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Finding Open Access Papers
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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 brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills (GitHub) · research · 5,016 stars · scanned at commit 8684584
Use Unpaywall API to find free full-text versions of paywalled papers
Works with any agent that supports SKILL.md skills.
What this skill can do
Sends data to these websites: api.unpaywall.org, doi.org, eutils.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
This is disclosed by the author in the skill's SKILL.md or README. Expected for a research skill.
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- skills/05-kthorn-research-superpower/research/finding-open-access-papers/SKILL.md, line 119
curl "https://api.unpaywall.org/v2/10.1234/example.2023?email=your@email.com" - skills/05-kthorn-research-superpower/research/finding-open-access-papers/SKILL.md, line 126
response=$(curl -s "https://api.unpaywall.org/v2/DOI?email=EMAIL") - skills/05-kthorn-research-superpower/research/finding-open-access-papers/SKILL.md, line 136
curl -L -o "papers/paper.pdf" "$pdf_url" - skills/05-kthorn-research-superpower/research/finding-open-access-papers/SKILL.md, line 188
pmc_result=$(curl "https://eutils.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/...") - skills/05-kthorn-research-superpower/research/finding-open-access-papers/SKILL.md, line 195
doi_result=$(curl -L "https://doi.org/$doi") - skills/05-kthorn-research-superpower/research/finding-open-access-papers/SKILL.md, line 198
unpaywall_result=$(curl "https://api.unpaywall.org/v2/$doi?email=$EMAIL") - skills/05-kthorn-research-superpower/research/finding-open-access-papers/SKILL.md, line 236
response = requests.get(url, params=params, timeout=10) - skills/05-kthorn-research-superpower/research/finding-open-access-papers/SKILL.md, line 265
response = requests.get(pdf_url) - skills/05-kthorn-research-superpower/research/finding-open-access-papers/SKILL.md, line 316
| Check if OA available | `curl "https://api.unpaywall.org/v2/DOI?email=EMAIL"` | - skills/05-kthorn-research-superpower/research/finding-open-access-papers/SKILL.md, line 320
| Download PDF | `curl -L -o paper.pdf "$pdf_url"` |
Runs commands on your computer
The author does not mention this.
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Install
Paste this into your terminal. It downloads exactly the version we scanned, not whatever is newest.
if [ -e ~/.agents/skills/'finding-open-access-papers' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'finding-open-access-papers' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named finding-open-access-papers already exists — not replacing it' >&2; false; else d=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet '8684584e7d1127940f018157d2c579974fae8f79' -- 'skills/05-kthorn-research-superpower/research/finding-open-access-papers' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'skills/05-kthorn-research-superpower/research/finding-open-access-papers' ~/.agents/skills/'finding-open-access-papers' && rm -rf "$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/'finding-open-access-papers' ~/.claude/skills/'finding-open-access-papers' (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 |
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| 2026-11-10 | 8684584 | 92 |
| 2026-11-08 | bfa0a6e | 92 |
| 2026-11-07 | bfa0a6e | 92 |