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alterlab-biorxiv

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Fine to try. Some of what it can do is expected: a research skill usually looks things up on the internet.

By AlterLab-IEU/AlterLab-Academic-Skills (GitHub) · research · 87 stars · scanned at commit 3ab6d03

Search the bioRxiv preprint server and retrieve paper metadata or download PDFs via its API. Use when finding life sciences preprints by keywords, authors, DOI, date ranges, or categories, or when conducting a biology literature review of not-yet-peer-reviewed work. Part of the AlterLab Academic Skills suite.

Works with any agent that supports SKILL.md skills.

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What this skill can do

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Paste this into your terminal. It downloads exactly the version we scanned, not whatever is newest.

if [ -e ~/.agents/skills/'alterlab-biorxiv' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'alterlab-biorxiv' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named alterlab-biorxiv already exists — not replacing it' >&2; false; else d=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/AlterLab-IEU/AlterLab-Academic-Skills' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet '3ab6d034385ec4fedc3f6f4099292d4e91f60300' -- 'skills/databases/alterlab-biorxiv' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'skills/databases/alterlab-biorxiv' ~/.agents/skills/'alterlab-biorxiv' && rm -rf "$d"; fi

Codex reads ~/.agents/skills directly. For Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, Antigravity or OpenCode, also link it. For Claude Code: ln -s ~/.agents/skills/'alterlab-biorxiv' ~/.claude/skills/'alterlab-biorxiv' (other agents: ~/.cursor/skills, ~/.copilot/skills, ~/.gemini/skills, ~/.gemini/config/skills, ~/.config/opencode/skills). Or install through the finder skill, which does both.

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