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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 brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills (GitHub) · research · 5,016 stars · scanned at commit 8684584
31 database search skills. Trigger: finding papers, search strategies, querying academic databases. Design: one skill per database/tool with API details, query syntax, and rate limits.
Works with any agent that supports SKILL.md skills.
What this skill can do
Sends data to these websites: export.arxiv.org, arxiv.org, api.base-search.net, api.biorxiv.org
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- skills/43-wentorai-research-plugins/skills/literature/search/arxiv-api/SKILL.md, line 89
curl "http://export.arxiv.org/api/query?search_query=(ti:transformer+OR+abs:transformer)+AND+cat:cs.CL&max_results=20&sortBy=relevance" - skills/43-wentorai-research-plugins/skills/literature/search/arxiv-api/SKILL.md, line 97
curl "http://export.arxiv.org/api/query?id_list=2301.07041,2302.13971,2303.08774&max_results=3" - skills/43-wentorai-research-plugins/skills/literature/search/arxiv-cli-tools/SKILL.md, line 157
curl -s "https://arxiv.org/bibtex/1706.03762" - skills/43-wentorai-research-plugins/skills/literature/search/arxiv-paper-processor/SKILL.md, line 30
import urllib.request - skills/43-wentorai-research-plugins/skills/literature/search/arxiv-paper-processor/SKILL.md, line 36
response = urllib.request.urlopen(url) - skills/43-wentorai-research-plugins/skills/literature/search/arxiv-paper-processor/SKILL.md, line 52
wget https://arxiv.org/e-print/2301.07041 -O paper_source.tar.gz - skills/43-wentorai-research-plugins/skills/literature/search/arxiv-paper-processor/SKILL.md, line 78
curl -X POST "http://localhost:8070/api/processFulltextDocument" \ - skills/43-wentorai-research-plugins/skills/literature/search/base-academic-search/SKILL.md, line 31
curl "https://api.base-search.net/cgi-bin/BaseHttpSearchInterface.fcgi?\ - skills/43-wentorai-research-plugins/skills/literature/search/base-academic-search/SKILL.md, line 35
curl "https://api.base-search.net/cgi-bin/BaseHttpSearchInterface.fcgi?\ - skills/43-wentorai-research-plugins/skills/literature/search/base-academic-search/SKILL.md, line 39
curl "https://api.base-search.net/cgi-bin/BaseHttpSearchInterface.fcgi?\ - skills/43-wentorai-research-plugins/skills/literature/search/base-academic-search/SKILL.md, line 43
curl "https://api.base-search.net/cgi-bin/BaseHttpSearchInterface.fcgi?\ - skills/43-wentorai-research-plugins/skills/literature/search/base-academic-search/SKILL.md, line 138
resp = requests.get(BASE_URL, params=params) - skills/43-wentorai-research-plugins/skills/literature/search/biorxiv-api/SKILL.md, line 45
curl "https://api.biorxiv.org/details/biorxiv/2024-01-01/2024-01-31/0" - skills/43-wentorai-research-plugins/skills/literature/search/biorxiv-api/SKILL.md, line 66
curl "https://api.biorxiv.org/pubs/biorxiv/2024-01-01/2024-06-30/0" - skills/43-wentorai-research-plugins/skills/literature/search/biorxiv-api/SKILL.md, line 83
curl "https://api.biorxiv.org/details/biorxiv/2024-06-01/2024-06-07/0" \ - skills/43-wentorai-research-plugins/skills/literature/search/biorxiv-api/SKILL.md, line 93
curl "https://api.biorxiv.org/pubs/biorxiv/2024-01-01/2024-06-30/0" \ - skills/43-wentorai-research-plugins/skills/literature/search/biorxiv-api/SKILL.md, line 109
resp = requests.get(f"{base}/{cursor}").json()
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- skills/43-wentorai-research-plugins/skills/literature/search/arxiv-api/SKILL.md, line 89
curl "http://export.arxiv.org/api/query?search_query=(ti:transformer+OR+abs:transformer)+AND+cat:cs.CL&max_results=20&sortBy=relevance" - skills/43-wentorai-research-plugins/skills/literature/search/arxiv-api/SKILL.md, line 97
curl "http://export.arxiv.org/api/query?id_list=2301.07041,2302.13971,2303.08774&max_results=3" - skills/43-wentorai-research-plugins/skills/literature/search/arxiv-cli-tools/SKILL.md, line 23
pipx install arxiv-cli-tools - skills/43-wentorai-research-plugins/skills/literature/search/arxiv-cli-tools/SKILL.md, line 38
arxiv-cli search "transformer attention mechanism" - skills/43-wentorai-research-plugins/skills/literature/search/arxiv-cli-tools/SKILL.md, line 51
arxiv-cli search "attention mechanism" --authors "Vaswani" - skills/43-wentorai-research-plugins/skills/literature/search/arxiv-cli-tools/SKILL.md, line 79
arxiv-cli download --id 1706.03762 --dest ~/papers - skills/43-wentorai-research-plugins/skills/literature/search/arxiv-cli-tools/SKILL.md, line 89
arxiv-cli download --id 1706.03762 --id 2301.13688 --id 2303.08774 \ - skills/43-wentorai-research-plugins/skills/literature/search/arxiv-cli-tools/SKILL.md, line 103
arxiv-cli search "diffusion models survey" -n 10 --summary - skills/43-wentorai-research-plugins/skills/literature/search/arxiv-cli-tools/SKILL.md, line 141
DATE=$(date +%Y-%m-%d) - skills/43-wentorai-research-plugins/skills/literature/search/arxiv-cli-tools/SKILL.md, line 157
curl -s "https://arxiv.org/bibtex/1706.03762" - skills/43-wentorai-research-plugins/skills/literature/search/arxiv-paper-processor/SKILL.md, line 52
wget https://arxiv.org/e-print/2301.07041 -O paper_source.tar.gz - skills/43-wentorai-research-plugins/skills/literature/search/arxiv-paper-processor/SKILL.md, line 75
docker run --rm -p 8070:8070 grobid/grobid:0.8.0 - skills/43-wentorai-research-plugins/skills/literature/search/base-academic-search/SKILL.md, line 31
curl "https://api.base-search.net/cgi-bin/BaseHttpSearchInterface.fcgi?\ - skills/43-wentorai-research-plugins/skills/literature/search/biorxiv-api/SKILL.md, line 45
curl "https://api.biorxiv.org/details/biorxiv/2024-01-01/2024-01-31/0" - skills/43-wentorai-research-plugins/skills/literature/search/biorxiv-api/SKILL.md, line 66
curl "https://api.biorxiv.org/pubs/biorxiv/2024-01-01/2024-06-30/0" - skills/43-wentorai-research-plugins/skills/literature/search/biorxiv-api/SKILL.md, line 83
curl "https://api.biorxiv.org/details/biorxiv/2024-06-01/2024-06-07/0" \ - skills/43-wentorai-research-plugins/skills/literature/search/biorxiv-api/SKILL.md, line 93
curl "https://api.biorxiv.org/pubs/biorxiv/2024-01-01/2024-06-30/0" \
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Install
Paste this into your terminal. It downloads exactly the version we scanned, not whatever is newest.
if [ -e ~/.agents/skills/'search-skills' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'search-skills' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named search-skills already exists — not replacing it' >&2; false; else d=$(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/43-wentorai-research-plugins/skills/literature/search' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'skills/43-wentorai-research-plugins/skills/literature/search' ~/.agents/skills/'search-skills' && rm -rf "$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/'search-skills' ~/.claude/skills/'search-skills' (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 | 75 |
| 2026-11-08 | bfa0a6e | 75 |
| 2026-11-07 | bfa0a6e | 55 |