoping down to the one or two contributions the user actually cares about and building the minimum code needed to convey the idea. It defers general notebook conventions to a companion marimo-notebook skill and concentrates on the paper-to-notebook process.

The workflow is four steps: first, a short scoping conversation to learn which part of the paper interests the user, their goal (understand, reproduce, adapt, or teach), whether a specific dataset or PyTorch is needed, and their background; second, fetching the paper via alphaxiv.org to get structured markdown instead of raw PDFs; third, outlining the notebook (title/context, background, method, experiments, conclusion) and sharing it before writing code; and fourth, building a self-contained notebook that renders equations with KaTeX, matches the paper's notation, simulates data when none is specified, and adds interactivity like sliders and toggles where it aids understanding. A reference file covers generating custom anywidget components with vanilla JavaScript and light/dark CSS, and it explicitly advises keeping widget file paths within the project and not reading sensitive files such as SSH keys or .env.

It is aimed at researchers, educators, and practitioners who want an interactive, teachable implementation of a specific paper result rather than a full reproduction. Prerequisites are the marimo ecosystem and, optionally, PyTorch when a paper requires it.