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paper-lookup

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 mkurman/zorai (GitHub) · research · 327 stars · scanned at commit 8ea1fc3

Search 10 academic paper databases via their REST APIs to find research papers, preprints, and scholarly articles. Covers biomedical literature (PubMed, PMC full text), preprint servers (bioRxiv, medRxiv, arXiv), multidisciplinary indexes (OpenAlex, Crossref, Semantic Scholar), open access aggregators (CORE, Unpaywall). Use this skill whenever the user wants to search for research papers, find citations, look up articles by DOI or PMID, retrieve abstracts or full text, check open access availab…

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/'paper-lookup' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'paper-lookup' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named paper-lookup already exists — not replacing it' >&2; false; else d=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/mkurman/zorai' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet '8ea1fc3ae126b6e103b8508bacd8f5aa60b6f4ad' -- 'skills/scientific-skills/paper-lookup' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'skills/scientific-skills/paper-lookup' ~/.agents/skills/'paper-lookup' && 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/'paper-lookup' ~/.claude/skills/'paper-lookup' (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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