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scientific-literature-search

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Fine to try.

By BioTender-max/awesome-bio-agent-skills (GitHub) · design · 219 stars · scanned at commit 8cbdd18

Systematic strategies for searching scientific literature across PubMed, arXiv, Google Scholar, and AI-assisted tools. Covers PICO framework for clinical questions, three-tiered search (database-specific, AI-assisted, content extraction), PubMed field tags and MeSH, boolean query construction, and full-text extraction. Use when planning a literature search or choosing a search tier.

Works with any agent that supports SKILL.md skills.

What this skill can do

Install

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

if [ -e ~/.agents/skills/'scientific-literature-search' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'scientific-literature-search' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named scientific-literature-search already exists — not replacing it' >&2; false; else d=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/BioTender-max/awesome-bio-agent-skills' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet '8cbdd18837aa6296c4e77616a03b323bd69b57b1' -- 'skills/sciagent/scientific-literature-search' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'skills/sciagent/scientific-literature-search' ~/.agents/skills/'scientific-literature-search' && 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/'scientific-literature-search' ~/.claude/skills/'scientific-literature-search' (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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