manage-refs

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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 references must be written, rendered or converted. Checks [@key] citation keys, renders the reference list with a journal CSL via pandoc, converts [N] markers, injects Zotero Word field codes and runs manuscript-DOCX cross-reference QC. Read-only auditing is /verify-refs.

Works with any agent that supports SKILL.md skills.

What this skill can do

Runs commands on your computer

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Found in 13 places.

skills/manage-refs/SKILL.md, line 50"${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/scripts/render_pandoc.sh" \
skills/manage-refs/SKILL.md, line 65python3 "${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/scripts/check_xref.py" \
skills/manage-refs/SKILL.md, line 81python3 "${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/scripts/md_marker_convert.py" \

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skills/manage-refs/SKILL.md, line 95python3 "${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/scripts/inject_zotero_cwyw.py" \
skills/manage-refs/SKILL.md, line 155python3 "${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/scripts/check_xref.py" \
skills/manage-refs/SKILL.md, line 179bash "${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/scripts/pre_submission_gate.sh" \
skills/manage-refs/SKILL.md, line 210unzip -p out.docx word/document.xml | sed 's/<[^>]*>//g' | grep -oE "[A-Z]{2} [A-Z], [A-Z]{2} [A-Z]" # corruption signature in output
skills/manage-refs/scripts/check_csl_render.py, line 200proc = subprocess.run(["pandoc", "-f", "markdown", *reader_options(pandoc_args), "-t", "json",
skills/manage-refs/scripts/check_csl_render.py, line 248proc = subprocess.run(["pandoc", "-f", "biblatex", "-t", "csljson"], input=bib_text,
skills/manage-refs/scripts/check_csl_render.py, line 327proc = subprocess.run(
skills/manage-refs/scripts/fill_journal_abbrev.py, line 309p = subprocess.run(["pandoc", "-f", "biblatex", "-t", "csljson"], input=text,
skills/manage-refs/tests/test_journal_abbrev_parsing.sh, line 156p = subprocess.run([PANDOC, path, "-f", "biblatex", "-t", "csljson"], capture_output=True, text=True)
skills/manage-refs/tests/test_reference_duplication.sh, line 42check "no claims on clean fixture" bash -c "

Sends data to these websites: www.zotero.org

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Found in 7 places.

skills/manage-refs/citation_styles/README.md, line 67curl -fsSL -o "${s}.csl" "https://www.zotero.org/styles/${s}"
skills/manage-refs/scripts/fill_journal_abbrev.py, line 52import urllib.request
skills/manage-refs/scripts/fill_journal_abbrev.py, line 71with urllib.request.urlopen(urllib.request.Request(url, headers=UA), timeout=30) as r:

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skills/manage-refs/scripts/inject_zotero_cwyw.py, line 43import urllib.request
skills/manage-refs/scripts/inject_zotero_cwyw.py, line 61with urllib.request.urlopen(url, timeout=10) as r:
skills/manage-refs/scripts/inject_zotero_cwyw.py, line 77with urllib.request.urlopen(url, timeout=10) as r:
skills/manage-refs/tests/fixtures/pre_submission_gate/run.sh, line 78if grep -qiE "network|connection|temporary failure|name resolution|timed out|urlopen" "$WORK_DIR/default.log"; then

Downloads and installs other software

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Found in 4 places.

skills/manage-refs/references/check_xref_symptoms.md, line 76`pip install python-docx`, or omit `--docx` for a body-only audit
skills/manage-refs/scripts/check_csl_render.py, line 376"(pip install python-docx)."
skills/manage-refs/scripts/check_xref.py, line 316"(install with: pip install python-docx)") from exc

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skills/manage-refs/scripts/md_marker_convert.py, line 183sys.exit("ERROR: python-docx is required for .docx input. `pip install python-docx`")

Install

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

if [ -e ~/.agents/skills/'manage-refs' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'manage-refs' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named manage-refs 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 "$d" checkout --quiet 'e0ea3b0be3bf529aa0b94ee5fd8450e78848932c' -- 'skills/manage-refs' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'skills/manage-refs' ~/.agents/skills/'manage-refs' && 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/'manage-refs' ~/.claude/skills/'manage-refs' (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