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openalex-literature-search

97 / 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 ma-compbio-lab/SkillFoundry (GitHub) · research · 44 stars · scanned at commit 4a8cc0c

Use this skill to run fast literature triage against OpenAlex when you need public paper metadata, citation-linked context, and structured JSON output. Do not use it when you need full text, proprietary databases, or offline execution.

Works with any agent that supports SKILL.md skills.

What this skill can do

Install

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

if [ -e ~/.agents/skills/'openalex-literature-search' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'openalex-literature-search' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named openalex-literature-search already exists — not replacing it' >&2; false; else d=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/ma-compbio-lab/SkillFoundry' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet '4a8cc0cd9f923cde47a7f542d4a84b92bbabc59f' -- 'skills/scientific-knowledge/openalex-literature-search' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'skills/scientific-knowledge/openalex-literature-search' ~/.agents/skills/'openalex-literature-search' && 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/'openalex-literature-search' ~/.claude/skills/'openalex-literature-search' (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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