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open-library-api
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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
Search and access book metadata via the Open Library API
Works with any agent that supports SKILL.md skills.
What this skill can do
Sends data to these websites: openlibrary.org
This is disclosed by the author in the skill's SKILL.md or README. Expected for a research skill.
Found in 16 places.
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- skills/43-wentorai-research-plugins/skills/literature/search/open-library-api/SKILL.md, line 34
curl "https://openlibrary.org/search.json?q=statistics&subject=data+analysis" - skills/43-wentorai-research-plugins/skills/literature/search/open-library-api/SKILL.md, line 37
curl "https://openlibrary.org/search.json?q=artificial+intelligence&first_publish_year=2020" - skills/43-wentorai-research-plugins/skills/literature/search/open-library-api/SKILL.md, line 40
curl "https://openlibrary.org/search.json?q=calculus&sort=editions" - skills/43-wentorai-research-plugins/skills/literature/search/open-library-api/SKILL.md, line 47
curl "https://openlibrary.org/works/OL45804W.json" - skills/43-wentorai-research-plugins/skills/literature/search/open-library-api/SKILL.md, line 50
curl "https://openlibrary.org/books/OL7353617M.json" - skills/43-wentorai-research-plugins/skills/literature/search/open-library-api/SKILL.md, line 53
curl "https://openlibrary.org/isbn/9780262035613.json" - skills/43-wentorai-research-plugins/skills/literature/search/open-library-api/SKILL.md, line 56
curl "https://openlibrary.org/api/books?bibkeys=ISBN:9780262035613&format=json&jscmd=data" - skills/43-wentorai-research-plugins/skills/literature/search/open-library-api/SKILL.md, line 73
curl "https://openlibrary.org/authors/OL34184A.json" - skills/43-wentorai-research-plugins/skills/literature/search/open-library-api/SKILL.md, line 76
curl "https://openlibrary.org/search/authors.json?q=hinton" - skills/43-wentorai-research-plugins/skills/literature/search/open-library-api/SKILL.md, line 79
curl "https://openlibrary.org/authors/OL34184A/works.json?limit=20" - skills/43-wentorai-research-plugins/skills/literature/search/open-library-api/SKILL.md, line 134
resp = requests.get(f"{BASE_URL}/search.json", params=params) - skills/43-wentorai-research-plugins/skills/literature/search/open-library-api/SKILL.md, line 156
resp = requests.get( - skills/43-wentorai-research-plugins/skills/literature/search/open-library-api/SKILL.md, line 171
resp = requests.get(
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/'open-library-api' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'open-library-api' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named open-library-api 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 "$d" checkout --quiet '8684584e7d1127940f018157d2c579974fae8f79' -- 'skills/43-wentorai-research-plugins/skills/literature/search/open-library-api' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'skills/43-wentorai-research-plugins/skills/literature/search/open-library-api' ~/.agents/skills/'open-library-api' && 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/'open-library-api' ~/.claude/skills/'open-library-api' (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 |