literature-search-openalex

80 / 100 · Low risk

Fine to try. Some of what it can do is expected: a research skill usually looks things up on the internet.

By franklee16/academic-research-skills (GitHub) · research · 234 stars · scanned at commit 9a4b2db

Query the OpenAlex scholarly database for research papers, authors, institutions, topics, sources, publishers, funders, geo-locations, and keywords. Use when searching academic papers, resolving DOIs, downloading open-access PDFs, finding an author's publications, aggregating bibliometric data (citation counts, h-index, impact factor), exploring the research taxonomies, or performing DOI lookups.

Works with any agent that supports SKILL.md skills.

What this skill can do

Runs commands on your computer

The author does not mention this.

Found in 2 places.

science-skills/literature_search_openalex/SKILL.md, line 33printf "Enter OpenAlex API key (typing hidden): " && read -s key && echo && echo "OPENALEX_API_KEY=$key" >> "ENV_FILE" && echo "Saved."
science-skills/literature_search_openalex/SKILL.md, line 133uv run scripts/openalex_cli.py resolve authors "Geoffrey Hinton"

Connects to the internet

The author does not mention this. Expected for a research skill.

Found in 2 places.

science-skills/literature_search_openalex/scripts/openalex_cli.py, line 142resp = _PDF_CLIENT.fetch(full_url, max_retries=max_retries)
science-skills/literature_search_openalex/scripts/openalex_cli.py, line 144resp = _API_CLIENT.fetch(full_url, max_retries=max_retries)

Reads your saved credentials, such as SSH keys or .env files

This is disclosed by the author in the skill's SKILL.md or README.

Found in 1 place.

science-skills/literature_search_openalex/scripts/openalex_cli.py, line 526dotenv.load_dotenv(os.path.expanduser("~/.env"))

Install

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

if [ -e ~/.agents/skills/'literature-search-openalex' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'literature-search-openalex' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named literature-search-openalex already exists — not replacing it' >&2; false; else d=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/franklee16/academic-research-skills' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet '9a4b2db21fc4b217136ae4a0e6faad42d179ca03' -- 'science-skills/literature_search_openalex' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'science-skills/literature_search_openalex' ~/.agents/skills/'literature-search-openalex' && 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/'literature-search-openalex' ~/.claude/skills/'literature-search-openalex' (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
2026-11-07	`9a4b2db`	80