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paper-lookup

skill Science, research & learning

Searches 18 scholarly APIs for papers, preprints, citations, open-access full text, repository records, and journal OA status, and returns results with reproducible provenance. Covers PubMed, PMC, Europe PMC, bioRxiv, medRxiv, arXiv, OpenAlex, Crossref, Semantic Scholar, CORE, Unpaywall, OpenCitations, PubTator3, Zenodo, Figshare, ROR, BioStudies, and DOAJ. Use when searching for papers, citations, DOI/PMID/arXiv lookups, abstracts, full text, open-access PDFs, preprints, citation graphs, author publications, biomedical entity annotations, deposited records (Zenodo, Figshare, BioStudies), institution ROR IDs, or any scholarly literature query. Triggers on mentions of any supported database or requests like "find papers on X", "look up this DOI", "who cites this paper", or "get me the PDF".
Description from the SKILL.md front matter.

Install

GitHub CLI v2.90+ (Copilot by default)
gh skill install K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills paper-lookup
For Claude Code
gh skill install K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills paper-lookup --agent claude-code
For Codex
gh skill install K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills paper-lookup --agent codex

Commands follow each host's documentation (Any Agent Skills host (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, Copilot…) docs). gh skill needs GitHub CLI 2.90 or later and is in public preview.

Listed from K-Dense Inc.'s catalog, not reviewed by us. Read the source before installing.

Catalog
Scientific Agent Skills (K-Dense)
Author
K-Dense Inc.
Source code
K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills
License
MIT
Repository stars
52,795 for K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills (the whole catalog repo)
Version
2.4
Added to catalog
Not tracked for this source
Last change
2026-10-19 (last push to the repo)

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