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fulltext-retrieval
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Check before installing. Some of what it can do is expected: a research skill usually looks things up on the internet.
By Aperivue/medsci-skills (GitHub) · research · 379 stars · scanned at commit e0ea3b0
Use when you need full-text PDFs for a list of DOIs, such as a meta-analysis screening set. Batch-downloads open-access copies via Unpaywall, PMC, OpenAlex and Crossref, lists paywalled papers for manual access, and can convert PDFs to Markdown.
Works with any agent that supports SKILL.md skills.
What this skill can do
Runs commands on your computer
The author does not mention this.
Found in 7 places.
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- skills/fulltext-retrieval/fetch_oa.py, line 305
except (OSError, subprocess.SubprocessError): - skills/fulltext-retrieval/fetch_oa.py, line 319
out = subprocess.run(["pdfinfo", str(path)], capture_output=True, timeout=20) - skills/fulltext-retrieval/fetch_oa.py, line 320
except (OSError, subprocess.SubprocessError): - skills/fulltext-retrieval/tests/test_source_identity.py, line 228
patch.object(m.subprocess, "run", side_effect=subprocess.TimeoutExpired("pdftotext", 20)):
Downloads and installs other software
The author does not mention this.
Found in 3 places.
Connects to the internet
The author does not mention this. Expected for a research skill.
Found in 15 places.
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- skills/fulltext-retrieval/fetch_oa.py, line 361
req = urllib.request.Request(url, headers={"User-Agent": _ua(email)}) - skills/fulltext-retrieval/fetch_oa.py, line 362
with urllib.request.urlopen(req, timeout=15) as resp: - skills/fulltext-retrieval/fetch_oa.py, line 402
req = urllib.request.Request(url, headers={"User-Agent": _ua(email)}) - skills/fulltext-retrieval/fetch_oa.py, line 403
with urllib.request.urlopen(req, timeout=15) as resp: - skills/fulltext-retrieval/fetch_oa.py, line 476
req = urllib.request.Request(url, headers={"User-Agent": _ua(email)}) - skills/fulltext-retrieval/fetch_oa.py, line 477
with urllib.request.urlopen(req, timeout=15) as resp: - skills/fulltext-retrieval/fetch_oa.py, line 495
req = urllib.request.Request(url, headers={"User-Agent": _ua(email)}) - skills/fulltext-retrieval/fetch_oa.py, line 496
with urllib.request.urlopen(req, timeout=15) as resp: - skills/fulltext-retrieval/tests/test_source_identity.py, line 212
with patch.object(m.urllib.request, "urlopen", side_effect=fake_urlopen): - skills/fulltext-retrieval/tests/test_source_identity.py, line 288
patch.object(m.urllib.request, "urlopen", side_effect=AssertionError("network forbidden")), \ - skills/fulltext-retrieval/tests/test_source_identity.py, line 324
patch.object(m.urllib.request, "urlopen", side_effect=AssertionError("network forbidden")), \ - skills/fulltext-retrieval/tests/test_source_identity.py, line 345
patch.object(m.urllib.request, "urlopen", side_effect=AssertionError("network forbidden")), \
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Install
Paste this into your terminal. It downloads exactly the version we scanned, not whatever is newest.
if [ -e ~/.agents/skills/'fulltext-retrieval' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'fulltext-retrieval' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named fulltext-retrieval already exists — not replacing it' >&2; false; else d=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/Aperivue/medsci-skills' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet 'e0ea3b0be3bf529aa0b94ee5fd8450e78848932c' -- 'skills/fulltext-retrieval' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'skills/fulltext-retrieval' ~/.agents/skills/'fulltext-retrieval' && 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/'fulltext-retrieval' ~/.claude/skills/'fulltext-retrieval' (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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Score history
| Date | Version | Score |
|---|
| 2026-11-13 | e0ea3b0 | 75 |
| 2026-11-07 | cc462bc | 100 |