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papers-skill

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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 boisenoise/skills-collections (GitHub) · research · 12 stars · scanned at commit 419c39f

Skill for academic research workflows: search Semantic Scholar (200M+ papers), inspect citations, download arXiv PDFs, and extract PDF text. Bundles a self-contained Python CLI.

Works with any agent that supports SKILL.md skills.

What this skill can do

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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/'papers-skill' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'papers-skill' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named papers-skill already exists — not replacing it' >&2; false; else d=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/boisenoise/skills-collections' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet '419c39fde874b8baecbb36a397b967e0190a2ece' -- 'skills/antigravity-papers-skill' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'skills/antigravity-papers-skill' ~/.agents/skills/'papers-skill' && 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/'papers-skill' ~/.claude/skills/'papers-skill' (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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